Osceola, IA – An accused child rapist who was scheduled to plead guilty to charges that he sexually abused a 13-year-old boy was released from jail on Monday. Clarke County Attorney Michelle Rivera, 42, was arrested on Oct. 18 for being drunk in court, just moments before 23-year old Dennis Simmerman was scheduled to plead […]

Fresno, CA – An eight-year-old girl was killed on Monday evening after her mother made her cut underneath an idling train to get to her bus stop. The incident occurred at about 6 p.m. on Dec. 17 as the family was trying to catch a bus home, Joy Frances Collins, 44, reportedly told her daughter, […]

Woodridge, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) Corrections Officer Zachary Perry was killed in an off-duty crash with an alleged drunk driver on Monday evening. The incident occurred near Davey Road and Joliet Road just after 4 p.m., and involved two vehicles and a light duty-box truck, WGN reported. Corrections Officer Perry, 27, succumbed […]

Plant City, FL – A Hillsborough sheriff’s deputy killed three of his family members, including a child, early Wednesday morning before committing suicide in front of three other deputies. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday morning that the deputy popped up unexpectedly on the sheriff’s department’s main radio […]

Washington, DC – A federal judge declared that many of new restrictions that have made it more difficult for aliens to receive asylum on the basis of gang-relations or domestic violence are illegal. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan also ordered that those who have been deported due to the restrictions be returned to the […]

Chatham County, GA – Police and prosecutors are furious that a convicted gang member, whom a judge sentenced to 12 life terms plus 115 years in prison, was released by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Nov. 28 after serving only 25 years. Christopher Lashaw Murray, 46, was convicted of armed robbery in […]

Woodridge, IL – A Cook County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) corrections officer has been charged in connection to the three-vehicle crash that took the life of a fellow correctional officer on Monday evening. The incident occurred near Davey Road and Joliet Road just after 4 p.m., and involved two vehicles and a light duty-box truck, WGN […]

Manitowoc, WI – A Manitowoc County sheriff’s detective who helped convict Steven Avery for the murder of Teresa Halbach is suing those who produced the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” for defamation. The Netflix series focused on whether or not Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, had been framed for the 2005 murder of Halbach, […]