Crime

An Australian woman accused of serving poisonous death cap mushrooms in a dish that killed three of her four guests who ate it spoke Wednesday about the incident and detailed how she planned the meal. Prosecutors in the Supreme Court case in the state of Victoria say Erin Patterson, 50, …

A missing 14-year-old Tennessee girl has been found safe in the Louisiana woods, where authorities say she was left by a man who had picked her up from her home after the two met online. Alexander Materne, 28, drove the girl to his home in St. Rose, Louisiana, on Dec. …

The armorer on Alec Baldwin film “Rust” filed Tuesday to have her conviction for involuntary manslaughter overturned, days after the Hollywood star’s own trial over a fatal on-set shooting collapsed due to withheld evidence. Baldwin was holding a revolver during a rehearsal for the low-budget Western in October 2021 when …

UPDATE: Ladan Ali pleaded guilty to one count of bribery of a juror on Sept. 5, 2024. MINNEAPOLIS — Five people have been indicted for their alleged roles in the $120,000 bribery attempt of a juror during the Feeding Our Future fraud trial earlier this month.  During the trial, a juror was …

FILLMORE COUNTY, Minn. — A 35-year-old southeastern Minnesota woman faces over a dozen charges for allegedly trying to take the blame for her twin sister in a fatal Amish buggy crash. Sarah Peterson was charged Wednesday with 16 felonies, including criminal vehicular homicide, criminal vehicular operation and aiding an offender, according …

An 85-year-old man in Washington, D.C. was arrested for allegedly stabbing his 81-year-old wife to death after he refused to eat the pancakes she made, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Steven Schwartz is accused of fatally stabbing his wife, Sharron Schwartz, at their home Sunday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the …

A Florida man who launched an online fundraiser soon after his husband’s murder more than four months ago is now “considered a suspect,” authorities said Wednesday. Timothy Smith, 59, was found dead on March 25 during a wellness check a day after he failed to show up to work, the …

A man arrested earlier this month in California has been returned to Florida to face charges in the 1984 killing of a woman, authorities said. Officials say Donald Santini, 65, had been serving as the president of a local water board in a San Diego suburb when he was finally apprehended. …

Two men who admitted to cheating during a fishing tournament in Ohio were sentenced to 10-day jail terms, prosecutors said Thursday.  Jacob Runyan, 43, and Chase Cominsky, 36, were also required to forfeit Cominsky’s boat, worth an estimated $130,000, officials said. Both men’s fishing licenses were suspended for three years, …

Five staff members at a suburban Indianapolis school have been charged with neglect or failure to report neglect after a 7-year-old special education student was told to eat his own vomit, authorities said.  According to the Brownsville Police Department, video showed the incident and the involvement of the staff members. …