Crime

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In an “Dr. Phil” segment entitled, “Weatherman’s Real Life Hangover,” which aired on Wednesday, Zoel Kennedy (pictured above), the photographer who was involved in the sexting scandal with weatherman Geoff Fox (pictured below), came clean about the events leading up to the publicized messages that upended both Fox’s career and her relationship with her newfound […]

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Two of three Saginaw triplet brothers are likely headed to prison after they were convicted of several felony charges, Michigan Live reports. Deshawn Shivers and Juronn Shivers, both 21, were convicted of unarmed robbery and conspiring to commit that crime on Monday in a Saginaw, Mich court. SEE ALSO: Dear White People: You Don’t Decide […]

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Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore, 40, was convicted Monday of first degree murder for the 2009 murder of Florida lottery winner, Abraham Shakespeare, 43, after cheating him out of millions of dollars, reports the Huffington Post. “She got every bit of his money,” said Assistant State Attorney Jay Pruner in closing arguments. “He found out about […]

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Three teenagers will be charged as adults in the shooting death of a 22-year-old woman in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. SEE ALSO: South Africans Worry Over ‘Tata’ Mandela Kayla Peterson, 22, died after one of the teens shot her in the stomach as she stood on her front porch on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Falls. […]

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Joseph Memar, 65, of Duluth, Georgia, is nothing if not determined. Arrested June 28 for “criminal attempt to commit murder” against former friend and colleague, Ali Jabreilli, 59, Memar attempted to have the same man killed from behind bars. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports: An informant warned police of Memar’s plan to kill a 59-year-old […]

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Ophadell Williams (pictured), the driver who crashed a bus on the I-95 last year, killing 15 passengers, is sharing his feelings on being acquitted on manslaughter charges. SEE ALSO: Soledad Shares Reactions To ‘Who Is Black In America?’ [Video] In an exclusive interview with the New York Daily News Monday, Williams (pictured) said, “It hurts. […]

The former voice of Sesame Street’s Elmo, Kevin Clash (pictured), whose life has recently been undone amid several accusations of impropriety involving sex with minors, has been hit with yet another lawsuit. A now-fourth accuser has come forward and is accusing the former puppeteer of engaging in sexual relations with him while he was a […]

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After serving 11 years in prison for the 1994 murder of his 11-month-old daughter, Daron Duane Davis was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the murder a second baby daughter, reports WECT.com. In 1994, Davis beat his first daughter, Sondaria Davis, to death one month before her first birthday. Her mother was also charged […]

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John Burbine, 49, of Massachusetts stands accused of raping and sexually assaulting over 13 infants and children entrusted to his care, the youngest victim being 8-days-old, and videotaping his sick, twisted acts over the course of two years, reports MSNBC. Burbine had access to the children through child care services offered by his wife, and […]

Ronald Little (pictured) was sentenced to 30 years in prison after a diary he kept of his detailed sexual abuses towards children was discovered by police, the St Louis-Dispatch reports. The 65-year-old St. Louis resident pleaded guilty to 107 counts of child sexual abuse. Some of the victims were as young as age four and five. […]

As the city of Jacksonville, Fla., continues to deal with the shocking murder of 17-year-old Jordan Davis (pictured above) at the hands of overzealous gun collector Michael Dunn (pictured below), the “Sunshine State” has suddenly become a hostile environment for young Black boys who pose little in the way of a threat to callow individuals […]

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A complicated portrait of Jovan Belcher (pictured) has emerged in the days after he reportedly snapped, unloading nine bullets in to the Mother of his 3-month-old daughter on Saturday morning. Belcher allegedly dropped the weapon and fled from his home in upscale Independence, Mo., in his Bentley. Later, outside the Kansas Chief’s practice facility at […]