ABCNews.com(LEICESTER, Mass.) — Police in Massachusetts have arrested a suspect after he left behind at the crime scene Play-Doh that contained his fingerprints. The suspect was wanted in at least two other states and “is currently residing at the Worcester County House of Correction,” the Leicester Police Department said in […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man shot late at night by police while standing in his grandmother’s yard, absorbed seven bullets, not eight, according to the County of Sacramento coroner’s office. In an autopsy report dated April 27, three doctors concluded Clark took three bullets […]
Mark Makela/Getty Images(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) — Yale University has revoked an honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby more than a decade ago, joining more than two dozen other institutions that previously honored the comedian known as “America’s Dad.” Yale said its board of trustees voted to rescind Cosby’s 2003 honorary […]
Ocala Fire Rescue(NEW YORK) — Residents in a central Florida neighborhood have been forced to evacuate due to massive sinkholes that have formed over the last week. At least a dozen sinkholes have been reported in the Wynchase neighborhood of Ocala, Florida, about 80 miles northwest of Orlando, according to […]
Courtesy Piazza Family(NEW YORK) — Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday that he wants a judge to restore involuntary manslaughter charges against five fraternity brothers he claims had a hand in last year’s hazing death of Penn State fraternity pledge Tim Piazza. Piazza was a 19-year-old sophomore from Lebanon, […]
FBI(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — The combination of two key ideas helped break open the decades-old “Golden State Killer” case. One of which was a forensic pathologist’s insistence on making duplicate rape kits and the second was the use of a genealogy website to find relatives based on the mystery killer’s DNA, […]
J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS via Getty Images(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — A bipartisan committee investigating Republican Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens released a document knocking down his attempt to discredit a hair stylist who claims he allegedly coaxed her into having sex and tried to use partially nude photos of her to […]
iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Hackers infiltrated a small Massachusetts city’s school computers, then swiped the data only to return it for $10,000 in bitcoin. The Leominster Public Schools were broadsided when they learned of the extortion payment to regain possession of their pilfered data and email. Paula Deacon, superintendent of the school, […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A mysterious breakup may have sparked the “Golden State Killer” suspect’s anger against women, according to an investigator on the case. During one attack on July 5, 1978, the serial burglar, rapist and killer reportedly talked about a woman named “Bonnie,” while sexually assaulting another woman in […]
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In her first interview since she took the podium at the White House Correspondents’ dinner this weekend, Michelle Wolf defended her scathing jokes about politicians, the media and the press secretary, saying, “I wouldn’t change a single word that I said.” Over the weekend, Wolf received […]
