CHARLESTON, S.C. — A former volunteer childcare worker at NewSpring Church in South Carolina, a megachurch that has multiple campuses, including in Anderson, Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, faces additional child sex abuse charges after initially being arrested and charged last November. According to reports, Jacop Hazlett was taken into custody last fall after being accused of […]
FLINT, Mich. — Four teens who had been throwing rocks off a highway overpass, and who were with a fifth friend whose rock struck a man’s windshield and ultimately killed his passenger, will be sentenced as adults, a judge ruled on Tuesday. He cited that the boys had repeatedly joked and laughed about the […]
CHESTERFIELD, Va. — The Virginia woman who broke into a family’s new home, wearing no clothes and claiming to be the devil, has been arrested and charged with assault and battery, malicious wounding and breaking and entering. The family is still traumatized from the incident as they believe the woman, who seemed “possessed,” wanted to kill […]
APPLETON, Wisc. — A Wisconsin man who was found guilty of attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child was sentenced this week, admitting in court that he sought to end the child’s life because he feared the baby would have medical issues like his other son. Manishkumar Patel, 45, was sentenced to 22 years in […]
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A Florida man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after allegedly killing his pregnant mistress. Jose Escalera, 41, was arrested after investigators connected him to the death of Tonia Wise, 23, whose body was found in a ditch in August. Wise, who was scheduled to have a […]
FLORENCE, S.C. — A South Carolina sheriff and police chief are requesting prayer after seven officers were shot in the line of duty on Wednesday when several deputies attempted to serve a search warrant in Florence. One officer lost his life after being struck by the suspect. “I would ask that you please put the […]
PHOENIX — A Muslim man who was arrested in June after allegedly being involved in a plot to attack a “draw Muhammad” contest in Texas has now also been accused of planning to bomb a shopping mall in Arizona and the 2015 Super Bowl. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 44, of Arizona, had been charged this summer […]
PASADENA, Md. — A Maryland mother is behind bars after a local pastor found an abandoned baby on the side of the road on Independence Day. Raymond Showell of Gethsemane Church of God told the Capital Gazette on Sunday that he and his wife were traveling home from church late Saturday night, not long before […]
NEW YORK — The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) reports that officials with the organization, in conjunction with over 50 law enforcement agencies in four states, rescued 16 teens—ages 13 to 17—from a life of sex trafficking surrounding the Super Bowl. “High-profile special events, which draw large crowds, have become lucrative opportunities for child prostitution […]