While poking around on Instagram I found a picture of what looked like a drab green military-spec Mercedes-Benz G-Class that had been recently delivered to the forces fighting on the front lines of Ukraine. The @future_Ukraine account labeled the vehicle in question not as the much-beloved Mercedes Geländewagen, instead it was called out as a […]
Marisa Merliss and her husband Mike waited almost eight years to have children. The couple had big careers — Marisa was a professional dancer and pediatric nurse before becoming a fitness instructor and Mike is a Broadway performer. After two and half years of trying, Marisa got pregnant with a little girl they nicknamed “She-ra.” Marisa […]
Britain’s Queen Camilla will lead members of the British royal family at a service of thanksgiving for the late King Constantine of Greece. Britain’s King Charles, who is being treated for cancer, will miss the service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in honour of his close friend and second cousin Constantine II, the former […]
Damon Goodrich, 51, of Kansas City has been sentenced to 66 years in prison after being convicted in the 2023 killing of his girlfriend and her cousin. Goodrich was found guilty by a jury in November and sentenced on Feb. 20 to 30 years on each conviction of second-degree murder and three years on each […]
A Kentucky state lawmaker and 2018 winner of the television competition Survivor had to hastily scrap a proposed measure that – if approved – would have unintentionally legalized sex between first cousins. After correcting the gaffe within a day, Nick Wilson – a Republican representative in Kentucky’s house of representatives – expressed hope that the […]
A 32-year-old man accused of raping his 13-year-old cousin said he had been in a “relationship” with her since August, Oklahoma police say. The man told police he was “in love” with the victim and “believes they should be able to continue their relationship,” Tulsa police wrote in a Jan. 16 Facebook post. McClatchy News […]
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A welfare check led to a grim discovery inside a Mississippi home. Officers found the body of a 4-year-old in a closet and arrested a family member who a parent said had been taking care of the child, Greenville police said in a Jan. 8 news release. Catrica Hardy, 34, is charged with manslaughter and […]
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, whose murder conviction in the 1970s killing of a teenager in Connecticut was overturned, is suing the lead police investigator in the case and the town of Greenwich for alleged malicious prosecution, civil rights violations and other claimed wrongdoing. Skakel, 63, a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Kennedy, was found guilty […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, whose murder conviction in the 1970s killing of a teenager in Connecticut was overturned, is suing the lead police investigator in the case and the town of Greenwich for alleged malicious prosecution, civil rights violations and other claimed wrongdoing. Skakel, 63, a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s […]
Takar Smith, 45, and Oscar Sanchez, 35, were both shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers in the first few days of 2023. Anderson’s death has only added to the outcry over law enforcement’s use of excessive force and brutality toward Black and Latino men. Dr. Melina Abdullah, who cofounded the Los Angeles chapter of […]