The teenager who fathered a child by teacher Rebecca Joynes has told a court he had loved her but now realises the damage she has done to him. The youngster, identified only as Boy B and now aged 18, was groomed from the age of 15 by Joynes during a secret relationship with her while […]
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — “$100 was all it took to take Malik Madison’s life,” those were the words from the Montgomery County Deputy District Attorney. He was in court both this week and last week looking to secure a first-degree murder conviction in the death of 19-year-old Malik Madison. Ultimately, brothers KyJuan Fuller and Jakarius […]
A former Heathwood Hall Episcopal School student who faced up to 60 years in prison after being accused of sexually assaulting and kidnapping a 15-year-old girl at a party in 2020 was sentenced to probation under a plea deal, according to authorities and court records. Garrett Kennard, who denied the allegations, pleaded guilty last month […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state’s lengthy coastline. Critics said the measure made law by the former Republican presidential hopeful ignores the […]
A Miramar police officer will spend the next decade on probation after pleading guilty to child abuse earlier this week in a case where he was originally accused of having sex with a minor, court records show. On Wednesday, Jose Robell Hernandez, 29, accepted a plea agreement where he would be guilty of aggravated child […]
A Clayton man facing multiple charges in connection to a deadly house fire in March has pled guilty to lesser charges. Savon Anthony Davis, 30, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated burglary, according to Montgomery County Common Pleas Court documents. In March 2023 Trotwood police and firefighters were called to respond to a structure […]
Mar. 26—A man acquitted of murder earlier this year in a 2021 killing has pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and was ordered released from custody on Monday. A jury in January found Brandon Holloman, 30, not guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 41-year-old Michael McCoy at a Southeast Albuquerque apartment complex. But […]
Feb. 5—Six months after a jury failed to reach a verdict in his second-degree murder trial, William “Bill” Nofsinger has pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in a 2021 killing at a Southeast Albuquerque apartment complex. The plea clears the way for Nofsinger’s release from jail after nearly 21 months in custody at the Metropolitan […]
A man who police said was one of the shooters in a brazen daytime hit on a busy Daytona Beach road last year was convicted Wednesday of the lesser charge of manslaughter with a firearm. Jerome Henderson, 21, who listed an address in Jacksonville, was on trial charged with first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A once-prominent Atlanta attorney who fatally shot his wife in 2016 as they rode in an SUV pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to eight years in prison as part of a plea deal. Claud “Tex” McIver, 81, had been convicted of felony murder and sentenced […]
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Wander Franco is facing a lesser charge after a judge in the Dominican Republic analyzed evidence that alleges the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl and paid her mother thousands of dollars for her consent. Originally accused of commercial and sexual exploitation and money […]