A New Jersey political consultant who had two hitmen kill a colleague for $15,000 was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison on Thursday. Sean Caddle, a 45-year-old former Democratic campaign consultant, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit murder-for-hire in the killing of Michael Galdieri, whose apartment was set on …
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A white Florida woman charged with shooting and killing her Black neighbor told detectives that she called the victim’s children by racist slurs in the months leading up to the slaying, according to an arrest report released Thursday. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, admitted to detectives that she called the children …
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Shots were fired near U.S. Border Patrol agents and first responders as they were helping an injured 4-year-old boy near the U.S.-Mexico border, federal officials said Friday. The incident happened about a half-mile east of the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego on Monday night, according to the U.S. …
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Authorities are currently trying to locate an inmate who escaped from custody in Kentucky this week. The inmate, Kyle Aaron Skaggs, is considered “armed and dangerous,” according to the Fleming County Sheriff’s Office. Skaggs broke out of custody in Lexington, the sheriff’s office said on Facebook, adding that he lived in …
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A Florida suspect in the deaths of three children and their mother was fatally shot by law enforcement after an hours-long standoff at the Slumberland Motel on Wednesday in Sanford, authorities said. Al Joseph Stetson, 38, killed the 40-year-old woman and her 21-year-old, 17-year-old and 11-year-old children in their apartment …
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A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for sexually abusing female patients, in a criminal trial that came after the university system made nearly $700 million in lawsuit payouts connected to the case. Dr. James Heaps, 66, has been …
Read More »Texas Gov. Greg Abbott used social media over the weekend to announce he would work to pardon a man only a day after that man was convicted of murder. Daniel Perry was found guilty by a jury in the death of 28-year-old Garrett Foster, who was among those demonstrating in …
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Five children missing from Washington state were found and rescued as authorities took their parents into custody in Mexico, U.S. officials said on Friday. The parents, identified as Edgar Salvador Casian-Garcia, 34, and his girlfriend, Araceli Medina, 38, became the first fugitive couple to appear on the U.S. Marshals Service’s …
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The fiance of Katelyn Markham — an Ohio art student who went missing nearly 12 years ago — has been indicted on two counts of murder in her death. John Carter, 34, was arrested Wednesday and remains in the Butler County Jail. The indictment against him was unsealed Thursday morning, …
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Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh denied killing his wife and son but admitted lying to investigators about when he last saw them alive as he took the stand in his own defense Thursday. Murdaugh, 54, is charged with murder in the fatal shootings of his wife, Maggie, 52, and …
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