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- ...Robins got back into his car and drove up Greenway Road to Heather Drive where he allegedly, cut in front of an oncoming vehicle, according to police. The driver of that vehicle stopped and officers said Robins attacked her before again fleeing the area. 8 News Now spoke with that victim, Nicole Thompson, 27, by phone as she awaited surgery at a local hospital. Thompson said she was trying to drive to her Henderson-area home, when a man, who police said was robins, cut her off, got out of his car and approached her with a sledgehammer. "He got out, holding something, a hammer in his hand,” Thompson said. “So, I was saying ‘Please, you have the wrong person, please, please, please,' and he started hitting the car. I just started telling him you know, I don't want to die, I have a child at home, and he just started hitting me in the face." Thompson said her attacker could not be reasoned with. "He was just crazed,” she said. “I don't know, he was just going and just hitting me." Police said the attacker was Robins. Thompson said eventually, he walked away from the car and she drove herself home, where she saw the extent of her injuries, which include three broken bones in her jaw and a broken finger. “I drove to my house, got of the car and walked into the house and saw a mirror and I realized, it was bad,” Thompson said....
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SEAGROVE, N.C. —A former employee was among three Asheboro people arrested in connection with the death of a man found in a house fire near Seagrove two months ago. Debra Raegan Dorsett, 23, Jesse Levon Martin, 32, and Dannie Deddie Smith, 27, were charged with murder following the death of Elden Kitson Vanderwal, 71. Vanderwal was found dead around 4:20 a.m. August 23 inside his home on Brewer Road, about 10 miles south of Seagrove in Moore County. An autopsy determined Vanderwal had been murdered before the fire was started, Moore County deputies said. The home was destroyed in the fire. The property also includes a business called Lantern Hill Pottery, which Vanderwal ran. Dorsett was formerly employed at Lantern Hill Pottery, and Martin is her boyfriend, deputies said. All three suspects were held without bond in the Moore County Detention Center pending Nov. 25 court appearances. - (Black-on-white)
SPARTANBURG, SC - The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said a man wanted in a fatal shooting Sunday night was taken into custody on Monday. Around 7:45 p.m., deputies were called. Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said a young adult male was found dead at the scene. The coroner identified him as 25-year-old 
WINTER HAVEN, FL - Two Winter Haven nursing assistants were charged with battery of an elderly person after police say they were captured on video tormenting and hitting a 
A South Florida mother was arrested after police say she forced her 
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI - A man was arraigned on a an open murder charge for the death of his wife on Thursday. Andrew Farley Jr.'s charge comes after Tiffany Cane-Smith Farley's body was found at their home on the 5100 block of Centreville Road in Genesee County's Grand Blanc Township on Sunday night. A gas leak at the home was also discovered. Police were called to the home around 8:30 p.m. Sunday when they found the woman deceased in the home. Andrew Farley was injured inside the home, police said. He was transported to an area hospital for treatment. Officers said the gas leak may have been caused intentionally. Neighboring homes were evacuated because of the high levels of gas. 
WASHINGTON - Two “Stop the Violence” organizers allegedly beat one of their colleagues so severely that he vomited blood and was left unconscious in critical condition. Emanuel Velez and Nikole Ardeno, both 30, accused their former roommate of stealing their property, and allegedly punched and kicked him in the street until he had seizures. Arrested moments later, Ardeno was still wearing the same “Stop the Violence” T-shirt she had on the night before when she coordinated a march protesting two recent shootings, Washington Police Chief Chris Luppino said. The victim, 
MADISON, Wis. - Four men are facing charges related to what a 17-year-old describes as party involving sex, drugs, alcohol and minors in a Madison hotel room. Lucas J. Anderson, 20, Hanife E. Johnson, 21, and Jourdyn Ross, 20, all of Madison, are charged with sexual assault of a child under age 16, party to the crime of child enticement, and party to the crime of causing
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 34-year-old Jacksonville man pleaded guilty this week to charges of sexual battery, lewd or lascivious battery and child abuse that resulted in the impregnation of a child younger than 16. According to the State Attorney's Office, in April 2013, the 
LITTLETON — A 59-year-old man has been arrested and charged for second-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and second-degree sexual offense. The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office filed felony warrants against the suspect, Macon resident Eddie Cosom Jr., according to Detective Sgt. Willie Murphy Jr. Murphy said this incident occurred about 9 p.m. Tuesday outside of the Littleton area. He also said the charges stemmed from an investigation he lead which found Cosom allegedly committed sexual acts against a female victim. 
RAMAPO, N.Y. — A school bus driver in suburban New York is accused of masturbating behind the wheel while driving a student to his classes, Ramapo, N.Y., police said Thursday. Police charged Robert Bertart, 60, of Orangetown, N.Y., with public lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child. Bertart never touched the 14-year-old boy or spoke to him, and may not have realized the 9th-grader was still on the bus, Ramapo Police Detective Lt. Mark Emma said. The student saw the driver's activities through the large mirror the driver uses to look at students on the bus, Emma said.
A man accused of shooting four people in a Greenville commercial area in 2013 was sentenced to 97 years and eight months in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty in Pitt County Superior Court. Lakim Anthony Faust, 24, pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and seven counts of assault on a law enforcement officer. Law enforcement officers, victims and their families also attended the proceedings. Evidence presented for Jenkins to weigh for sentencing included video from security cameras in the area and from an officer who was wearing a camera. Faust, who has a histroy of mental illness, was experiencing a psychotic episode during the shooting, according to testimony, but understood the consequences of his actions and could not plead insanity. Police said at the time of the crime that he used a shotgun to shoot one man at 11:44 a.m. on June 21, 2013, in the parking lot of Kellum Law Firm on Greenville Boulevard. Then he walked across the street to the Walmart parking lot and allegedly shot three more men at close range before police shot him. The indictments said Faust shot the four men because of their “race, color, religion, nationality, or country of origin.” Faust is black; 
Catania, October 27 - A 27-year-old, Senegalese man confessed to murdering his former girlfriend, 
A Fargo woman is going to jail for 90 days after pleading guilty in the traffic death of her boyfriend last March. Olivia Anderson was originally charged with manslaughter, she ended up pleading guilty to reckless driving. After the jail time Anderson will be on probation for a year and was ordered to pay seven-thousand dollars in funeral expenses. Dvraughn Rutues died three days after he was hit by a car driven by Anderson. Rutues fell off the hood of the car after the two had been arguing. 
A father has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after shooting a man he found hiding in his daughter's bedroom in the head. 
SIERRA VISTA- The U.S. Marshals arrested Calana Lawrence on a warrant for Sexual Conduct with a Minor. According to Sierra Vista Police Corporal Scott Borgstadt, Lawrence was wanted for four counts of Sexual Conduct with a Minor from a 2013 case. A tip through SVPD's Citizen Assisted Location List led the Marshals to a residence in Tucson. She was arrested and booked into the Pima County Jail on a $40,000 bond, said Borgstadt. 
A Framingham man, angry that an officer stopped him on the downtown train tracks Monday, took off his clothes and repeatedly asked the cop to shoot him. Framingham Police arrested Mandela A. Kponou, 30, at 9:02 p.m., police spokesman Lt. Stephen Cronin said. An officer saw Kponou walking across the tracks and told him to stop. . "(Kponou) took off his jacket and said 'shoot me,' and said it was an injustice because he pays our salaries," said Cronin. "He said 'Cops shoot black men all of the time. Come on, shoot me like you shoot handcuffed men,' and then he took off his shirt and threw it at the officer." 
A 29-year-old woman reported an unknown, armed man carjacked and raped her on the north end of Hilton Head Island late Monday, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office. Before running, the suspect threatened to kill the victim if she called the police or drove away without waiting 30 minutes. After nearly an hour, the woman left and went to the hospital, the news release said. The suspect was described as a black male with a dark complexion, about 25 to 30 years old, last seen wearing khaki shorts, a dark button-up shirt, and a black sweater cap. 
The case, in which three men, former ESU students, allege Sanders made inappropriate sexual advances toward them and acted inappropriately in his role as a top university administrator, is being heard in federal court in Scranton before Judge Robert Mariani. Sanders forced the plaintiff’s hand down his pants and onto his private parts. Sanders tried to get the plaintiff to perform oral sex, but the plaintiff refused, Murray said. 
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Police divers, under the watchful eye of homicide detectives and the Crime scene Unit, spent more than four hours searching the Schuylkill River beneath the Falls Bridge as part of a growing investigation into Dion Jordan, an accused killer, kidnapper and bank robber. Jordan is now under investigation for five additional murders in addition to the killing of 50-year-old 
LOS ANGELES — Record producer Marion “Suge” Knight and comedian Katt Williams were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stealing a camera from 
City lawyers say they have irrefutable evidence that a politically connected Manhattan judge trying to dodge a traffic ticket — and suing the city over it — is, in fact, guilty of the violation. “This case can be resolved by viewing 17 seconds of video image,” Law Department attorney Sharon Stiefel boasts in court papers. Supreme Court Judge Geoffrey Wright, brother of Assemblyman Keith Wright, sued over the $115 ticket in July after a red-light “gotcha” cam caught him in a bus lane on First Avenue.
The Asbury Park police officer, 46-year-old Keith German, is accused of helping gang members evade police by giving confidential information. 
A Harvey mother has been arrested after authorities say she beat her 7-year-old son so badly he lost a tooth. Mursheika Hall, 28, was arrested Friday (Oct. 24) on one count of cruelty to a juvenile, the same day deputies with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office say she beat her son and dropped him off at school in bloody clothes and with a swollen eye. The boy told authorities his mother became angry when his 3-year-old sister slid off his stomach and fell on the ground, an arrest report says.
PHOENIX - A mother who left her kids in the car while she went on a job interview will now be criminally prosecuted. A trial date was set today after she failed to create a trust fund for her children. 
SAN GABRIEL — The Pomona SWAT officer shot in the head died early Wednesday morning, officials said.
A 20-year-old pizza deliveryman from Florida was arrested and charged with murder after police say he strangled and stabbed to death his roommate, and then had sex with her lifeless body. 
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NORMAN, Okla. – A 64-year-old Salvation Army worker says she quit her job after she was brutally beaten at work. Officials say the attack was captured on surveillance video.
The Muslim extremist who attacked rookie cops with a hatchet last week was “a crusader seeking justice’’ — and more assaults will likely follow, the head of his local New Black Panther Party warned. “It probably won’t be the last [attack on police] because you have a lot of frustrated people out here,” Queens chapter leader Frank Sha Francois told The Post. Francois said ax-wielding 
LOS ANGELES — A man who was recorded confessing to the killings of two Chinese graduate students near the University of Southern California was convicted Monday of first-degree murder. Javier Bolden, 22, was found guilty of shooting 
A Philadelphia man has been found guilty of assaulting a police officer and other related offenses for a police-involved shooting in Delaware County in September of 2013. Authorities say it all started with a traffic stop on Chester Pike in Sharon Hill. As an officer asked 32-year old Brandon Schonfeld to step out of his vehicle, Schonfeld hit the officer with the door, before elbowing him and running away. The officer gave chase across three lanes of traffic, and then north on Barker Avenue, where Schonfeld pulled out a gun, and took aim at the officer. While asking him to drop the weapon, the officer fired a few shots before taking cover and calling for backup. Schonfeld ran towards nearby train tracks, which is where he was found with gunshot wounds to his torso by responding officers. Police also found a black semi-automatic handgun about 15-feet away from where Schonfeld was taken into custody.
GARY, Ind. -- Prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old Gary man with murder after he allegedly shot a 13-year-old neighbor who he suspected of burglarizing his home. Khanji Fairley was being held without bond Monday at the Lake County Jail following the slaying of 
"They shot my 13-year-old son," said the victim's father, Kaunda Jones. 
According to the Utah DMV website, a privilege card is issued to someone who is unable to establish legal presence in the United State, ineligible for a Social Security Number and can show they are a Utah resident. 
TRENTON, N.J. — A Philadelphia man who blackmailed a New Jersey man who responded to his online ad seeking sex is going to prison. A judge has sentenced 43-year-old Steven Beisher to five years behind bars and ordered him to pay restitution to the victim. Prosecutors say the victim sent a naked picture of himself to an ad for homosexual sex that Beisher had posted on Craigslist in 2012. Beisher contacted the man the next day and threatened to expose him to his wife and family if he didn’t pay him money. Authorities say Beisher extorted $1,950 over nine days before the man reported him to police.
Barbara Bowman was 17-year-old 
Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in Monroe County court for the long-delayed trial of a man charged with killing and dismembering a Scranton woman in 2008. Charles Ray Hicks, 40, is facing a possible death sentence if he’s convicted of first-degree murder for the death of 
NEWPORT, Ky. —According to the Department of Corrections, the parole board decided to grant convicted murderer Reggie Graves’ parole Monday. The board held a meeting Monday to reconsider parole, taking into consideration the statements that were made by the victim’s family last week. Authorities said 16 years ago, 
WOODBURY, N.J. — The family of a New Jersey girl who was strangled by a teenage boy two years ago is suing several law enforcement agencies. The lawsuit says that police didn’t act properly and that if they had, there’s “a reasonable chance” Autumn Pasquale would be alive. The South Jersey Times reports that the lawsuit alleges that authorities should have immediately implemented a child abduction response team, instead of waiting until the next day. It also claims they refused assistance from a retired law enforcement investigator. Pasquale, a 12-year-old Clayton resident, was killed in October 2012 after she went to a neighbor’s home to trade bicycle parts. 
GEORGETOWN, Del. – Police in Delaware say they’ve arrested a 20-year-old man for sexual extortion and rape after he threatened to disseminate explicit photographs of a teen. Edward B. Wescott, of Georgetown, was arrested on Oct. 25th after police picked him up at a predetermined location near Georgetown where he was supposedly meeting the 
A court has heard a US Navy sailor accused of raping a Darwin woman sent the alleged victim a Facebook message apologising for his actions. Hugh Patrick Malone, 23, is accused of raping a Darwin woman in his hotel room in September 2013. In opening submissions in Darwin's Supreme Court, Crown prosecutor Matthew Nathan said the complainant and her two friends had made arrangements to meet a group of sailors including Malone at a Darwin bar. Mr Nathan said Malone, who was from the visiting Navy transport dock USS Denver, invited the woman back to his hotel room while he collected his belongings. The court heard he then pulled the woman into his room and started to kiss her roughly. Mr Nathan said Malone then picked her up, put her on the bed and digitally penetrated her, but stopped when she started to cry. 
The suspect in a Statesboro rape was recently arrested in North Carolina and is now in Bulloch County Jail, Statesboro police said. Clarence Hinson Lewis, 35, of Mikell Street, was arrested in Charlotte, N.C., on Oct. 14 on a warrant issued by the Statesboro Police Department charging him with rape, the police department said in a news release issued Monday. The victim is a 24-year-old 
ALBANY, GA - An Albany man is going back to to prison, after he texted his probation officer while looking to buy marijuana. Alvin Cross Junior plead guilty Monday to possession of cocaine and was sentenced to one year in prison. He was also sentenced to serve another year for violating his probation. Prosecutors said Cross' probation officer received a text from Cross asking, "You have some weed?" Probation officers and drug agents raided Cross' home and found a bag of cocaine. 
TRENTON >> An accused murderer, who thought he was being chased by aliens, was hit with a 14-count indictment for robbing and killing one man and attempting to kill another. Jack Isabell’s charges include three counts of first degree murder, felony murder and attempted murder on top of all the robbery, weapons and drugs charges he got during after the authorities’ investigation into his alleged crimes. He also has a murder charge that makes the 41-year-old eligible for a mandatory sentence of life without parole. That specific charge was created when the death penalty was abolished in 2007, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s office.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Police say a Louisville man who claimed to be Jesus Christ attacked a woman he said was the devil. The assault took place just before 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. That's when police say 52-year-old Colvotte Brooks, of E. Kentucky Street, assaulted 
The disappearance of a South Jersey woman and the apparent suicide of her boyfriend have sparked fears from police and the community that foul play was involved. 
BENTON - A Benton man is in jail Monday after he was arrested and charged with 3 counts of juvenile rape. The Benton Police Department received a report shortly after 12 a.m. Monday of a possible rape involving a female juvenile victim. During the investigation, evidence collected indicated the victim was raped and there was possibly another juvenile victim involved. Police arrested 
WESTTOWN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A priest in Chester County is accused of possessing and distributing child pornography through a popular photo-sharing network. Rev. Mark Haynes, a priest assigned to Saints Simon & Jude Parish, in Westtown Township, has been charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse of children for possessing and disseminating child pornography.
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HENDERSON – A 31-year-old Las Vegas man surrendered to Henderson police Friday night after he attacked
HOUSTON -- The story of a registered sex offender -- who is HIV positive -- charged with sexually assaulting his then
A TV production assistant who was shot in the chest by a violent crack-dealing thug asked a Brooklyn judge to throw the book at her shooter Wednesday – and the judge complied by putting the ex-con behind bars for 50 years. “I begged him to stop and he looked into my eyes and shot me anyway,” 
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Desperate to raise money in the weeks before his first run for Congress, Michael Grimm e-mailed an ally in a bold bid to score large, and likely illegal, donations. He asked for $10,000 donations from six people, when the legal limit for individual contributions is $2,400. “We have very little time, as I need to start collecting checks as soon as today or tomorrow,” Grimm wrote in the Oct. 18, 2010, missive to Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto’s organization. “I think that if the Rabbi calls the six people and asks them to each write one check for the $10,000, then we can finish this in the next few days.” Pinto, an Orthodox mystic who lives in Manhattan and Israel, prompted the federal investigation against Grimm. The rabbi reported to federal authorities in 2010 that he was the victim of an alleged extortion scheme by two members of his inner circle, Israeli businessman Ofer Biton and p.r. executive Ronn Torossian. Grimm, at the time, had become a follower of the rabbi, even though he is not Jewish and speaks no Hebrew. Pinto does not speak English.
TOWSON, Md. - A popular Washington, D.C. rabbi accused of voyeurism apparently took some of his female Towson University students to the synagogue where he's accused of secretly videotaping women, reports CBS Baltimore. The rabbi, Barry Freundel, who taught classes at Towson since 2009, took the students to the synagogue as part of a field trip in their religious studies class, according to the station. Freundel was arrested last week on accusations that he set up a hidden camera and recorded video of women changing in the synagogue's ritual bathing area known as a mikvah, where women immerse themselves during sacred rituals. 
ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Sweeping changes to St. Louis Community College’s approach to campus safety can be traced back 18 months to an ambush of a young woman in a school bathroom. The attacker, Jevon Mallory, admitted in court Friday to sneaking up behind fellow student Blythe Grupe last year and choking her in a restroom on the Meramec campus in Kirkwood. Mallory, 20, of St. John, pleaded guilty of first-degree assault and faces up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 12. Mallory was released by campus police within hours of the attack on Grupe, despite his admission that he was attempting to “withdraw her from life” and that he attacked her to “vent his rage.” Officials didn’t alert the campus to the threat, and addressed the assault only after Grupe, then 19, went to the press for help. 
BEAUFORT CO., SC - Two men wanted for the murder of a Thunderbolt couple in Nov. 2013 have been arrested. The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office located and arrested Michael Donta Jones. Jones was wanted for two counts of felony murder, two counts of malice murder and two counts of aggravated assault which originated from a Nov.2013 investigation by the Thunderbolt Police Department in Georgia. The second suspect was also arrested on Friday for the double homicide. 26-year-old Nathaniel Willy Wilkins was arrested at 9:15 a.m. and is currently being held at the Chatham County Jail. "They were a young couple. They were in love. They liked to have a good time obviously, but they were young. You are supposed to be young and have fun. You're not supposed to lose your life like they did that night," said Chief Robert Marriman, Thunderbolt policeman. The couple, 
AUGUSTA, Ga. --The woman killed at the Rocky Creek Mobile Home Park died of multiple blunt force trauma and drowning due to assault, the Richmond County Coroner's Office said. The Coroner said 33-year-old 
Syracuse, NY -- Onondaga County prosecutors had agreed to give Romeo Williams a 25-year prison sentence if he pleaded guilty to the one-punch death of