On Wednesday, a judge dismissed Jennifer Lopez’s $20 million extortion lawsuit she had filed filed against her former driver Habob Manoukian. Manoukian filed a lawsuit against JLO in Los Angeles, Calif. in May for breach-of-contract alleging that he was not allowed to take lunch breaks and didn’t get paid for…
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Teen wanted for killing at Seattle bar
Melvin A. Ehrlich, 52, is a pediatric dentist being charged with possession and distribution of child pornography according to a news release from the Middlesex district attorney’s office. Ehrlich was arraigned Thursday in Framingham District Court on three counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of distribution of…
41-year-old man charged with sexually abusing two young children
Scott Allen Stoner, a 41-year-old former Hollywood resident and registered sex offender from Las Vegas is being charged with sexually abusing two children. A young was forced to perform oral sex and touch his genitals from the age of 4 until she was 12. The same man molested a young…
At Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut Saturday a gunman shot dead 20 children and six adults
At Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut Saturday a gunman shot dead 20 children and six adults before taking his own life. The bodies of those killed were transported to the office of the state medical examiner for post-mortem examinations. The shooter was identified by law enforcement officials as…
22 year old opens fire on holiday shoppers
Jacob Roberts, 22, wore a hockey-like face mask and opened fire on holiday shoppers Tuesday at the Clackamas Town Center in Happy Valley, Oregon. He killed two people and then took his own life. Roberts Facebook page led to an interview with Brittany Curry, 21, who claims to have dated…
George Zimmerman maintains that the cries for help in the 911 phone-call were his
George Zimmerman’s defense team have maintained their client’s innocence, saying Zimmerman was badly beaten and acted in self-defense. They have challenged key pieces of the prosecution’s case. One of the most potentially essential pieces of evidence deals with the screaming in the 911 phone call. Determining who was the person…
New York nanny accused of murdering two children pleaded not guilty
The New York nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, accused of murdering a 6-year-old girl and her 2-year-old baby brother pleaded not guilty Wednesday to first and second-degree murder. Upon returning home one night, the mother found both children dead in a bathtub in their New York home in late October. When the…
Defendants accused of attempted domestic terrorism were sentenced
On April 30 an undercover operation was executed to prevent what is commonly referred to as domestic terrorism. Four men have been convicted of the crime associated with the above operation. Authorities say Douglas Wright was the suspected ringleader of the attempted attack. Wright and co-conspirators admitted their plan to…
Authorities maintain their search for two suspects in a bus stop beating
Authorities continue the search for two youths suspected of beating and robbing a 17-year-old boy on a Broward County Transit bus in September. The incident occurred at a bus stop on the 1500 block of W. Sunrise Blvd. Investigators have released a surveillance video in which three suspects, one in…
A man was killed during a shootout at a Detroit police station
A 64-year-old man was killed Sunday in a shootout at a Detroit police station. He first tried to shoot an officer behind bulletproof glass before officers exchanged gunfire with him. The shooter entered the building that houses the Southfield Police Department around 2:20 p.m. with a handgun and pointed it…