Sammantha Allen, 29, was convicted of first-degree murder and four counts of child abuse in the 2011 killing of her 10 year old cousin, Ame Deal. Allen was sentenced to death this Monday after she punished her 10-year-old cousin by locking the young girl in a box where she suffocated and died.. ...Read Full Story
The manufacturer of the ride that malfunctioned at the Ohio State Fair in July noted the deadly incident was caused by “excessive corrosion.” The Fire Ball ride collapsed on a swing up, killing one person and injuring several others.. ...Read Full Story
Taylor Swift will soon speak out about an alleged sexual assault as she is expected to testify in a civil case filed by a Denver disc jokey who claims he lost his job after Swift accused him of groping her backstage at one of her concerts in 2013 . David Mueller. the accused, maintains that Swift has falsely accused him of touching her during a meet-and-greet.. ...Read Full Story
A late summer tornado ripped through downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma injuring dozens of people. The rare occurance ripped apart businesses and other buildings in the downtown area causing for big time clean up. . ...Read Full Story
The potential jumper on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge that caused the bridge to shut down for half the day, voluntarily stepped off the ledge and into police custody. The 30 year old man stayed on the ledge of the lower level for 5 hours as police attempted to talk to him. . ...Read Full Story
The US Air Force tested an intercontinental ballistic missile days after North Korea conducted its own ICBM test. It was not meant to be a response to the recent North Korean test on Friday. The test indicated that the missile possibly has the range to hit major US cities. . ...Read Full Story
A potential jumper is on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge during the Wednesday morning rush hour. The lower level of the highly trafficked, Staten Island-bound bridge is completely closed due to police activity. . ...Read Full Story
The Massachusetts teenager who took his own life after being persuaded to in text messages from his girlfriend has caused a stir in the legal field, and is posing problematic when it comes to sentencing. The boy’s aunt is asking for 20 years behind bars for the now 20 year old, but the woman’s father will ask that his daughter be spared prison time. Michelle Carter is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday after being found guilty in June of involuntary manslaughter.. ...Read Full Story
48-year-old Michael Jarvis fatally shot Dr. Todd Graham, an Athens, Illinois, last Wednesday outside a Mishawaka medical center. It’s reported that the shooting came just two hours after Graham refused to prescribe highly addictive painkillers to Jarvis’ wife during an appointment. . ...Read Full Story
In record breaking fashion, financier, Anthony Scaramucci came and went as the White House communications director. After threatening “to fire everybody” he was let go ten days after starting.. ...Read Full Story
Due to the ongoing opioid crisis plaguing the nation, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said that detoxing when pregnant thought to be harmful should now be considered. In 2012, an estimated 21,732 babies were born addicted to opioids every 25 minutes, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. . ...Read Full Story
An Ohio factory owner proclaims she has blue-collar jobs available at her company, but can’t seem to fill positions because so many candidates fail drug tests. As a small business owner, she cannot take the chance to have anyone impaired running that crane, or working 40 feet in the air. Four out of 10 applicants otherwise qualified to be welders, machinists and crane operators will fail a routine drug test. . ...Read Full Story
In New Haven, Connecticut, a single mother of four who sought refuge in a church to avoid deportation. Nury Chavarria, who is originally from Guatemala and has been living in the United States for 24 years, and authorities say she will be able to stay with her family in the United States. . ...Read Full Story
The argument that failing to complete a course of antibiotics could fuel the rise of antibiotic resistance has little evidence. In fact its quite the opposite, a group of UK researchers say that completing a course of antibiotics may instead increase the risk of resistance.. ...Read Full Story
A Facebook user posted a video of him and his friend(s) dragging a shark they found on a rope while the shark trashes through the waves. The Facebook user says the shark was already dead when they found him.. ...Read Full Story
President Donald Trump has bi-passed media to announce on Twitter a potential Transgender military ban, just a day after the senate passed a vote on healthcare reform. With public out cry of equal rights, it’s uncertain if the ban will even be constitutional.. ...Read Full Story
A three-month old killer whale, born in the San Antonio Seaworld was the last to be born in captivity at. She died Monday after serious health problems. Over 40 orcas have died premature deaths at Seaworld.. ...Read Full Story
A permanent US resident will face deportation back to her native Latvia after dodging murder and manslaughter charges for intentionally drowning her fiance in the Hudson River by tampering with his kayak in a plot to collect on his life insurance. Angelika Graswald, 37, now faces as little as 1 1/3 to 4 years behind bars after pleading guilty Monday to the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.. ...Read Full Story
Senator John McCain will return to the Senate on Tuesday in time to begin debate on proposed healthcare legislation. His return comes after a Monday night announcement that McCain has been home in Arizona following a brain tumor diagnosis.. ...Read Full Story
Two women have enlisted as the first female candidates seeking to join the Navy’s special operations teams. Up until January 2016, women weren’t allowed to serve in combat roles, including special SEALs and SWCC.. ...Read Full Story
Ryan Florez thought a Starbucks was would an easy target to rob and tried the cafe in Fresno, California, wearing a Transformers mask. Good Samaritan, Cregg Jerri tackled Florez with a chair to break up the burglary. . ...Read Full Story
A Nevada parole board unanimously granted O.J. Simpson early release from the Lovelock Correctional Center. The former football star could be free as soon as October 1 after serving 9 years.. ...Read Full Story
A judge in central Tennessee is hoping to help repeat offenders “make something of themselves” by offering them a deal: reduced jail time in exchange for getting a vasectomy.. ...Read Full Story
A massive wildfire in Mariposa County triggered a new round of evacuations Tuesday as flames threatened power lines that feed Yosemite National Park, officials said.. ...Read Full Story
Senator John McCain, former Republican presidential candidate, has been diagnosed with brain cancer.. ...Read Full Story
The repeal and replace of Obamacare didn’t go the way Republicans expected and now they’ve finally bent the knee and are working with Democrats to make fixes to former President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law. Some Senate Republicans are not thrilled with the idea of bipartisan talks.. ...Read Full Story
New York and New Jersey’s bi-state transportation agency plans on seeking proposals to develop a master plan for the $10 billion renovation of John F. Kennedy International Airport. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said they’re accepting proposals from private firms for preliminary engineering and design work on the project.. ...Read Full Story
A destructive gang of goats spent nearly 30 minutes terrorizing employees at Kryptane Systems in Louisville, Colo. Monday. The goat just sat and banged on one side of the glass door until he broke it, and then he left and came back and decided to break the other side too.. ...Read Full Story
Two Republicans have already said they would not back the latest Obamacare rollback bill,. While the second bill collapses Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is thinking of maybe just repealing the 2010 healthcare law with no replacement.. ...Read Full Story
Over the weekend 10 people were fatally shot in Chicago, including an anti-violence activist and a 9-year-old. There’s been a surge of rash killings in the area with a spike in shootings in recent months, mostly related to gangs.. ...Read Full Story
Sexism and sexual harassment has run wild in the tech industry, but fear of retaliation is what holds most women back from coming forwards. Women have to chose to be subjected to constant sexual harassment or lose their business that they have a financial responsibility to.. ...Read Full Story
A 20-year-old man has confessed to killing four men who were missing for days. the man, Cosmo Dinardo made his confession to Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub. He told investigators where the bodies were buried on his family owned farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.. ...Read Full Story
The age of online shopping is here. Americans curtailed their shopping this May and June, with less spending at restaurants, department stores and gasoline stations. Despite a healthy job market retail sales fell 0.2 percent after declining 0.1 percent in May, the Commerce Department said.. ...Read Full Story
The U.S. Senate are expected to unveil a new version of the health care bill they want to replace with Obamacare. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will present the revised bill in a bid to unite disparate Republican leaders.. ...Read Full Story
Joseph Gargiulo was arrested last August when an FBI raid of his home turned up assault rifle parts, ammunition, incendiary materials and threatening handwritten notes to assassinate President Obama. He has pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of ammunition.. ...Read Full Story
Last year before the election, President Donald Trump’s eldest son agreed to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton. The emails were released by Donald Trump Jr. via Twitter, has been the most concrete evidence so far that Trump campaign officials knew of and welcomed Russian help to win the election.. ...Read Full Story
An illegal immigrant from Mexico snuck in the US seven times crashed while drunkenly speeding down a Nebraska highway. Nemias Garcia-Velasco’s bail has been set to $2 million for fear he might flee the country again. . ...Read Full Story
Leigh Ann Sepelyak allegedly set her boyfriend on fire Sunday morning following a heated argument in the basement of her parents home. The woman dosed him with gasoline before using a lit cigarette to ignite, then proceeded to use a bucket of urine, which the couple used as a toilet, to put out the flames.. ...Read Full Story
The FBI investigating the explosion of a pipe bomb outside a U.S. Air Force recruitment center in northeast Oklahoma. There were no injuries but damaged the front doors of the recruitment center.. ...Read Full Story
A fast-moving wildfire burned overnight through thousands more acres of steep terrain near California’s central coast, officials said on Sunday, as high temperatures and parched vegetation fueled dozens of blazes in the U.S. West and Southwest.. ...Read Full Story
An Edinburgh-based start-up has worked closely with Tullibardine Distillery in Perthshire to develop a sustainable bio-fue produced from the sugary kernels of barley that facilitate fermentation process in whisky. Biobutanol, the whisky based bio-fuel, will do it’s first test drive in Scotland. . ...Read Full Story
A rare rodent-borne illness, hantavirus has sticken five people in Washington state since February, three of whom have died. It is transmitted to humans from deer mice through contact with urine, droppings, saliva or nesting materials of infected rodents or by inhaling dust. . ...Read Full Story
A rare rodent-borne illness, hantavirus has sticken five people in Washington state since February, three of whom have died. It is transmitted to humans from deer mice through contact with urine, droppings, saliva or nesting materials of infected rodents or by inhaling dust. . ...Read Full Story
New York commuters are ready for a summer of delays after one of the busiest train hubs in America shuts down for extensive repairs. Repair work at Pennsylvania Station, the Long Island commuter rail, is due to begin next Monday and run through Sept. 1, leaving the roughly 600,000 commuters to find an alternate way into the city.. ...Read Full Story
The U.S. government proposed to reduce the volume of biofuel required to be used in gasoline and diesel fuel next year. Never in history has the EPA reduced the amount of biofuels required to be used. . ...Read Full Story
Rand Paul, Republican Senator in Kentucky,has urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans in the Senate to abandon their plans to replace Obamacare. He thinking the bill alone does not include enough for small businesses and is too similar of a model to the Affordable Care Act. . ...Read Full Story
More than 20 US states, now including Maryland, Delaware and Louisiana on Monday have refused to hand over voter data to a commission established to investigate possible voter fraud. The states have deemed the information unnecessary and violated privacy.. ...Read Full Story
Army veteran, Sergeant 1st Class Stephen Florentz, served in Vietnam and Saudi Arabia also contributed to his country in a bigger way.The retired vet left $2.25 million from his estate to the Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity, which means that about two dozen houses will be able to be built.. ...Read Full Story
President Trump was at it again on Twitter making fun of CNN and MSNBC. The senate takes a big pause in the health care bill to iron out some serious problems, a suicide bomber killed 14 people in Iraq, 28 people were wounded during a club shooting in Little Rock, and Bernie Sanders denies allegations of pressuring Vermont banks to speed up loan processes.. ...Read Full Story
Barely 24 hours after a monument of the Ten Commandments was installed outside the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, a man destroyed the monument by smashing his car into it.. ...Read Full Story
Monalisa Perez, 19, was charged on Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Pedro Ruiz, 22, who she had been dating for five years. Perez told police Ruiz had planned the stunt, which involved her shooting him as he held a book to protect himself from the bullet.. ...Read Full Story
With their health care bill facing a mounting opposition, Senate Republican leaders have decided to push off a vote until after Congress returns from next week’s July Fourth recess.. ...Read Full Story
A new island has popped up along the North Carolina coast, seemingly overnight.. ...Read Full Story
The family of Philando Castile, who was shot and killed an officer of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Police Department, has reached a nearly $3 million settlement with the city of St. Anthony Village, according to a statement from both parties.. ...Read Full Story
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to let President Trump’s immigration travel ban go into effect for some travelers.. ...Read Full Story
Japanese air bag maker Takata Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo and the U.S. on Monday. Takata claimed bankruptcy was the only way to safeguard supplying replacements for faulty air bag inflators linked to the deaths of at least 16 people.. ...Read Full Story
SpaceX one of its refurbished Falcon 9 vehicles to put up a Bulgarian satellite from Florida on Friday, then on Sunday, SpaceX launched another spacecraft for telecommunications company Iridium. This time, the rocket flew out of California.. ...Read Full Story
Johnny Depp was at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK when he made a reference about an actor assassinating the President, which peaked the ears of Secret Service. Depp was recorded saying “This is going to be in the press, and it will be horrible, but I like that you’re all a part of it.When was the last time an actor assassinated a President?” . ...Read Full Story
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that overturned the murder conviction of Brendan Dassey. His “forced” confession became a key subplot in the hit series on Netflix, “Making a Murderer.”. ...Read Full Story
Dash cam footage of Philando Castile shooting has been released. It took about 40 seconds for an ordinary traffic stop to turn fatal. Castile’s family is in shock over the footage.. ...Read Full Story
