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Black Man Arrested For Kicking Dog In The Head, Attacking Owner
   UNIONTOWN — A man and his dog are recovering after they were attacked and threatened while out for a walk earlier this week. Fred Hardin, 52, and his dog, Crosby, are a fixture on East Main Street in Uniontown. On Columbus Day, Hardin was off from his job as a parking lot attendant. About 11 a.m., near the courthouse, he and his best friend were taking a walk. That’s when Crosby, who was on a leash, began barking at 20-year-old Tredale Hall. Hall threatened to kick the dog. “I said that’s not polite, you know; why you want to be a punk about it?” said Hardin. Hall kicked Crosby in the head. “So I put the leash down to try to protect me and Crosby,” said Hardin. Lt. Tom Kolencik, of the Uniontown Police, says that’s when Hall attacked Fred from behind. “Pushed him to the ground, started stomping his head, yelling obscenities at him, threats, kicked him, punched him,” said Lt. Kolencik. Hall, and a teenager with him took off, but an officer soon caught up to them. - (Black-on-white) |
BALTIMORE —A former Maryland Transit Administration bus driver is facing several charges after a family claimed she got several teens to beat them up after one of the victims got into an argument with her. Former MTA bus driver Karen Murphy left district court in northwest Baltimore on Thursday after her first court appearance to answer to multiple charges of assault and conspiracy. Court documents said she told a group of juveniles to beat up a family of three that was riding on her bus. "She actually let these children get off of this bus and beat me and my family for at least three minutes, then let them get back on, get weapons, get back off and back on again, and then took off with every one of them that did it," victim Kristina Gibson said. Gibson said the incident happened on June 6, when she and her boyfriend, Christopher Fisher, were picking up their son, 9-year-old Logan, from school and were riding the No. 22 bus to Hampden from Greenmount Avenue. . Police estimated that about 15-20 teens converged on the couple. Gibson said the teens beat them and pepper-sprayed them. "As soon as the doors opened, they hit my boyfriend on the back of the head with something," Gibson said. - (Black-on-white)
One of four people accused by New Orleans police of beating and robbing a French Quarter tourist on camera has been identified after police said he returned the victim's wallet shortly after the attack. Police have issued an arrest warrant for Bruce Jones in connection with the incident, which took place around 4:30 a.m. Sunday (Oct. 12) in the 800 block of St. Louis Street. A nearby security camera recorded the victim being grabbed and slammed to the ground by multiple people who proceeded to kick and punch him repeatedly, police said. Two women watched the attack take place but did nothing to intervene, police said. The attackers took the victim's wallet, phone and Cartier watch valued at more than $10,000, police said. 
SEATTLE -- Police say a pair of suspected thieves stole suitcases from the baggage claim at Sea-Tac airport. The crime highlights an ongoing problem in a part of the airport where your belongings are most vulnerable. According to police, the two walked right up, grabbed suitcases, and took off with at least 18 bags that investigators know of, valued at more than $45,000. One bag had $10,000 worth of electronics inside. Another contained someone's seizure medication, according to charging documents.
HAMPTON -- A Hampton man is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy twice in four days, including once at a library. Police say 47-year-old James Thomas Curry first assaulted the 
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Warrants have been filed against a man accused of robbing and sexually assaulting four UAB students in a campus parking deck Monday night, university president Ray Watts announced today. Watts identified the suspect as Roderick Bernard Gaston. He is not in custody. The two female undergraduate students were forced at gunpoint to perform oral sex on the male victims. All four victims - which included two males - were forced to strip. They later ran to a nearby restaurant for help.
A 15-year-old boy is accused of a disturbing crime, detectives say he forced his way into the home of his elderly neighbor and tried to sexually assault her. Deshawn Quinson Croson was charged with home invasion, attempted sexual battery and kidnapping to commit a felony. Investigators say the Zephyrhills High student knocked on the door of his 
ATHENS COUNTY, Ohio -- A Michigan man has been indicted in Athens County on several charges for an incident that allegedly happened at Ohio University's Homecoming in 2013. Dedrick Peterson, 31, of Ann Arbor, was indicted this week on six counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery, and one count of aggravated burglary. The Athens County Prosecutor's Office says the charges stem from an incident that happened at OU during Homecoming 2013. Both defendant and the victim have connections with the university and were affiliated with the Marching 110. 
The suspect is described as a black male, 21- to 25-years-old, 5’7″ to 5’9″ tall with medium build.
MENANDS -- Police arrest a convicted sex offender tried to rape a woman on the Hudson River Walkway in Menands. Jason Fowler, 33, is facing charges of sex abuse and attempted rape after police say he stalked and tried to rape a 24-year-old woman walking on the path. The incident happened last Thursday shortly before noon. Officials say the woman managed to fight off Fowler and run away where she found two bystanders who called police. The suspect was taken into custody near where the attack occurred. 
FAYETTEVILLE -- The Fayetteville Police Department has released a composite sketch of a man who allegedly broke into a woman's home in the Beaver Run subdivision Oct. 4 and tried to sexually assault her. He's a black male, 25-40 years old, approximately 5'9" in height, and approximately 200 pounds. The man has a somewhat muscular definition to his arms and shoulders, a shaved head, and thin, sparse eyebrows. He has a small goatee that covered just the end of his chin.
New surveillance pictures are being released tonight of the man that police allege attacked a jogger in University City Monday morning. The female jogger told police the man on the bike grabbed her and put his hand over her mouth. She said she bite the man’s hand and ran away. The incident happened near the intersection of Forsyth and Asbury Monday morning.
A judge sentenced a Philadelphia teenager to life in prison for killing his childhood friend over the theft of a PlayStation3. A Philadelphia jury found Malik Anderson, who turns 20 in December, guilty of first-degree murder and weapons charges in connection to the killing of
NEW CASTLE, Del. – A Delaware couple has been charged with the death of the woman’s four-year-old daughter. On Aug. 8, 2014 around 2:24 a.m., a call came in to officials from the Budget Motor Lodge at 140 S. DuPont Highway in New Castle requesting emergency assistance for 
Top City Hall aide Rachel Noerdlinger’s convicted-killer boyfriend admitted in court that he had her car when she got most of her $900 in parking tickets — but ridiculously blamed cops for targeting him because he’s black. The judge, also black, shot back at a defiant, rambling Hassaun McFarlane, telling him it would be impossible for the parking agents to know the color of his skin since he wasn’t even in the car. McFarlane has called cops “pigs” on social media. He has a rap sheet that includes a homicide, conspiring to run a cocaine operation and nearly running a cop off the road in Edgewater, NJ, last year. Noerdlinger, a former aide to the 
Sanford Rubenstein rushed the woman he is accused of raping out of his Upper East Side penthouse the morning after the alleged assault — telling her, “I missed a meeting, I got to get out of here,” a source close to the case told The Post on Friday. The 42-year-old woman was awoken by the 70-year-old lawyer telling her to get her clothes back on.
WASHINGTON - Police say a prominent rabbi secretly videotaped at least six women changing clothes at a ritual cleansing bath affiliated with his District of Columbia synagogue. Rabbi Barry Freundel, 62, was arrested by police earlier this week at his home in the U.S. capital's upscale Georgetown neighborhood, a few blocks from his modern Orthodox synagogue, Kesher Israel Congregation. He has been charged with voyeurism and pleaded not guilty. Freundel set up a recording device disguised as a digital clock radio in the changing and showering area of the National Capital Mikvah, which is affiliated with the Kesher Israel Congregation. Police say he recorded women on June 2 and September 13 and appears on tape setting up the device. 
DES MOINES, Iowa —A woman critically hurt during a stabbing Wednesday in downtown Des Moines has now died. Crews were called to 700 East 5th Street about 3:15 p.m. The stabbing was reported in an area of apartment buildings north of the East Village area of downtown. An apartment manager at the River Hills Apartments was stabbed inside the complex office. Police said she was stabbed in the upper torso and lost a lot of blood. She was taken to a metro hospital where she died a couple hours later. Police arrested a man near the scene who is reportedly a former resident of the complex. The man who was arrested was identified as Norman Wadsworth, 74. He was taken to the Des Moines Police Department and was charged with first-degree murder and booked into the Polk County Jail. 
DECATUR – Five years and two months after a group of nine teen friends stomped to death 61-year-old 
BOSTON – The mother of a park ranger who was stabbed Tuesday on the Boston Common says 
NEW ORLEANS, LA - Three men armed with a baseball bat violently attacked a man in the French Quarter just before 4 a.m. Sunday. The victim said he considers himself street savvy, but the attack on Dauphine near At. Ann tested him like never before.
Five men have appeared in court charged in connection with a terror plot "to shoot, to kill, police officers or soldiers on the streets of London". 
CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services said on Tuesday that the agency never had custody of 
The last time 
ALBANY, GA - A Cordele business owner is being treated for serious injuries at Macon Medical Center after investigators say he was severely beaten and robbed by one of his own employees. We talked with a friend who runs a business near Dennard's Exchange Mart in Cordele who say they are praying for his recovery and hope the man who did this violent crime is brought to justice. The doors of Exchange Mart, which 
He may soon be living for free behind bars. The ex-con who allegedly filed a fake deed to steal an elderly woman’s Queens home was arrested Tuesday in Housing Court, where he was brazenly fighting eviction. Darrell Beatty, 49, was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property for allegedly illegally transferring the deed of a Laurelton home into his name and moving in with his two sons. The alleged scheme could send Beatty to prison for more than 15 years. It was sweet relief for 
A 15-year-old girl pleaded guilty to hitting a Temple University student across the face with a brick -- 
MUSKEGON, MI – Leon Means has confessed to killing four women in Muskegon Heights -- two this week and two in 1989 -- according to a police detective's sworn statement. An arrest warrant was signed Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 15, charging the 61-year-old Means with four counts of open murder as a fourth-time or subsequent habitual offender. Muskegon County 60th District Judge Raymond J. Kostrzewa signed the warrant and denied bond. Victims: 
Kansas authorities charged a Wichita man Wednesday in the sexual assault and burglary of a
A Queens man already in custody for shooting at two cops in Jackson Heights while wearing a fake beard and dark glasses copped a plea Wednesday to host of new weapons charges. 
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. 
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.