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Cleveland, OH - CLEVELAND (AP) — The father of a woman killed by a convicted sex offender dived across a courtroom table to attack him Thursday shortly after a judge sentenced the defendant to death for killing three people and wrapping their bodies in garbage bags. Van Terry, the father of Shirellda Terry, had walked to the front of the courtroom to give a victim-impact statement and turned toward Michael Madison, who gave him a malicious smile. Terry lunged at Madison and was immediately swarmed by sheriff's deputies as Madison and his attorneys scrambled to get out of the way.

“So yesterday, Bailey, who is our makeup artist, we’re sitting in the makeup chair, and you know how us gals get when we’re sitting in the makeup chair. We just gab. So she said a friend of hers went into a Target, and there was this creepy guy who was just leaning up against the wall in the bathroom,” Glenn said. When the young woman looked at him as if to question, “What are you doing here?” he said, “I have every right to be here, and you can’t do anything about it.” She immediately left and reported the incident...

“Three families with young girls were unhappy Josh was so close to them and left the golf course when they saw him and Jim Bob,' a source told the magazine. 'The parents were not comfortable.” Still, there reportedly wasn’t much Old MacDonald Farm could do to stop the two from hitting the golf course. 'The staff tried to be as polite as possible to the angry parents, but it seemed there was little they could do to stop Josh from being a customer,” the source explained. “I don’t know if Josh and Jim Bob were aware of the problems their...

The former president of Charlotte's LGBT Chamber of Commerce has resigned after he came under fire from a conservative group, which noted that he is on a sex offender list and questioned his role in supporting the city's expanded nondiscrimination ordinance. Chad Sevearance-Turner had been the president of the chamber, which supported the newly expanded ordinance that gives legal protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals. . . . Sevearance-Turner was arrested in 1998, when he was 20, and charged in Cherokee County, S.C., with a "lewd act, committing or attempting a lewd act upon a child under 16."...

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Office arrested a man after a domestic disturbance this morning. Joshua Paul Young, 34 of Sissonville was arrested after the police responded to a domestic incident along Centennial Drive in Charleston around 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. According to the police report, the officer arrived to the scene and spoke to the victim, Young's ex-girlfriend. The victim told the officer that Young drove her and her child around in a vehicle, stopped, jerked her out of the vehicle, and hit her with brass knuckles several times.

MEMPHIS, TN - A violent sex offender was stopped by police with five children in his car—none of them were his. Police said Jerome Sawyer, a registered sex offender who is listed as a violent sex offender for aggravated sexual battery, was stopped on Ridgeway Road south of Winchester Road for not having a seat belt. Officers found two boys and three girls, ages five to 11, inside the car. Sawyer told police he was on the sex offender registry for assaulting three children ages six and seven in 1999 and 1987. Sawyer told police the children in the car...

Jurors returned a guilty verdict Wednesday against a Santa Rosa man who claimed he could not be held responsible for molesting a 13-year-old girl because he was sleepwalking. Loren Rodriguez-Martinez, 60, now faces up to eight years in prison and lifetime sex-offender registration for the Aug. 4, 2014, assault at a Santa Rosa motel. Prosecutors said the man was alone in a room with the girl when she awoke from a nap to find him molesting her. He claimed he also had been napping in a separate bed and had no memory of the attack. The man presented testimony during...

OX 5 NY) - Convicted pedophile and former Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle was reportedly assaulted by an inmate in prison where Fogle is serving a 16-year sentence. Fogle, 38, was tackled and punched in the face by a 60-year-old armed robber, TMZ reported. Steven Nigg, 60 left Fogle with a bloody nose, swollen face and scratches on his neck after the recreation yard beatdown on Jan. 29, the site reported

Mayor-Turned-Child-Sex Offender Arrested Near School for 3rd Time Former Pittsburg, California mayor Marcelino Vasquez — a convicted sex offender — was arrested outside a school last week for the third time in five months. Pittsburg police Capt. Ron Raman stated that Vasquez was arrested near Marina Vista Elementary last week, according to the Contra Costa Times. Vasquez was a rising political figure until 1972 ,when he was convicted for lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age. The Times reports that Vasquez served on the Pittsburg City Council and “took a turn as mayor” in the...

One day before former president Bill Clinton arrives in New Hampshire to campaign for his wife, Hillary Clinton, she was confronted with questions about allegations involving his sexual history at a town hall meeting in the state on Sunday. State Rep. Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien (R) repeatedly interrupted Clinton during the meeting, which was held in a middle school gymnasium. Prudhomme-O'Brien has for years followed the former first lady, peppering her with questions about allegations of past sexual misconduct by Bill Clinton. The state lawmaker's outbursts startled an otherwise friendly town hall audience.

ROELAND PARK, Kan. -- The Roeland Park Police Department is making headlines again -- for good deeds. In July, an officer helped a young mother who was caught stealing diapers. She was later booked on federal drug charges, but officers say nothing is going to stop them from being good Samaritans. What one officer did this week, is proof. Following a call for suspicious person at a park, officers arrived to find a greater story. “Sometimes I have to sleep outside because I want to keep my job. That's just how it is,” Samuel Meixueiro said.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ - A man convicted twice of public sexual indecency is behind bars again. This time, for not following the rules of his sentence. Jose Francisco Arias-Fernandez recently returned from Mexico after being deported in January 2015. He’s been living in an apartment along Cherry Lynn in Scottsdale. Karina Cruz lives nearby and had no idea her neighbor has a history. In 1994 Arias-Fernandez was convicted of public sexual indecency. Police say he re-offended in 2010. He was sentenced to lifetime probation and required to register as a sex offender. But when he came back from Mexico, he thought...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas inmate Daniel Lee Lopez has been trying to speed up his execution since being sent to death row five years ago for striking and killing a police lieutenant with an SUV during a chase. On Wednesday, he's hoping to get his wish. The 27-year-old prisoner is set to die in Huntsville after getting court approval to drop his appeals. A second inmate scheduled to be executed this week in Texas, the nation's most active death penalty state, won a court reprieve Tuesday. Lopez is facing lethal injection for the 2009 death of Corpus Christi Lt....

A convicted sex offender charged last week with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Santa Clarita is in the country illegally and had recently been released on bail from immigration custody, according to federal authorities.. Keane Dean, 26, a citizen of the Philippines, was released in April on $10,000 bond so he could be free while he contested his immigration case. He had been targeted for deportation because of his criminal record. The 14-year-old girl, who was found in Dean's garage, told investigators that Dean befriended her at a grocery store the previous day, according to the Los Angeles County...

A convicted sex offender charged last week with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Santa Clarita is in the country illegally and had recently been released on bail from immigration custody, according to federal authorities. Keane Dean, 26, a citizen of the Philippines, was released in April on $10,000 bond so he could be free while he contested his immigration case. He had been targeted for deportation because of his criminal record. The 14-year-old girl, who was found in Dean's garage, told investigators that Dean befriended her at a grocery store the previous day, according to the Los Angeles County...

Eight years ago, Alice gave a thorough and detailed account of events that are nearly identical to those outlined in the police report that became public this week: "In January, the whole family went to Chicago and taped Oprah Winfrey show... As you may have noticed, that show never aired and it never will," Alice posted before delivering the bombshell that The Oprah Winfrey Show staffers had been told that Josh had molested five minor girls. Alice then wrote, "Yes, this is the truth ... They have been investigated to some length..." On the subject of Josh's parents Jim Bob,...

Rajendra Pachauri, one of the world’s most famous climate officials, is being investigated under three sections of the Indian Penal Code relating to sexual assault, harassment, and stalking. He has resigned as longtime chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), resigned from the Indian Prime Minister’s climate council, and has been disinvited from speaking at a conference at Harvard University. Currently on leave from The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the New Delhi-based entity he has led for three decades, Pachauri has been banned by the courts from entering TERI facilities and from contacting anyone who works...

Barry Freundel, Rabbi Charged With Voyeurism, Appears in Court By James Doubek and Chris Gordon View Comments (0) | Email | Print At a status hearing prosecutors requested more time to review evidence in the case against former Kesher Israel Rabbi Barry Freundel, who's accused of secretly recording women in a sacred bath. (Published Friday, Jan 16, 2015) Jan 16, 2015 • Jewish women demonstrated Friday outside the D.C. courthouse where an Orthodox rabbi accused of secretly videotaping women taking a ritual bath was appearing, as prosecutors sought to scour his computers for more possible victims. Barry Freundel, 63, is...

It is important not to lie to the Sheriff, or to other peace officers.  Remember, you have the right to keep silent.  It is far better to keep silent, or to say "I want to cooperate with the Sheriff, but my lawyer has told me not to make a statement until I talk to him. In this incident, in Sedgwick County, Kansas, many people were skeptical about the story originally told by the home owner.   From kwch.com: Moments later, the resident told authorities he heard gunshots. When he looked out his window, he said he saw the man lying...

A convicted sexual offender is now a multimillionaire after claiming a $3 million Scratch-Off prize in Florida, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Records indicate that Timothy Poole, 43, was arrested 12 times on charges ranging from sexual battery of a victim under 12 to grand theft, the Sentinel said. In 1991, he was arrested for stealing almost $20,000 in food stamps from an Ocala Insurance company, where he worked as a guard. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, Poole served three months in prison in 1996 and did a second stint from 2003 to 2006. There are no laws...