An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler pleaded guilty to charges of giving false information to law enforcement. She was given a suspended six-month sentence which will allow her to avoid jail and ordered to pay more than $17,000 restitution.
Toronto police have identified a man who plunged to his death from an eighth-floor balcony downtown late Wednesday in the city's latest homicide.Ryan Williams, 38, of Toronto, fell from a balcony just before midnight at a highrise in the area of Church and Shuter streets, police said in a news release on Thursday.Paramedics say they transported a man to a trauma centre. He was pronounced dead in hospital, according to police.Williams is the city's 24th homicide victim of the year.Police have sai
Chae Kyong An, 54, pleaded guilty in March to attempting to kill his estranged wife in October 2022, per authorities
He wore a blonde wig, blue dress and sunglasses, photos show.
A Toronto police constable has been charged with one count of perjury and two counts of attempting to obstruct justice, police said on Friday.The constable, 39, is accused of lying to investigators. He was charged on April 23 and is due to appear in court on June 7, the Toronto Police Service said in a news release.According to police, the constable allegedly started an "inappropriate personal relationship" with a member of the public during the course of his duties in December 2020.Then, in Jun
ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty ImagesAn economics professor at Emory University whose needlessly violent arrest was captured by a news crew on Thursday at the school’s pro-Palestine protest, is now facing charges for battery against a police officer.In a disturbing video captured by CNN, Professor Caroline Fohlin approached several police officers as they wrestled one protester to the ground, forcefully shoving their head into the concrete sidewalk. “Oh my God, what are you doing?” Fohlin asked,
A former youth worker convicted of having a years-long sexual relationship with a teenage boy in the 1990s spoke publicly for the first time since charges were laid, telling the judge she is "not the same person" she was 35 years ago. In October, Beverly Allard, 65, was found guilty of sexual exploitation of a minor. Allard did not testify in her own defence at trial. But on Friday, when given a chance to address the judge, she told the court that "the weight of carrying [her] untold story has b
The mother, Ashley Elizabeth Jones, allegedly threw bleach on her son and then followed him to the bathtub when he tried to wash it off
Jill Cornick, 82, is out of work for the first time in her life after being told the Clarks shop she worked in since 1956 in Dorset was closing.
Jonathon Candy, 42, fatally shot his wife, Lindsay Candy, 39, and three of their four children, ages 18, 14, and 12, on April 22, before dying by suicide
Nearly three decades after she held Reena Virk's head under water until the 14-year-old drowned, the woman convicted of murder in the case reportedly feels the crime is so "horrendous" that basing a TV series on it could traumatize Virk's family. According to a recent parole board decision, Kelly Sim — who was known as Kelly Ellard at the time of Virk's murder — has expressed "some remorse and victim empathy" while discussing the release of the new Hulu true-crime series Under the Bridge with co
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction with a ruling that shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the #MeToo era and left those who testified in the case bracing for a retrial against the ex-movie mogul. The court found the trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against Weinstein based on allegations that weren’t part of the case. Weinstein, 72, will remain in prison because he was convicted in Los Angel
“I often find myself awake at night thinking about the evidence and wondering what really happened to my son .....”
Marshella Chidester is charged in the fatal crash at the Swan Boat Club in Monroe County. She has been released on a $1.5 million bond.
Versa Mae Simmons has been charged with murder after Brayden Robertson was found "unresponsive" at the daycare, per authorities
"Although there are 4x more people... it is VERY quiet. Nobody is screaming, cars aren't honking, people aren't even talking."
WHITE ROCK, B.C. — Police say the man killed in a fatal stabbing attack in White Rock, B.C., earlier this week may have tried to chase down the suspect who stabbed him. Homicide investigators say witnesses told them that Kulwinder Singh Sohi, 26, was seen in a physical altercation with the suspect before giving chase on the White Rock Promenade on Tuesday evening. Sohi was attended by emergency responders at the scene after the attack but died from his injuries. Integrated Homicide Investigation
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson argued with Donald Trump’s attorney about why presidents should face criminal liability.
Twyla Stallworth, 40, sued the Andalusia, Alabama police department claiming an officer assaulted her in her home after she called the cops.
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Family members of a Saskatchewan man who was shot by his lover told court they will never understand why he was killed by the former Mountie. Bernie Herman, 55, was convicted in January of manslaughter in the death of 26-year-old Braden Herman. The two men are not related. Braden Herman's naked body was found in 2021 in a park on the outskirts of Prince Albert. Bernie Herman testified that he fired the gun that killed Braden Herman but said he was provoked into a split-sec
Police allege a 36-year-old man from Tweed, Ont., took a taxi to a rural part of nearby Madoc, stabbed his driver, stabbed a man and a woman inside a home, and fled in a stolen vehicle before being found, arrested and charged.In a news release, Ontario Provincial Police said the attacks happened Wednesday between 11:30 p.m. and midnight.The accused took the taxi to McCann Road in Eldorado, about 50 kilometres north of downtown Belleville, police said.He then allegedly stabbed the 59-year-old dri
