Crime

Jennifer Prudencio received a four-to-six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in the death of her three-year-old son, whom she left with two young brothers while she went drinking. The 28-year-old mother pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and three counts of reckless endangerment of a child, the Daily Mail reported in its account of the Massachusetts […]

The FBI confirmed it is investigating claims that the notorious hacking group ShinyHunters breached the bureau’s jobs website, stole personal data on current, former, and prospective agents, and defaced the portal with a mock law enforcement seizure notice, all in apparent retaliation for an FBI report about the group’s own criminal tactics. The FBI’s jobs […]

A 47-year-old Texas man sits in the Harris County Jail tonight, charged with capital murder after someone opened fire on a family vehicle Saturday night and killed a five-year-old girl riding in the back seat. Jeremy Porter was arrested less than 24 hours after the shooting, which occurred on Grant Road near Jones Road in […]

A former U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Utah faces federal charges after allegedly separating more than 300 mail-in ballots from his delivery load, then tossing them in a church parking lot dumpster, all within roughly 90 minutes of starting his shift. Not one ballot reached a voter. Damon Matai Seei, 34, of Payson, Utah, […]

Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl and four other substances, the Greenville County Coroner’s Office confirmed, putting an official stamp on what has become another grim chapter in America’s ongoing fentanyl catastrophe. The former child star and Scream franchise actress was 36 years old. She was found unresponsive inside a Greenville, South […]

A 28-year-old Kansas City woman will spend 13 years in state prison for the death of her one-month-old daughter, who was found with severe burns after being placed inside an oven in February 2024. The first-degree murder charge against Mariah Thomas was dismissed as part of a plea deal, leaving a lesser charge as the […]

A 74-year-old Maryland man fired his rifle from a camouflaged hunting blind in a Delaware field and killed a 39-year-old mother of five who was walking nearby with a man and two children. Walter Moorhead now faces three felony charges after telling authorities he believed Santos Maria Chilel Soto was a deer. Moorhead, of Salisbury, […]

Federal prosecutors charged three people in Los Angeles this week with stealing millions in taxpayer dollars earmarked for homeless services, money allegedly blown on a nightclub, a bingo hall, luxury vacations, and bribes for fake housing referrals. The cases are ugly on their own. But a House oversight lawmaker says they point to something worse: […]

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office and federal security forces stormed a fuel depot in San Jose Iturbide, Guanajuato, on September 17, seized 59 million liters of diesel, and declared it a landmark strike against cartel fuel theft. Within hours, the company that owns the depot produced permits, licenses, and nine years of operating history to prove […]

Federal agents arrested an illegal immigrant from Guatemala in Indianapolis on September 3 after she allegedly cast a ballot in a U.S. national election, a charge that carries the weight of a direct assault on the franchise reserved for American citizens alone. Helda Araceli Mendez-Merida had been living in the country under a final order […]