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A 69-year-old Michigan man was charged on Wednesday for possessing child pornography and raping an 8-year-old girl with Down syndrome. According to Fox 17, David Heinsen was in possession of over 650,000 images and 3,000 videos depicting the rape and torture of children. In 1989, he allegedly raped an 8-year-old neighbor with Down syndrome and […]

A Wisconsin man was arrested after he was caught having sex with a donkey, a result of his “privates being out of control,” according to the man. Gideon Swartzentruber, 20, a farm worker, was caught having sexual relations with the donkey by his boss earlier in September, according to the Mirror. According to New York […]

A woman claiming to be Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli’s ex-girlfriend alleges that during Facebook conversations that took place a few years after they broke up, Martin Shkreli offered her money in exchange for sex. The woman, who calls herself “Katie,” contacted Business Insider on Tuesday about the conversations and posted screenshots of the conversations […]

It’s the first time Fordham University has even revoked an honorary degree given, but Thursday the university announced they would be taking back the honorary doctorate degree given to Bill Cosby in 2001. According to Time, the university Board of Trustees unanimously decided to revoke the degree amid the ongoing allegations that Bill Cosby drugged […]

Illinois police announced on Sunday that they had solved the 30-year-old cold case sexual assault and murder of a 15-year-old Glen Ellyn teen who was killed on her way home from a store. Michael R. Jones, 62, of Champaign, Illinois, was arrested on Sunday morning. According to the Chicago Tribune, he is being charged with […]

A new study has shown that smoking can increase a person’s risk of diabetes by 37 percent and exposure to secondhand smoke increases that risk to 57 percent. The study, published in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, analyzed 88 previous studies involving over 6 million participants in the United Kingdom. According to Tech Times, […]

The California police department is under fire after nine police officers were caught on video forcibly slamming a teen onto a sidewalk and arresting him. His crime? Jaywalking. Witnesses told RT the 16-year-old was walking near a Stockton, California bus depot early Tuesday morning when a police officer saw him jaywalking in the bus-only lane […]

A Florida woman was arrested after police found her mobile home filled with 3,500 knives, satanic shrines, and fake body parts. Brooksville police arrived at the home of Nickole Dykema, 47, on Tuesday night to arrest her for outstanding warrants. When they arrived, they found her staring at them through a broken window, screaming obscenities […]

Manu Bennett, the actor famous for playing a villain in both The Hobbit and Arrow, was arrested for assault early Sunday morning. According to People, the San Antonio Police Department took Manu Bennett, 45, into custody after allegedly “punching a 29-year-old male during a disturbance at a party.” The incident occurred after the convention had […]

A new study shows homophobic people also possess more psychotic personality traits as compared to individuals who are not homophobic. The study, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, was led by Professor Emmanuele Jannini of the University of Rome. Jannini explored homophobic beliefs as a possible mental illness and found correlations to psychological dysfunctions. […]

After months of searching for Denise Thiem, the missing Litchfield Park woman who disappeared from a hike on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in Spain, a man has been arrested after a body was discovered on his property. Denise Thiem, 41, went missing in April while hiking the Camino de Santiago, a popular hiking […]

Two more alleged predators are off the street in Bowling Green, Kentucky, as two men were arrested for a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl Saturday afternoon. According to WBKO, Sheriff’s deputies of the Warren County Sheriff’s Department were originally called to Beech Bend Park at approximately 1:17 p.m. on Saturday afternoon after they received […]

The parents of 20-year-old Joshua Ryne Goldberg, the Florida man who was arrested Thursday for planning a bomb attack on a Kansas City 9/11 memorial, had “no idea” their son was pretending to be an Australian-based Islamic State jihadist online. According to News 4, neighbors said they weren’t aware that a bomb attack was being […]

A Florida man has been arrested by federal officials for allegedly plotting a bomb attack on a 9/11 memorial event in Kansas City. Joshua Goldberg, 20, of Orange Park, Florida, is charged with providing information on how to make a bomb to an online associate. According to an announcement made Thursday by U.S. Attorney A. […]

Police have released the frantic 911 call made by a Georgia mother as her two sons were allegedly trying to kill their parents early Saturday morning. Yvonne Ervin, 50, called 911 to report that she and her husband were being attacked in their Georgia home. “Please send someone to my house. My children are trying […]

A Wichita grandmother has been arrested after police say the grandmother abandoned her 5-year-old grandson at a store after a shoplifting attempt went wrong, according to Sedgwick County Jail booking reports. Kathleen Adel Williams, 41, is accused of leaving her grandson at a Kohl’s store on June 16. According to KAKE News, the grandmother was […]

An Oklahoma high school assistant basketball coach has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old student. Byron McDonald, 24, was arrested at Guthrie High School and escorted off the campus by Logan County Deputies on Friday morning, according to News 9. Guthrie High School staff member accused of sexual relationship with student. http://t.co/e3CA3bOW8d […]

A gay couple was finally issued a marriage license a day after a Kentucky clerk was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, thus ending the ban. Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk who was arrested Thursday for refusing to follow the orders of U.S. District Judge David Bunning, had stopped issuing marriage licenses […]

The fifth and final suspect in the Homestead murder of 17-year-old Jose Santos Amaya Guardado, who was hacked to death by a machete, was made earlier this week. According to the Miami Herald, 23-year-old Joseph Michael Cabrera was found by police in a St. Louis, Missouri, home. His exact charges are still unknown. It is […]

A Simmons College psychology professor has been arrested on child pornography charges, according to police. Alyssa Azotea, 37, of Concord, New Hampshire, was arrested on Friday. According to Concord police, she had warrants issued for her arrest. The Simmons College professor is facing four charges of computer pornography and three charges of endangering the welfare […]

She was badly beaten and left for dead with half of her face cut off. But this week, Khalessi, the pit bull without a face, received a new nose. It was the first of several surgeries for Khalessi the pit bull, who was found recently in Orlando, starving and badly abused. The pit bull suffered […]

A 13-year-old Idaho boy is being called a hero for keeping his dad alive for more than two days after he was struck by a falling boulder and was badly injured. Charlie Winsted Finlayson and his dad, David Finalyson, 52, were on a two-week backpacking trip in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness when […]

A Kent State University professor was arrested after he was caught by Akron police in a car with the intent of pursuing a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy he had met online, police said. Professor Willie Harrell Jr., 44, was arrested Wednesday night in the parking lot of a city school, according to a […]

A San Antonio man, accused of pouring acid on a pit bull and burning her face off, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon by the San Antonio Police Department and Animal Care Services. According to San Antonio Express News, Ignacio Sanchez Alvarez, 45, was taken into custody after he was identified by ACS Cruelty Investigators and […]

A Falmouth, Kentucky, firefighter is lucky to be alive after suffering what is known as a “widow maker” heart attack while on duty Saturday afternoon. According to a report by WCPO News, firefighter David Klaber from Pendleton County responded to a report that 300 to 400 bales of hay were burning shortly after 12 p.m. […]

A memorial for Madyson Middleton, the beautiful 8-year-old girl killed earlier this year by a local teen, will be held Sunday, Aug. 23. The service for Madyson will be held at Kaiser Permanente Arena, located at 140 Front St. in Santa Cruz, Calif.. The memorial is open to the public. Doors will open at 1:30 […]

A Florida woman says she had suspected for years that ex-Subway icon Jared Fogle was interested in sex with minors, so she went to authorities who had her record the conversations. Rochelle Herman-Walrond, a former journalist, told media outlets that she wore a wire to record conversations of Fogle. Woman secretly recorded Jared Fogle http://t.co/ZYPlU9M1ef […]

An Albertville man was arrested on Thursday by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit after he was alleged to be in possession of hundreds of child porn images, some of which included infants and toddlers. Rodney Shane Bolding, 43, was arrested and booked into the Marshall County Jail. He […]

A 16-year-old girl who alleges she was raped at the prestigious New Hampshire prep school returned to the witness stand on Wednesday, telling the court she felt she couldn’t say no to the popular older boy as he raped her during a secret rooftop meeting last Spring. She described her confusion as he began groping […]

Rosie O’Donnell’s missing daughter, Chelsea, has been found according to a tweet posted by the comedian Tuesday afternoon. “Chelsea has been found and is safe in police custody — thank u all for the help and light #missingchildren,” she wrote at 6:25 p.m. chelsea has been found and is safe in police custody – thank […]

A teen boy has been arrested and accused of breaking into a North Philadelphia home then abducting, sexually assaulting and beating a 5-year-old girl unconscious last month, and leaving her for dead. Police say that the 15-year old teen is known to frequent the neighborhood where the assault occurred. He faces multiple charges including attempted […]

A teenage girl had her little finger completely sliced off as she attempted to enter an illegal rave by climbing over a spiked metal fence. The rave in Charlton in Southeast London was attended by thousands of teenagers. Police had decided not to shut the rave down but instead to control the party by blocking […]

A man has been charged with rape and other offenses after he kidnapped a Queens woman with a knife. Jonathan Coronel, 21, is charged with rape, robbery, kidnapping, criminal possession of a weapon, unlawful imprisonment, and criminal contempt. Police say he held his ex-girlfriend captive for nine hours after he kidnapped her in public on […]

The wreckage of the missing Indonesian plane carrying 54 passengers has been found by villagers in the remote western Papua region, according to officials. Ground control lost contact with the Trigana Air plane at 14:55 local time (05:55 GMT) as it flew from the provincial capital Jayapura to the town of Oksibil. Fifty-four total passengers […]

The theft of prized scrap metal in a California attorney’s yard was enough for him to kill the man he believed was trying to steal it. But he was not alone. According to an affidavit in the case, Modesto defense attorney Frank Carson had help from three California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers, corrupt friends, his […]

The Santa Cruz County Coroner has released the official cause of death for 8-year-old Madyson Middleton after an autopsy was performed. The autopsy revealed that Madyson “Maddy” Middleton died from asphyxiation and stab wounds to the neck. The Sheriff’s Office has stated that Madyson was not strangled, but died from positional asphyxiation due to the […]

An Alabama high school student was arrested after being overheard making a threat to bring a gun to school and shoot some of his classmates, according to a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department release. AL reports that high school senior Mark Anthony Woodruff, 18, was arrested at his home at approximately 7 a.m. on Wednesday. Woodruff […]

It’s time for back to school shopping, which could mean big expenses for parents. In fact, the National Retail Federation (NRF) reports that back to school expenses have risen 42 percent in the past decade. Families are expected to spend up to $630.36 on back to school supplies, and nationwide spending is estimated to reach […]

The 16-day long search for the two missing Florida teen boaters has been brought to an end. According to a family spokesperson, the families of Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen have announced that the search for the two teens that has spanned hundreds of miles along the Atlantic Coast will end. The spokesperson added that […]

The end of an era has arrived as Jon Stewart has signed off for the last time on The Daily Show Thursday night. Big-time stars, such as Bruce Springsteen, were featured to help send Stewart off, and emotional tributes were given from former guests and national names such as Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Elmo […]

A mother and daughter in Pennsylvania were arrested after police say they were caught shooting heroin in their car with the daughter’s 6-month-old son in the backseat. Police say they were called to the Sheetz on Harvey Avenue in Greensburg on Wednesday around 11:16 a.m. The caller, who just happened to be a Children and […]

An experimental gel that contains a drug used to treat the AIDS virus may prevent half of genital herpes cases in women, according to a new South African study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The annual rates of herpes simplex virus type-2 infection (also known as HSV-2) were 10.2 percent using tenofovir […]

With the recent legalization of marijuana by many states in the United States, the drug has become more widely available. Because of this, concerns over long-term health effects have also become more common. However, a new study has found that frequent marijuana usage in teenage males does not run the risk of creating mental or […]

Instagram has officially banned another hashtag, as EDM (a popular abbreviation for electronic dance music) has been added to their blacklist. The block on the EDM hashtag was initiated because Instagram discovered that users were using the hashtag to upload and display nude pictures. The ban means the hashtag can no longer be searched on […]

The man accused of helping American dentist Walter Palmer kill Cecil the Lion told NBC News that he feel he’s done nothing wrong. Theo Bronkhorst, a 55-year-old professional Zimbabwean hunter, allegedly was paid $50,000 by Palmer to lure the lion out of the wildlife reserve so Palmer could shoot and kill the animal. As reported […]

High doses of vitamin D are now found to not improve the strength of bones in postmenopausal women, according to new research. A recent study published in JAMA shows that although low levels of vitamin D in the body are associated with a greater risk of developing osteoporosis, high supplemental doses of the vitamin do […]

Early pancreatic cancer detection could now be as easy as a urine test, according to scientists at the Barts Cancer Institute of Queen Mary University in London. The team has discovered a three protein combination that can accurately detect early stage pancreatic cancer. This discovery could not only lead to a non-invasive and inexpensive way […]

Children with traumatic brain injury are more likely to have attention problems and suffer from longer reaction times than those children who experience any other kind of bodily trauma. The new study, published in the journal Pediatrics, is the first study to ever show the relationship between traumatic brain injury and a decline of attention […]

Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof pleaded not guilty to the 33 federal charges in the June shooting at Emmanuel African Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Earlier this month, Roof was indicted by a grand jury with 33 counts, which included federal hate crimes and firearms charges, in the shooting that killed nine people. Twenty-one-year-old […]

Prostate cancer has been found to have five distinctively different types, according to a new study published in EBio Medicine. This discovery suggests that different treatments could be targeted to help patients, as doctors can now identify which tumors are more likely to grow and multiply. Researchers from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge institute tested […]