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Four (black) teens charged with attempted homicide, robbery of two (White) state lawmakers
   Four teenagers have been charged with attempted homicide and robbery of two state representatives late Tuesday night in Harrisburg, according to police. Jamani Ellison, 17; Jyair Leonard, 15; Derek Anderson, 17 and Zha-quan McGhee, 15, have been charged with attempted homicide, conspiracy, robbery, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering and carrying a firearm without a license, according to a news release issued by police in Harrisburg. House Democratic Caucus spokesman Bill Patton said that state Rep. Marty Flynn, D-Scranton, and state Rep. Ryan Bizzarro, D-Erie, were walking from the Capitol to the house they stay in when they were approached by their assailants. Police said one of the teens pointed a gun at the head of Bizzarro, moments before the suspects and Flynn exchanged gunfire. "Shots were exchanged between the suspects and the victim and the robbery suspects then fled the area. - (Black-on-white) |
The homeless man who allegedly stabbed two Boston park rangers on Boston Common, injuring one critically, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, his defense attorney said Wednesday at his arraignment. “He struggles every day to know what’s his reality,” said Shannon Lopez. Bodio S. Hutchinson, 34, was ordered held on $1 million bail after pleading not guilty in Boston Municipal Court to charges of armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and assault and battery on a public employee. Hutchinson has a history of bizarre and violent behavior, including incidents in which he has attacked and bitten people, court records show. The rangers used pepper spray on Hutchinson, but
PONTIAC - A Novi man who was convicted of murdering his 84-year-old neighbor while he was out on parole for another killing will spend the rest of his life behind bars. An Oakland County jury deliberated for a little more than an hour in September before returning its verdict against 47-year-old Peter Gerard Jones. The Detroit Free Press reports he was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the chance for parole — the mandatory term for first-degree murder. 
“They had been growing marijuana,” he said. “There was a very large pool table in the log house and it was covered with what people call a shake, when they trim plants, it was covered with that. And then I went out into the outbuilding and there was a full smorgasbord apparatus for drip irrigation, and marijuana specific fertilizers etc. etc,” he said.
HOUSTON - Homicide investigators have arrested a man believed to be responsible for last month's murder of a good Samaritan in east Harris County. Dondre Williams, 22, was arrested Monday morning and is charged with murder in the Sept. 12 shooting death of 
CHARLESTON COUNTY, SC - A Percy Street homicide on Friday afternoon was the result of a drug deal gone bad, according to Charleston Police. On Saturday, police arrested 19-year-old Ahshaad Owens and 20-year-old Phillip Jewel II, both of North Charleston, in connection with the fatal shooting. Police say Owens is charged with murder, armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime; and Jewell is charged with murder and armed robbery. Police say the pair, along with 19-year-old 
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., — Eyewitness News first brought you shocking video of a man being sucker-punched and knocked out cold on a Philadelphia street. “I have a fractured jaw.” Twenty-four-year-old 
GREENE COUNTY -- Leland Rodgers, 39, has been arrested on a charge of raping a minor in Greene County. Rodgers reportedly worked for the Miami valley Child Development Center, at the Springfield Children's Center. Mary Burns, president of the center's Head Start program, says Rodgers was a cook at the center and was never alone with children at the center. And the alleged victim was reportedly not from the center. Burns said the center performed the required background checks with the state Bureau of Criminal Investigations and the FBI. Those checks resulted in nothing that would lead center staff to believe Rodgers was capable of these accusations. Rodgers has been fired from the center.
HOUSTON – Police have named a suspect in the rape and robbery of a 91-year-old woman. A Crime Stoppers tipster recognized a surveillance camera photo and identified the suspect as 29-year-old Conard Hargest. He is charged with sexually assaulting the elderly victim on October 1 in southwest Houston. The suspect walked into the Creekbend Gardens retirement home and into the victim's apartment around 3 a.m. After assaulting her, he stole money from her wallet and fled.
Back in December 2013, when Jacoby Kindred was first charged with sexual abuse of 
CHAMPAIGN — Champaign police have arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with two sexual assault and abuse incidents at a Campustown apartment building. Paul Andrew Rouse, 25, who listed a permanent address in Schaumburg, was arrested around 6 p.m. Monday at his apartment in the 900 block of South Third Street. ...while in the residences committed acts of sexual conduct and sexual penetration against two victims by the use of force and knowing that the victims were unable to give consent.
WASHINGTON -- A former D.C. police officer who served as a pimp for teenage girls was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday afternoon. Linwood Barnhill pleaded guilty to two counts of pandering of a minor and one count of possession of child pornography back in June. He was arrested in Dec. 2013 after police found a missing 16-year-old girl in his apartment. In a plea deal, Barnhill was sentenced to seven years, which is two years less time in prison than the minimum recommended under federal guidelines. 
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The former mayor of Charlotte will be sentenced Tuesday in a federal corruption case that stunned North Carolina's largest city. In a deal with prosecutors, Patrick Cannon, 47, pleaded guilty in June to one count of honest services wire fraud, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Prosecutors have promised not to ask for a prison sentence of more than five years, but U.S. District Judge Frank Whitney is not bound by the plea agreement.
Federal prosecutors have launched a probe into the Newark Watershed Authority for actions it took while chaired by the city’s then-mayor Cory Booker, sources said. The inquiry centers on alleged misappropriation of taxpayer funds first uncovered by the New Jersey Comptroller’s Office and a local watchdog group. While Booker — who is now a US senator — served as the agency’s ex-officio chairman between 2007 and 2012, his former law firm, Trenk, DiPasquale, Webster, raked in $1 million in legal fees. Elnardo Webster, Booker’s 2006 campaign treasurer, served as the authority’s general counsel.
CINCINNATI —The jury has reached a verdict in Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter’s case, but only on one count. The jury could not reach a verdict on eight of the nine counts, but found Hunter guilty on one count of having an unlawful interest in a public contract. Hunter was originally charged with nine felonies, including tampering with evidence, forgery, theft in office, misuse of a credit card and having an unlawful interest in a public contract. She faced up to 13 years in prison if convicted on all charges. The jury was comprised of 10 women and two men. Three of the jurors are African-American.
Demetrice Carson often posed with money and guns in the photos he posted on Facebook. But it was a written post -- just two sentences -- that landed the 25-year-old in jail on Thursday. Chattanooga police say Carson used Facebook to ask that someone kill 
Tragically, 
A convicted murderer beat his mother to death during an argument, just two days after he was released from prison, authorities said. 
A 39-year-old North Memphis man has been convicted of raping an 
OKLAHOMA CITY – Authorities say they have arrested a man after he allegedly attacked two people at hotels in Oklahoma City. On Oct. 11, officers were called to the Spring Hills Marriott Hotel after learning about a sexual assault. The alleged victim, an employee of the hotel, told police that she was in a room when 23-year-old Keaunte Clark came inside.
A 28-year-old man on parole for armed robbery was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail today after being accused of attacking robbing a woman in the Lakeview neighborhood, authorities said. Ozzie Scott, of the 7100 block of South Cornell Avenue, was charged with aggravated battery causing bodily harm and attempted armed robbery, police said. He was also wanted on a warrant. The woman later told police that Scott tried to rape her, and told her to be quiet as she struggled to take out her mace.
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee - Police arrested a man who is accused of raping a homeless woman inside a homeless camp. Christopher Turner, 41, of Chattanooga is facing one count of rape along with assault and retaliation against a judge. Saturday night, offices were called to the Chattanooga Community Kitchen to meet with an alleged female rape victim. When they arrived, the woman told them that Turner raped her inside a homeless camp near the 600 block of East 10th street. 
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — A Henrico County art teacher was arrested and charged with taking indecent liberties with someone less than 18 years old after an incident at Highland Springs High School. Police arrested Tessa Monique Hairston, 31, on Friday.
Iesah James, 30, of the 3100 block of West Arthington, faces two felony counts of aggravated battery to a transit employee, according to a statement from Chicago Police. Shortly after 11 p.m., James threw a rock at the 49-year-old man driving the bus in the 700 block of North Austin, police said. The rock hit the man in the shoulder and she then used a Taser on the bus driver under his arm.
Toronto police have released a security camera image of another person of interest in the shooting deaths last week of 
An associate of the Rev. 
An NBC News crew was ordered under mandatory quarantine for possible Ebola infection after the network’s chief medical correspondent was allegedly spotted on a food run to a New Jersey restaurant, according to a report. Dr. Nancy Snyderman and her crew had agreed to a voluntary quarantine when they returned to the United States from West Africa last week following their exposure to a cameraman who contracted the deadly virus. Ebola-stricken cameraman 
Knab was sentenced after pleading guilty to indecent assault for molesting 
Police say a man who stole $42 dollars and shot a Caseyville business owner will spend 25 years in prison. Phillip Smith, 33, was arrested for robbing the Ferguson Television and Satellite store in November 2013. During the robbery, Smith shot 63-year-old business owner
A Chicago man is scheduled to appear in court Friday accused of sexually assaulting a teen earlier this month in a west suburban forest preserve, authorities said. Kevin Tillman, 30, of the 4900 block of West Adams Street in the city's Austin neighborhood, was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and unlawful restraint, according to a statement from the Cook County sheriff’s office.
A man and a woman have been charged with sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman Thursday in their apartment after the victim knocked on their door asking to borrow a phone charger. Joel Johnson, 37, and Eve Alexander, 35, both of the 200 block of East 78th Street, were both charged Friday with aggravated criminal sexual assault. Prosecutors said the couple forced themselves onto the victim after she entered their apartment about 9 p.m. Johnson and Alexander took turns assaulting her, according to prosecutors. The victim called police immediately after the incident.
A violent pervert with a lengthy criminal record was arrested in a brutal attempted rape at a crowded Hell’s Kitchen nightspot, police said. Ricardo Lambert, 34, who lives on West 50th street in Manhattan, was charged Saturday with first-degree attempted rape after the 34-year-old victim identified him out of a lineup as her attacker. He allegedly jumped the 34-year-old woman as she left the bathroom at Flaming Saddles Bar on 9th Avenue at 10:35 p.m. on Oct. 3. He choked her into unconsciousness then ran off with her underwear when bar security stepped in to halt the sick attack, cops said.
hundreds of fast-food workers bused in from Chicago, Nashville and other cities marched alongside local defenders of thugs
An ex-convict found guilty last month of fatally stabbing a suburban teenager in her home in 2011 was sentenced Friday to 160 years in prison. A jury in September found John Wilson Jr. guilty in the murder of Kelli O’Laughlin. Prosecutors said the 14-year-old Lyons Township High School freshman interrupted Wilson as he was burglarizing her family’s Indian Head Park residence. Besides first-degree murder, Wilson was convicted of armed robbery, residential burglary and home invasion. 
A robber who stumbled and shot a medical student as he raided a fraternity residence has been found guilty of murder. Dajeon Franklin, 22, had no reaction when a jury convicted him of killing 25-year-old 
SPRINGFIELD — A registered sex offender has been arrested on charges including rape and strangulation, along with other crimes — some of which, police said, occurred in front of children. Johnny Deon Taylor, 36, who lists a local rescue mission as his address on his sex offender registry, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree rape, first-degree sexual penetration, fourth-degree assault, strangulation and menacing. He was booked into the Lane County Jail. Springfield police Det. David Grice said the case is still under investigation and is very similar to a case in which Taylor was convicted of sexual abuse in 2005. Taylor knew the victim for several weeks, Grice said. 
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They were divorced five years later. Hayes’ third marriage was to 
WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita man has been sentenced to prison for his role in the theft of a wedding ring from a dying woman's hand. Forty-three-year-old 
CAMP LEJEUNE, ONSLOW COUNTY - A Marine has been sentenced to military prison and is dishonorably discharged for accidentally shooting and killing another Marine at Camp Lejeune's main gate in April. A military judge sentenced LCpl. Brandon Little (pictured left) Wednesday to two years in the brig, a dishonorable discharge from the Marine Corps, forfeiture of all pay, and a reduction of rank to E-1. The original sentence was actually three years in confinement, but the last 12 months were suspended due to a pretrial agreement. Little accidentally shot and killed 21-year-old LCpl. 
HOUSTON -- Homicide investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect wanted in the murder of a good Samaritan in east Harris County last month. At around 6am on September 12, investigators say 
LUBBOCK, TX - The Ebola virus is now impacting a Lubbock murder trial. Defense attorneys for 23-year-old 
Johnson County Judge Brenda Cameron on Wednesday granted prosecutors’ request to bind over Roy Lee Maney on six charges — including first degree murder — stemming from his involvement in the Oct. 11, 2013, crash at 75th Street and Roe Avenue that took the life of Prairie Village resident 
RICHMOND, Va. — A 46-year-old Richmond man has been arrested for allegedly robbing and 
LOUISVILLE, KY - A Louisville man is accused of shooting and killing his girlfriend and then trying to dispose of her body by burning it. Police say it happened near Churchill Downs at their home on Iowa Avenue. Police arrested Antoine Montrell Bosley, 46, early Oct. 9 for the murder of 
A Jersey City Sunday school teacher who was ecstatic after her recent engagement was brutally stabbed to death by her former fiance this morning in the Heights apartment they still shared, officials said. “I feel horrible,” said St. Anne Church pastor the Rev. Nigel R. Mohammed of the murder of 
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A South Texas teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother and then defiling her body. A Nueces County jury took less than an hour Wednesday in deciding the life sentence for 18-year-old Kevin Jazrael Davis, who pleaded guilty earlier in the week to killing Kimberly Hill. Prosecutors say Davis in March struck his mother about 20 times with a hammer. He then sexually assaulted her corpse 
MONTGOMERY, AL - It's an announcement that continues to rock a Montgomery church and the surrounding community. Reporters confirmed with church leaders, including the now former pastor of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Juan Demetrius McFarland himself, that McFarland confessed from the pulpit a few Sundays ago that he had full blown AIDS and had slept with church members without revealing he had AIDS. He admitted to drug use and mishandling of church funds. "He concealed from the church that he had knowingly engaged in adultery in the church building with female members of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church while knowingly having AIDS," Williams said. 
A man was sentenced Wednesday to death for killing two women in Los Angeles three decades ago, as the judge made note of the brutality of the crimes. Kevin Haley, 50, was sentenced to death in the killings of
A 72-year-old woman who was stabbed in South Berkeley in September has died after nearly three weeks in medical care. 
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — Police in New Kensington announced Thursday that they have identified a suspect in an unsolved double homicide that left the community shaken. But it turns out, that man is dead. Investigators said they believe 18-year-old Brian Hall, of Penn Hills, is responsible for the shooting deaths of 
An Indianapolis man was sentenced to 60 years in prison this week for a murder than happened in June 2013. Keith Brown was sentenced Wednesday to 60 years in the Department of Correction but received about 16 months of jail credit. A court recommended mental health and substance abuse treatment and also a GED for Brown. Police arrested Brown for the murder of 37-year-old 
A southeastern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing a childhood friend to death and setting the apartment on fire last year. Twenty-two-year-old Shakeem Carter pleaded guilty Tuesday in Chester County to first-degree murder, robbery and arson in the February 2013 murder of 17-year-old 
“I can rest and sleep now and know that he will be rotting in hell,” Allen’s mom 
ROCKVILLE, Md. - A former Baltimore police officer who pleaded guilty to aggravated animal cruelty for killing his girlfriend's puppy will spend a year in jail. Alec Eugene Taylor of Silver Spring was sentenced Wednesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court. State sentencing guidelines had suggested a range of no jail time to three months. Taylor pleaded guilty in late August for beating his girlfriend's
A man who led police on a high-speed chase while high on PCP before slamming his car into another and killing a two-year-old girl has been found guilty of murder. Marvin Travon Hicks, 47, of Palmdale, California, was convicted of second-degree murder on Friday in the DUI pursuit crash that ended with the death of 
GREENSBORO — Officials have released a photo of the suspect in a fatal stabbing that happened on Sunday. Shiquan Jermaine Richardson, 22, of 1118 Summit Ave. faces a charge of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of
DAYTON — The death penalty trial of Anthony L. Stargell Jr., accused of murdering Dayton businessman 
A Colonial Heights man has been charged with the murder of a McDonald’s employee who was taking a break outside the restaurant July 20 in the 5100 block of Nine Mile Road. Deonte Maurice Jenkins Jr., 19, made a brief appearance in Henrico Circuit Court this morning and will return to court next week when a trial date could be set. He was indicted earlier this month on the murder charge after initially being arrested for attempted robbery and conspiracy charges. Jenkins faces three other felonies in connection with the shooting death of McDonald’s employee 
A Chicago police captain was shot in Englewood attempting to apprehend a suspect in multiple shootings in Indiana. One suspect was taken into custody and another is dead following a standoff of over five hours. The shooting happened at an apartment building. . SWAT teams and police stormed the building and found one suspect dead and took the other in custody late Tuesday night. Capt. 