Calling allegations that a Hawaii couple stole identities of dead babies for unknown reasons unique, a U.S. judge on Monday upheld a previous ruling to detain the pair without bail. According to prosecutors, Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison are the real names of the couple who have been …
Read More »Police arrest suspected “old man bandit” bank robber
Police have arrested a man they say is responsible for a string of bank robberies in Maryland. Authorities had dubbed the suspect the “old man bandit” — and the man they say is responsible has a 45-year history of robbing banks. Steven Gregory Gass, 67, has been charged with several …
Read More »Wanda Palmer awakens from two
Charleston, West Virginia — A West Virginia man has been charged with trying to kill his sister, who recently awakened from a two-year coma and identified him as her attacker, authorities said. News outlets reported that Wanda Palmer was found unconscious with serious head injuries at her home in Jackson …
Read More »Crime Without Punishment: Homicide clearance rates are declining across the U.S. Baltimore’s is down to 42%.
Baltimore — Baltimore has seen so much pain, with more than 1,500 people killed in the past five years. More than half of those killings remain unsolved. WJZ, in collaboration with CBS News, is examining a crime often going without punishment in our country. The national homicide clearance rate is at an …
Read More »Mass shooting in Harlem leaves star college basketball player dead, eight others wounded
An early-morning shooting Monday at a gathering in Harlem left a star college basketball player dead and eight other people wounded, New York City police said. Officers responded about 12:40 a.m. to reports of a shooting on a footpath along the FDR Drive and found five people shot, police said, …
Read More »Man says he was wrongly jailed for 17 days after American Airlines falsely identified him as a burglary suspect
An Arizona man alleged this week that he was wrongly jailed for 17 days after American Airlines falsely identified him as a burglary suspect to police. In his lawsuit, passenger Michael Lowe said he endured more than two weeks of an “unending nightmare” in a New Mexico jail as a …
Read More »Vyvianna Quinonez gets 15 months in prison for punching Southwest flight attendant, breaking her teeth
A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face during a flight, breaking her teeth, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Vyvianna Quinonez was also ordered Tuesday by the federal judge in San Diego to pay nearly $26,000 in restitution and a $7,500 …
Read More »2 killed, 7 wounded in mass shooting outside a Chicago McDonald’s
A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and seven others wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Chicago late Thursday night. Police said it happened just after 10:40 p.m. outside a McDonald’s a few blocks from the city’s Magnificent Mile shopping district. One of the eatery’s windows …
Read More »Suspect in Dave Chappelle attack pleads not guilty to several misdemeanor charges
The man accused of attacking comedian Dave Chappelle onstage at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl arena is facing several misdemeanor charges, city attorney Mike Feuer said Thursday. The announcement comes hours after officials said the 23-year-old suspect, identified as Isaiah Lee, would not face felony charges. Lee is charged with battery, …
Read More »Escaped inmate Casey Cole White threatened to kill his ex
The U.S. Marshals Service said Wednesday that it is working to protect the ex-girlfriend of Casey Cole White, the capital murder suspect who escaped an Alabama jail last Friday after allegedly receiving help from corrections official Vicky White. The Service said in a statement that Casey Cole White threatened in …
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