On Friday, Capitol Hill police arrested Uber driver Kyler Schmitz over a series of tweets he allegedly sent Missouri Senator Roy Blunt in the wake the Orlando shooting, including a promise to shoot Blunt “in the head” for “allowing someone to murder my loved ones,” NBC News reports.
Tragedies like the massacre at a gay nightclub Sunday morning in Orlando, Florida—one which has been named the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history—can render us simultaneously hollow and distended with emotions that have no name. If you want to, here is a place to try and name them.
Anti-immigration activist Chris Simcox, who co-founded border patrol militia Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (not to be confused with the Minutemen Project) in 2005, was convicted of two counts of child molestation in Arizona on Wednesday, Slate reports.
On Tuesday, Joseph “Rambo” Hunter, international drug lord Paul Le Roux’s former enforcer, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to murder a federal drug agent and a government informer. Before becoming a mercenary, Hunter served in the U.S. Army for two decades.
Mariam Dansoko, a three-year-old girl, was crossing the street near Yankee Stadium with her mother yesterday when she noticed an approaching car. “Mommy, the car is coming,” she said. By the time her mother turned around, the driver of the oncoming Nissan Altima struck Mariam, giving her injuries that later killed…
The person with the most necessary job in the world, FIFA’s chairman of audit and compliance, has resigned, because FIFA’s top officials on Friday passed a measure that allows them to fire auditing, finance, and ethics officers at will.
This week, police in South Carolina arrested a 65-year-old barber for allegedly brandishing a pistol after refusing to cut a man’s hair because he was black, the Associated Press reports.
Last night, tweeting British man Piers Morgan aired the first part of “Killer Women,” a new special that, according to Piers, will “chill your soul.” But which part of meeting a killer did Piers find most terrifying? That someone so young and so hot could be so murdery at the very same time.
On Tuesday, an attacker believed to have stabbed multiple people after crashing into a Macy’s store in Massachusetts was shot by an off-duty police officer, WCVB-TV reports. Authorities say two victims and the suspect have died.
On Sunday, a Democratic candidate for West Virginia’s state senate was brutally beaten in an attack he believes to be related to Tuesday’s primary election, The New York Times reports.
On Monday, a district judge in Arkansas permanently resigned from public office after investigators discovered more then 4,000 photos of naked young men identified as former defendants on his computer, NBC News reports.
More than half a century after he says police pressured him into confessing to a crime he did not commit, 81-year-old Paul Gatling has finally cleared his name. On Monday, the Brooklyn District Attorney fully vacated Gatling’s wrongful 1964 conviction for murder, a crime for which he served 10 years in prison, The New…
Police say disturbance at an Illinois Target initially reported as an active shooter situation was actually a man protesting the company’s transgender bathroom policy, the Chicago Tribune reports.
This week, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert finally admitted to sexually abusing teenagers when he was a high school wrestling coach in the 1970s, and he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for steps he took to pay off one of his victims.
On Wednesday, a former Tulsa deputy who fatally shot an unarmed, restrained suspect after mistaking his gun for his Taser was convicted of second-degree manslaughter, the Associated Press reports.
Responding to criticism after his officers handcuffed and arrested school children as young as 6 for failing to stop a fight, a police chief in Tennessee said on Sunday he was “so sorry this incident happened,” Mediaite reports.
On Monday, one of the five people prosecutors say former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert sexually abused filed a lawsuit claiming Hastert failed to pay off a secret $3.5 million dollar settlement, ABC News reports.
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty last October to one count of illegally structuring bank withdrawals, and will be sentenced to up to five years in prison by a federal judge later this week. But behind this technical-sounding crime is something truly horrific: According to the feds, the…
Authorities say marijuana “grow operations” were found at three of the four crime scenes where eight members of a rural Ohio family were murdered in “preplanned executions” this week, the Chillicothe Gazette reports.
In Manhattan, the NYPD will no longer throw you in jail for asking a fellow citizen for a little help. Wow—civilized!
