Crime

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 […]

A 39-year-old pro-Palestinian activist who admitted in open court to spray-painting political slogans on the statue of Winston Churchill in London’s Parliament Square has been acquitted of criminal damage by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. Caspar San Giorgi, also known as Olax Outis, faced no punishment for an act the prosecution said caused £7,000 […]

LeJames Norman offered no final words. When the warden at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, asked whether he wanted to make a statement, Norman shook his head. Minutes later, the 40-year-old was dead, executed by lethal injection for the murders of three people during a failed robbery two decades ago. A physician pronounced Norman […]

A news helicopter covering a deadly bus collision in Los Angeles plunged between two commercial buildings Tuesday evening, killing both crew members and a bystander on the ground in the Chatsworth neighborhood. A fourth person was rushed to a local hospital in unknown condition. The aircraft was NBC4’s NewsChopper4, operated by Angel City Air. It […]

Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has confirmed a breach of its driver records database, and the FBI is now investigating what appears to be a black market operation trafficking stolen license data. The extortion group ShinyHunters claims it downloaded more than 200,000 records from the state’s Driver and Vehicle Information Database, known […]