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Two sentenced in Canton woman’s burning death
  ZANESVILLE, Ohio — A judge sentenced LaFonse Dixon Jr. to life in prison without parole today for his role in the burning death of Celeste Fronsman. Muskingum County Common Pleas Judge Kelly Cottrill followed the sentencing recommendation the jury made on Oct. 22. The same jury found Dixon guilty on Oct. 17 of aggravated murder, aggravated arson and kidnapping. Dixon, 34, of Canton, could have received the death penalty. Cottrill called the case “horrific.” “Ms. Fronsman died a horrific death at your hands,” Cottrill said. “Your self-absorbed, anything-goes lifestyle led directly to her death.” Prosecutors said that on August 26, 2012, Dixon and two women drove Fronsman from Canton to Muskingum County, where they beat her, choked her and set her on fire. The brutality was retaliation. Prosecutors said Dixon thought Fronsman had snitched on his drug dealing. She lived for two more days after a motorist found her on Rt. 208 near Zanesville, wailing in agony and burned over 70 percent of her body.
  Katrina Culberson, 22, and Monica Washington, 25, who also were crack-addicted prostitutes who participated in the attack, pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, aggravated arson and kidnapping, and testified against Dixon. - (Black-on-white) - (Burned Alive!) |
SANDUSKY, OH - A man accused of raping a young Sandusky mother before killing her hand her two children has been found guilty. A jury convicted Curtis Clinton on rape and aggravated murder charges on Monday. Clinton, 41, was accused of raping and killing 23-year-old Heather Jackson before also murdering her two children, 3-year-old Celina and 18-month-old Wayne. The same jury that convicted Clinton on Monday will return to the courtroom on November 12 to begin the penalty phase of the case. During the penalty phase, the jury will make a recommendation to the judge as to whether or not Clinton should be put to death for his crimes. The judge will then make a final decision about Clinton's punishment. - (Black-on-white)
Robert Keckler somehow knew this day would come. "Might have surprised some people, but didn't surprise me," he said. The man who killed Keckler's 18-year-old daughter Misty is accused of killing again. Curtis Clinton, 41, is charged with strangling Sandusky mother Heather Jackson, 23, and her two children, Celina, 3, and Wayne, 18 months. The murders last Saturday happened six months after Clinton's release from prison for the death of Misty Keckler. In 1997, Keckler's body was found strangled in a bathtub full of water inside a Fostoria mobile home. Her hands and feet were bound with cord. Sandusky police say circumstance kept them from arresting Clinton for a rape that happened just four days before the murders. A 17-year-old accuser balked at pressing charges against Clinton. "The man deserves to die," Keckler said. "He should have died when he killed my daughter."
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 24-year-old Jacksonville man is charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend's 22-month-old daughter. Todd Howell claimed he dropped 
Almost 30 years ago William Potts, a Black Panther with his sights set on overthrowing the American Government, boarded a Miami-bound plane out of Newark Airport with a pistol and plane. He hijacked the plane and demanded that the pilots fly the plane to Havana. He thought he'd be greater as a hero by the Castro administration and trained in revolutionary military tactics. Instead, Cuba put him on trial and imprisoned him for at least 13 years. 
A Mississippi man was arrested in connection to the deaths of a 7-year-old boy, his mother and stepfather, after their bodies were found Monday.
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - Police arrested an HIV-positive man Saturday on charges he held his girlfriend and her son against their will, doused the woman with gasoline, and forced her to have unprotected sex with him. 48-year-old Glen Davis and the woman, identified as his girlfriend, got into an argument on Halloween. Police say Davis grabbed her by the neck, doused her with a can of gasoline, and threatened to ignite the fuel. The woman said he locked all the doors, disallowed any use of cell phones, and held a pair of scissors at her neck. The woman's son said that Davis also grabbed him by the neck and threatened to pour gasoline on him. Both victims said the man poured gas on the kitchen table and lit a fire. Investigators confirmed the table had been burned, and another fire had been lit with a pile of clothes by the front door. Some time after these incidents, as the woman lay in bed, she claims he demanded sex and refused to use protection. She said she begged the man to use a condom, but he refused. She said Davis forced her to have sex without protection 
INDIANAPOLIS - Court documents released Monday outlined a Tuesday home invasion on the north side. It paints a picture of a nightmarish home invasion, repeated rape, gunshots and robbery. It was early morning on Oct. 29 when, according to police, six suspects entered the family's home. Detectives said during the investigation it was discovered there was no forced entry but alluded to unsecured back doors that had structural issues. The suspects started in the parent's bedroom, yelling to give them money. That woke up the daughter and began a long, gruesome period of crime. Eventually suspects drove the mother to an ATM to get money, and while in the car she was sexually assaulted. The mother was also shot twice — once in the upper leg, and once in her foot while trying to escape. Meanwhile, in the home, the daughter was being repeatedly raped by multiple suspects. When the mother returned, the daughter was then forced to go to an ATM with another suspect. While in the car, the daughter told detectives the suspect "talked to her about previously attending North Central." The daughter told detectives the suspect "resembled someone she knew." Throughout the whole ordeal, the father remained in bed. Police say he has a medical condition that makes moving difficult. The suspects eventually left with all three of the family's vehicles, cash and belongings. Fingerprints led police to the three suspects: Alexander Dupree, Trae Spells and a person of interest, Michael Pugh.
Two Newport News parents were arrested and charged Monday in the death of their adopted 7-year-old daughter in April, a police spokesman said. Warrants were filed charging 31-year-old Terri Winslow Dennis and 40-year-old Pamela Travers Dennis, both of the 200 block of Gallery Court, with felony child neglect after more than a month-long review by police and the Newport News Commonwealth's Attorney's Office into the death of 
SHREVEPORT, LA - Jury selection has begun in the 1st degree murder trial of a Shreveport man accused of smothering his own son to death. Police say they found Rodricus Crawford's one year- old son, 
The Providence police have warrants for two men accused of viciously beating a 78-year-old man during an armed home invasion Saturday. Joel Valdez, 25, and Wilbert Richardson, 39, are wanted for the brazen attack at 122-124 Ontario St., detective Sgt. William Dwyer Jr. said Thursday. Two men forced their way into the third-floor apartment, where they pistol-whipped the tenant and then attacked his landlord as he tried to intervene. 
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RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. —The 36-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of beating a 
Joseph Walker, 40, an 18-year veteran assigned to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, fatally shot 
A judge on Monday ordered that two teens accused of setting upon a 
A man has been arrested on suspicion of attacking and raping a woman who apparently came to his home seeking a ride. Gregory Jeffries, 40, has been charged with aggravated rape. He is being held on $200,000 bond. According to police, the incident happened around 2 a.m. on Oct. 24 at a home in the 1600 block of Gregory Drive in the Frayser area. The pair got into an argument, police said, then that escalated into a fight. Jeffries hit her in the head and upper torso, police said, then forced her to the ground. He choked her and kicked her into submission, police said, then raped her. The victim identified Jeffries, and police arrested him at the residence.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of carjacking a woman, then raping her, police said. Michael Ellington, 27, has been charged with aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, theft and unlawful possession of a weapon. The incident began Saturday at an apartment complex in Horn Lake. Ellington carjacked the 22-year-old woman, then forced her to perform oral sex as he drove her SUV to Memphis. He then drove behind a business near Elvis Presley and Scaife just over the state line. He then assaulted the victim, drove back to Mississippi and told her to get out of the car. About 12 hours later, Memphis police spotted the vehicle at Millbranch and Winchester. Officers found two guns in the car.
A serial flasher has been arrested on suspicion of multiple counts of indecent exposure, police said Sunday. Shaquille Malik Thomas, 20, of Union City, was arrested Friday on suspicion of 11 counts of indecent exposure, according to Union City police. Thomas was identified as the man who exposed himself during a series of flashings between November 2012 and September 2013 in the area of Veterans Park and Mariners Park, authorities said. Thomas was arrested at his home. 
A woman was sexually assaulted by a man who pushed his way into her Lakeview apartment and told her, “Shut up, don’t talk, don't say anything.’’ The 24-year-old woman had been out with her boyfriend at a bar when she decided to leave for home around 4 a.m. Sunday. She walked home alone to her apartment building nearby because her boyfriend wanted to stay out. . Another resident let her in and she was walking toward her first-floor apartment when she noticed a man in the laundry room near her apartment. As she opened the door, she was pushed into her apartment by the man, who threatened her, then ripped her clothing off and sexually assaulted her. The man fled down the hallway and she called police. The woman was able to give a partial denoscription of the attacker, telling police he was black, between the ages of 30 to 35, 6-foot to 6-foot-3, with a scar on the left side of his face.
FELTON, Del. - Delaware State Police have identified one of two suspects in a Felton home invasion. Police say the suspects broke into a home located along Pin Oak Court in the Canterbury Mobile Home Park around 4 a.m. Saturday. Police identified one suspect as 30-year-old Delonzo Powell. Three women in their 20s were sleeping at the time. Police say one woman was hit in the head with a handgun. Troopers say the suspects demanded cash. When the victims could not produce the money, they ran away with one of the women's phones. Powell is also wanted by the Smyrna Police Department for a robbery that occurred in 2011. A second suspect has not been identified.
A man has been arrested after a brutal home invasion in which the suspects allegedly tried to cut off the victim’s finger and ear. Troy Joyner, 39, has been charged with especially aggravated robbery, aggravated robbery, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, theft of property $10,000-$60,000 and possession of a firearm during a felony. The homeowner was standing outside with an air-conditioner repairman when Joyner and another man approached them, officials said. They forced the men inside, then tied up the repairman. Then the suspects began pistol-whipping the homeowner, demanding access to his safe and calling him by name. One of the suspects jabbed the homeowner in the back with a knife, then tried to cut off his middle finger and an ear. 
Memphis police have arrested a man who allegedly set his girlfriend on fire Saturday night. Samuel Fisher, 64, has been charged with aggravated assault and aggravated arson. He is being held on $350,000 bond. According to police, the incident happened about 7:30 p.m. an area just south of the Mid-South Fairgrounds. Two people told police they saw Fisher pouring gas on the victim, then lighting a piece of paper on fire and throwing it at her. 
NEW YORK -- Police are trying to identify seven people caught by surveillance cameras after they allegedly ganged up on one man in Manhattan. The suspects are accused of beating the 23-year-old victim and trying to rob him outside the terminal Five club on West 56th Street just after midnight Friday. The victim was taken to St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in stable condition. 
LOUISVILLE, KY – Louisville Metro Police have arrested a man for a bank robbery on Halloween. The robbery occurred at the BB&T Bank, 2501 W. Broadway, at 11:16 a.m. on October 31. A man approached a teller and handed her a note demanding money. The suspect kept his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun while at the teller window. The next afternoon, LMPD arrested Jamie Antwan Green, 18, of Louisville. Green is being held at Louisville Metro Corrections on one count of robbery. According to police, Green admitted to a detective that he committed the robbery and that he used a juvenile as lookout.
Asher Vongtau was last seen early Saturday morning inside Lafayette Hall, where he does not live, after a fire alarm had sounded. A friend of Vongtau's told the paper that he had not seen Vongtau leave the building with other residents after the alarm went off. However, neither university officials nor emergency responders could say how Vongtau had ended up in the cramped space, estimated to be less than two feet wide. "The circumstances of how the student ended up in the space are unclear to us," university spokesman John Beckman told the New York Times.
British officials have voiced concern over the escape of a terror suspect who vanished after switching into women's clothes at a west London mosque. The Metropolitan Police say they're still trying to find 
A self-described “sadomasochist” remains in the Palm Beach County jail accused of raping and attempting to kill her partner during a night of rough sex, authorities said. Mia McCarthy was arrested on Oct. 25 and is being held in lieu of $55,000 bail. The 23-year-old woman is facing charges of battery, domestic battery strangulation, attempted murder and sexual assault. McCarthy used a “marital aid” to sexually batter the woman, the report states.
Nicknamed "Fat Leonard," the gregarious Malaysian businessman is well known by U.S. Navy commanders in the Pacific, where his company has serviced warships for 25 years. But prosecutors in court papers say Leonard Francis worked his connections to obtain military secrets by lining up prostitutes, Lady Gaga tickets and other bribes for a U.S. commander, in a scandal reverberating across the Navy. The accusations unfolding in a federal court case in San Diego signal serious national security breaches and corruption, setting off high-level meetings at the Pentagon with the threat that more people, including those of higher ranks, could be swept up as the investigation continues. A hearing Nov. 8 could set a trial date. Navy commander 
DAYTON — A teenager is being held in the slaying of a Michigan man in a shooting that happened inside a Leo Street apartment. Anthony Brown, 18, is in the Montgomery County Jail on multiple charges after his arrest Wednesday. Brown is the suspect in the Oct. 26 death of 42-year-old 
A suburban Philadelphia judge has allowed murder charges to proceed against four suspects accused of taking part in the slaying of a Chester drugstore manager. Four suspects in the shooting death of 40-year-old
A father and his partner have been charged with murder after the badly-burnt body of his 
A former Johns Hopkins gynecologist, Dr. Nikita Levy, might have surreptitiously photographed or recorded the examinations of at least 
MEMPHIS, TN - - A Mid-South man walked into a store and exposed himself, according to a police report. Clay Burks, 52, is being accused of showing himself in retaliation after being told to leave a local store. Apparently, Burks was originally asked to leave after causing a disturbance. The report characterizes Burks' reaction as an "act of defiance". After showing himself, police said the victim told him she would call police. Consequently, he was known to officers in the area. It is not yet known why officers knew of him.
OMAHA, Neb. — Terrance Hale, 30, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 
Attorneys for a soldier accused of kidnapping, raping and killing a Wilmington woman are asking a judge to transfer him from the maximum-security prison in Smyrna to a prison in Wilmington, where they say he will receive better mental health treatment. The judge previously ordered that 26-year-old Dwight Smith be transferred to the medium-security Wilmington prison, but Department of Correction officials objected, saying that Dwight Smith has a history of aggression and would present a safety and security risk at Howard Young prison. But attorneys for Smith say his current solitary confinement is taking a toll on him both mentally and physically. 
Jeffrey Eldon Miles Sr., 50, pleaded guilty to murder in general in Franklin County Court today in connection to an April 2010 killing. Miles was scheduled to go to trial next month for the stabbing death of 
One of two black men charged with murdering a couple at a Tulsa park was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole as part of a plea deal that allows him to avoid a possible death penalty. Jerard Davis, 23, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree "felony" murder linked to the Sept. 18, 2011, fatal shootings of 
A Vallejo man has been arrested and charged with murdering a man in Hayward in 2009 after taking exception to one of the victim's dogs sniffing at his leg. Dereak Turner, 24, shot and killed 
TERRELL – There is haunting new information about the terror that played out in Terrell. We now know police believe the gunman intended to kill at least two more people — if not three. Charles Everett Brownlow Jr.
Police arrested a second Loris man in connection with the sexual assault of a girl, who was 8 when the assault began in 2010 and is now pregnant. Kevin Maurice Jackson, 30, of Loris was booked and is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11. Damian Jazwuan Jackson, 20, of Loris was booked and is charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. The girl told officers that he had repeatedly raped her 
A Mississippi man has been accused of sexually abusing 
NEW YORK – Police are hoping surveillance video will help them find a suspect who they said raped a woman at New York University’s Catholic Center in Greenwich Village. NYU is warning students to be on high alert and to be on the lookout for suspect wanted in the attack. It happened early Thursday morning as police said a 24-year-old missionary was letting herself into the center. Police said a man shoved her through a door and raped her just inside the glass wall steps from the sidewalk. Investigators spent the entire day taking measurements and lifting fingerprints from the glass doorway. The victim’s boots, tights and other personal belongings were left strewn about the hallway along with items she was intending to use to cook breakfast for a group of priests. Police released surveillance video they show shows the suspect walking in the area around the time of the attack. He is described as a black man in his 20s with a muscular build. Police said he was wearing a dark grey sweater, dark jeans and an Ace bandage around his right hand. Investigators said the fedora-type hat was also dropped at the scene.
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PALESTINE, TX - Willis Demond Carwell, 32, was sentenced to a total of 375 years in prison. Carwell showed little emotion as the Judge read the jury's verdict. Carwell had earlier pleaded guilty to the assaults. The 
NEW YORK -- Police in Brooklyn are searching for a man who abducted a teenager from a bus stop and raped her, and they're hoping a sketch of the suspect will lead to an arrest. The incident happened in broad daylight around 8 a.m. in East Flatbush. The
NDIANAPOLIS - 21-year-old Michael Pugh had his first court appearance Friday morning. He is a person of interest in Tuesday's Meridian Hills home invasion. Pugh was arrested around the same time as 23-year-old Alexander Dupree and 18-year-old Trey Spells. Pugh faces a preliminary charge of serious violent felon in possession of a firearm. Dupree and Spells are both preliminarily charged with rape, criminal confinement and robbery in that home invasion. IMPD says these men 
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Accused killer Avondre Graham pleaded guilty to Second-Degree Murder in court. Police arrested then 17-year-old Avondre Graham in September 2012, three months after the victim was stabbed in broad daylight while walking her dog along Tuffy's Trail Victim
CHATHAM COUNTY, GA - The accused killer of a local firefighter returned to court Monday. Brandon Mackey entered an 'open ended not-guilty plea' but officials expect him to plead guilty at a later date in January. Mackey is accused of shooting firefighter
Portland, OR - Newly unsealed court documents in Oregon show a sledgehammer was used in the October slaying of a retired utility company executive. The records obtained by The Oregonian reveal 
FORT WORTH — A second man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the murder of a 70-year-old bread deliveryman and a convenience store clerk. Tyrone Pierre Thomas, 27, of Fort Worth was convicted of capital murder. The life sentence was automatic because the district attorney’s office did not seek the death penalty. Thomas was arrested for his role in the slayings of
ST. LOUIS - More than three months after a man was found shot to death inside his vehicle on the city’s south side, two men have been charged in his death. 
Auburn, Wash. — Kailen Hall, 26, is in jail for investigation of robbery in the second degree. 
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Police have arrested the person who they say assaulted a blind man on a Northwestern Philadelphia street earlier this month. The suspect Mustafa Guyton, was arrested this morning, and is being interviewed by police. Officials say a surveillance camera on a Germantown street corner captured video of the Oct. 2 aggravated assault on the 33-year-old man. Police say the man was walking east on a street just after noon when Guyton approached and struck him, knocking him to the ground. Detectives said the suspect then proceeded "to kick and stomp" the victim, injuring his face and head "as he lay helpless on the ground."
Its a not guilty plea for the woman accused of shooting an killing a Savannah teen. Adrienne Marie Jackson made that plea in a Chatham County courtroom Monday. Jackson is facing several charges, including Malice Murder for the shooting death of 
ASHDOWN, AR - A Texarkana man on death row for killing an Ashdown couple 16 years ago is getting a new trial. Timothy Howard was convicted in 1999 of shooting
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Prosecutors are filing additional criminal charges against a man accused of hitting two Army recruiters and dragging one of them under his SUV for over a half mile last month. Enrico Darius Taylor, 52, now faces two charges of assault in addition to three previously filed charges of Criminal Vehicular Operation. Each assault charge carries a maximum 20-year-prison term. Taylor stands accused of striking 
CLIFTON, Ohio -- A 22-year-old White man was shot in the abdomen early Tuesday morning as a pair of black robbers demanded belongings from him and his girlfriend, a student at the University of Cincinnati.
A Baptist minister was sentenced today to serve two years in prison for setting his front porch ablaze in a phony Chesterfield County hate crime attack that included racist graffiti he painted to deceive police. Olander D. Cuthrell, 42, a minister of music at Gospel Shepherd Baptist Church, told the judge he was ashamed and embarrassed for pouring a mixture of oil and gasoline across part of his family’s front porch and igniting it March 15 after becoming overwhelmed by financial problems. Minutes before the fire, he spray-painted the N-word on two sides of his rental house in the 7800 block of Little Ridge Court to divert attention from himself and bolster his claim of being the target of a racially motivated attack. 
SEATTLE — Darren Jerome Nelson, a 45-year-old man is in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the stomach after an argument inside the Union Gospel Mission Wednesday morning. Seattle police initially arrested an 82-year-old man, but later released him in the afternoon when he told them a 45-year-old man was trying to rob and assault him. Nelson's fiancee, Nicole Simper said Nelson was not trying to rob anyone. She said she saw Nelson get into a heated exchange with the 82-year-old man. She heard Nelson say some racial remarks to the older man. Simper, who is Caucasian, said that her fiance, who is African-American, never speaks like that. She said he must have been provoked. She then saw the 82-year-old shoot Nelson.