By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, medics and residents said. Israel’s forces also took over some ground in Rafah, a […]
The mother of Madeline Soto appeared in denial when Kissimmee detectives said her longtime boyfriend Stephen Sterns sexually abused the 13-year-old, according to case reports being used as evidence against him. The reports, obtained Friday by the Orlando Sentinel, detail the moments leading up to investigators arresting Sterns, 38, after finding a collection of child […]
Two Los Angeles mothers are at odds on opposite sides of California’s embattled criminal justice system: one grieving the loss of her two sons and the other trying to get her conviction for killing them overturned. Rebecca Grossman, a rich and powerful Los Angeles socialite, sped her Mercedes through a crosswalk and killed Mark Iskander, […]
A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson insisted Thursday that the body camera video from the Florida sheriff’s deputy who killed the Black Air Force senior airman and police radio audio support their assertion that the deputy went to the wrong apartment while responding to a domestic disturbance call that day. At a news […]
STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson said Thursday that the bodycam footage of the Florida sheriff’s deputy who killed the Black U.S. Air Force airman and police radio traffic from right after the shooting reinforce their assertion that the deputy was directed to the wrong apartment while responding to […]
Shanna Gardner, the ex-wife of slain Microsoft manager Jared Bridegan, wrote “good luck!” on a check written to the hit man she allegedly hired to carry out Bridegan’s murder in 2022, a witness testified during a Wednesday bond hearing. A Duval County, Florida courtroom heard testimony from several witnesses on Wednesday during a hearing to […]
A Monticello, Minn., man has been arrested and charged in last week’s fatal shooting of an off-duty Eagan and Eden Prairie firefighter who prosecutors say was caught in the crossfire between two groups that exchanged more than 60 rounds of gunfire in a south Minneapolis parking lot. Marquise Trevone Hammonds-Ford, 28, was charged in Hennepin […]
EUCLID, Ohio (WJW) — Authorities early Sunday issued a Blue Alert for a man who reportedly shot and killed a Euclid police officer in an ambush late Saturday night. Like the state’s Amber Alert system for abducted children, Ohio’s Blue Alert system is intended to quickly disseminate information on people suspected of killing, seriously injuring […]
In an odd end to a tragic tale that captured the attention of Beaufort County residents at the end of 2022, representatives of Michael Wilson’s estate agreed to pay $175,000 to the beneficiaries of Brenda Carman, according to final settlement documents filed in Beaufort County civil court on May 2. That payment constitutes Carman’s 25% […]
Roger Fortson’s girlfriend provided the video, obtained by PEOPLE, after authorities released body camera footage of the police shooting on Friday, May 3 U.S. Air Force via AP Senior Airman Roger Fortson A Florida law enforcement officer shot a U.S. airman multiple times inside his apartment, according to the officer’s body camera footage. Now, in […]
Days after Australian surfer Callum Robinson, his brother Jake Robinson and his friend Jack Carter Rhoad were discovered dead in Baja California, Mexico, Callum’s girlfriend, Emily Horwath, is speaking out. Over the last several days, Horwath has been using social media to memorialize her beloved Callum. “For holidays/birthdays, Cal and I always bought each other […]
An active-duty U.S. airman was shot and killed during a deputy-involved shooting on Friday, May 3. Roger Fortson, 23, was shot and killed by an Okaloosa County Sheriff deputy when, according to the department, the deputy was responding to “a disturbance in progress.” The Fortson family retained civil rights attorney Ben Crump who has accused the […]