North Carolina man charged with first-degree murder in 1990 New Jersey cold case after DNA breakthrough
Robert William McCaffrey Jr. was arrested Friday evening in Manteo, North Carolina, and charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and second-degree burglary in the 1990 killing of 27-year-old Lisa Marie McBride, a cold case that went unsolved for more than three decades before advan...
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Two fatally shot outside Washington State event hall as 200 gathered inside; suspect arrested on murder charges
Two people were found fatally shot in the parking lot of an event hall in Longview, Washington, on Saturday night while roughly 200 people were gathered inside the venue, and police arrested a 49-year-old Kelso man on two counts of first-degree murder after a vehicle pursuit and foot chase, the Long...
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Florida couple found dead in Wewahitchka home in apparent murder-suicide
A 40-year-old Florida woman and her 44-year-old husband were found dead in a bedroom of their Wewahitchka home on Monday, April 6, after a concerned caller requested a welfare check because the woman had not shown up for work. The Gulf Coast Sheriff's Department said the medical examiner's office in...
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Florida governor candidate Kevin Cichowski arrested on charges of battering elderly victims in Flagler County
Flagler County deputies drew their weapons and ordered a Florida gubernatorial candidate to the ground after two elderly people were found hiding in a bedroom, accused of being beaten by the man who wants to lead the state. Kevin Cichowski, 46, now faces a stack of felony charges, and it is not his ...
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East Bay journalist says Eric Swalwell's conduct toward women was an open secret among local Democrats
A veteran California political journalist who has covered Rep. Eric Swalwell since his days on the Dublin City Council says the congressman's alleged behavior toward women "was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democratic Party", and has been since shortly after Swal...
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Atlanta police arrest 14-year-old for murder after 12-year-old fatally shot inside home
A 14-year-old boy in Atlanta now sits in juvenile detention, charged with murder after a 12-year-old was shot and killed inside a southeast Atlanta home Saturday afternoon. The shooting happened, police told local media, while the two boys were playing with guns in a bedroom. Atlanta Police Departme...
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Former FBI most wanted fugitive pleads guilty to child sex trafficking of teenage girl
Donald Eugene Fields II, a 61-year-old man who spent nearly two years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of child sex trafficking. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced the plea, which carries a minimum sentence of...
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Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne sue New York over transgender care mandate that threatens fines and jail
A Catholic religious order that has spent more than a century providing free hospice care to the dying poor filed a federal lawsuit this week against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, charging that a state transgender-rights law forces the sisters to choose between their faith and their mission, or face f...
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Brian Hooker fell overboard during Bahamas arrest as wife Lynette remains missing, lawyer says
Brian Hooker, the husband of missing American woman Lynette Hooker, tumbled into the ocean during his own arrest by Bahamian police, just days after he reported his wife fell from their small boat and vanished in rough seas near Elbow Cay. His lawyer says he had to be rescued from the water by the s...
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Minnesota man convicted of first-degree murder after killing and mutilating his own mother in 2020 attack
A Sherburne County jury convicted 26-year-old Eric Leif Jordahl of first-degree murder Thursday for killing his mother, 62-year-old Rosalie "Rose" Johnson, inside their home on July 23, 2020, a case marked by details so disturbing they defy comprehension. The conviction carries an automatic life sen...
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