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An Alabama woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after pleading guilty to capital murder for placing her newborn son in a dumpster. She threw him into the trash compactor because, as she told investigators, having a baby “cost too much money.” Houston County Circuit Judge Henry D. Binford on Monday sentenced Jakayla Ashanti Williams, 21, to life without the possibility of parole. Williams accepted a last-minute plea deal moments before jury selection, avoiding the death penalty prosecutors had sought. Williams was 18 in August 2023 when she secretly gave birth to a baby boy at her...

A Lake Charles home care worker was arrested and fired after giving bleach to his disabled client to drink, police said. In security video from inside the client’s home, the employee, identified by police as Reginald Andre Wilson, is seen pouring a substance from a large jug into a water bottle. He then returns the jug to the laundry area of the home before shaking the bottle and handing it to his client saying, “Here, drink this.” Detectives said the victim is physically and mentally disabled. The victim reportedly drank from the bottle and noticed it tasted like bleach. According...

The woman accused of fatally stabbing an elderly Mount Dora, Florida, couple on New Year’s Eve 2022 has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and her lawyers are arguing the murders were driven by psychosis. Opening statements began this week for the trial in the fatal stabbings of Florida couple Darryl Getman, 83, and Sharon Getman, 80. The Getmans were found stabbed to death in their home after they invited Vickie Lynn Williams into their home to help her out. Williams’ DNA was found on the murder weapons, and her fingerprints and bloody footprints were at the scene. Testimony...

As he stood before a bathroom mirror at a Wyoming rest area off Interstate 80, a Sacramento truck driver saw a strange man step up behind him. The stranger slammed a fist into his head, then plunged a knife into his arms, chest and rib cage, the 28-year-old trucker later recalled.

A charity worker who allegedly took massive bribes in exchange for pouring millions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of a corrupt homeless service bigwig was busted by the feds in a sweeping operation that targeted infamous homeless services fraud in that’s crippling Los Angeles. FBI agents in a dramatic raid swarmed the South Los Angeles home of Lakiya Malone just before dawn, taking to bullhorns and yelling for her to “come out!” As the SSG worker emerged, she was placed in handcuffs by men in Kevlar vests, while others trained rifles on her house. FBI agents collared Malone, 48,...

It’s not just the violent crime, but their disposition while behind the wheel we have to watch out for. Anecdotal evidence is still evidence—which is then almost always backed up by the data. This morning while driving my son to school, I was behind someone who was driving like a total a-hole. He/she was speeding through the school zones (there’s three schools all on the same half-mile stretch of road), and he/she was absolutely riding the person in front. I made an educated guess, and predicted the driver was… black. And it turned out I was right: the driver was...

CONSTITUTION X@ConstitustionX·9hTHIS IS WHAT A REAL AMERICAN WARRIOR LOOKS LIKE Shot down over IRAN.Parachute shredded in the missile strike.Looks up…NO CHUTE.Free-falling 70-100 mph toward enemy mountains with a broken back coming.He doesn’t panic.He PAUSES.And prays:“Lord, Your will be done. But if I’m getting through this… I NEED HELP.”Then he fights the chute with his bare hands the whole way down.Hits the ground like a freight train.Broken back. Broken arm. Broken shoulder.Still crawls away. Still hides. Still evades Iranian forces for TWO DAYS with no food or water.Calls it a “modern-day miracle.”THIS is the kind of man who wears the uniform.THIS...

A 21-year-old man barely survived after he was shot three times during an encounter with a ‘street takeover’ in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood last weekend. Matthew Lanske and his friends had just finished dinner in Belltown when they were confronted by a group of armed thugs participating in a ‘street takeover.’ Lanske was shot twice in the stomach and a third time in the pelvis during an attempted robbery as he heroically tried to protect his friend, who tragically died. After being shot three times, Lanske walked two blocks looking for help. Bystanders filmed him rather than calling 911 for help....

Law enforcement officers met an American Airlines flight upon its arrival at Miami International Airport late Friday night following reports of a female passenger undressing and behaving indecently mid-flight. American Airlines Flight 1779 departed Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) just after 9 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 11, 2025, nearly two hours behind its scheduled departure time, according to public flight-tracking data. The flight landed in Miami at approximately 11:23 p.m. EDT. As the Airbus A319 was en route to Florida, flight attendants alerted the cockpit crew to a disturbance involving a passenger in row 9. According to Aircraft...

BROOKLYN, NY – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Zakia Khan was sentenced by United States District Judge Natasha C. Merle to 76 months in prison in connection with her leadership role in carrying out a $64 million Medicaid fraud and illegal kickback scheme at her two social adult daycare centers and a home health care company. In August 2025, Khan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay health care kickbacks. As part of her sentence, Khan was also ordered to pay over $56 million in restitution and...

An incredibly bloody and horrific crime occurred earlier this week in Texas that could have been avoided had authorities done their job. As FOX 7 Austin reported, 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt, an accomplished civil engineer who published several notable works, was seen in video footage obtained from a neighborhood HOA sitting on a park bench in Round Rock at roughly 10:55 a.m. on September 7. Then his life ended a few minutes later. The footage goes on to show a black male with a knife in his hand sneaking up behind Wimsatt. The black person proceeds to stab Wimsatt multiple...

Authorities are searching for multiple black male suspects involved in a violent campus brawl at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. The fight involved weapons, including a knife and baseball bats.The incident occurred around 7 pm on Tuesday outside of the Holton-Hooker Living Center. Police said two individuals have been taken into custody on obstruction charges, while several others remain at large, according to local news. Officers arrived on the scene and located one individual with cuts on his hand. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment. Another person sustained knee and hand injuries, but declined medical care,...

She was cruising for revenge. A Louisiana cruise passenger was allegedly scammed out of nearly $1,100 for her Caribbean getaway before she tracked down the man she blames and confronted him aboard the same ship. Vanessa Phillips planned to sail aboard the MSC Seascape on a Western Caribbean cruise from Galveston, Texas, on Aug. 30 to Sept. 6, with Armonte Domious Wilson, an associate she met on a cruise in December 2025.

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. (WESH) - Officials in Florida say a couple were arrested for abusing four children whom they allegedly held captive in a tractor-trailer for six years. Keisha Epps, 51, and Tamra Stewart, 37, are facing multiple felony charges relating to the battering, molestation and neglect of four children, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday. The children were held captive in the sleeper cab of a tractor-trailer for six years, he said. “This was a rolling prison,” Uthmeier said. The victims in the case – two girls and two boys – ranged in age from 5 to 9...

An unruly mob of 500 teenagers swarmed a Colorado Burger King and supermarket in a chaotic “takeover” on Sunday. Video footage shared on social media shows the out-of-control miscreants shouting in a Burger King, standing on tables, and then breaking into fisticuffs amongst each other. Watch Below: VIDEO AT LINK.................... The uncontrollable mob — many of whom were between 14 and 17 years old — took over the Hoffman Heights Shopping Center in Aurora, Colorado, at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, the Aurora Police Department said. “The gathering appears to have been organized through social media around an unpermitted sporting event,”...

The funeral for a Florida teen who died in a shooting devolved into violent mayhem over the weekend when mourners allegedly attempted a street takeover and cops fired mace balls at them. Loved ones grieving the death earlier this month of Nigel Beckford, 19, in Boynton Beach claimed that officers unfairly attacked them after they had buried the teen and left the gravesite Saturday. Five men were arrested, and sheriff’s deputies found four stolen firearms when the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office gang unit broke up the unruly situation, WPBF reported. “We’re just coming from the graveyard!” Beckford’s aunt Shanna Burks...

TCU receiver Dozie Ezukanma was hospitalized for three days due to a brain bleed, a concussion and other injuries after then-teammate Jacob Fields allegedly assaulted him in the locker room, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by Fort Worth Star Telegram. Fields, who was arrested Sunday, was allegedly not happy that Ezukanma was outplaying him in practice, which resulted in the alleged altercation. The transfer from Louisiana Tech was dismissed from the team on Aug. 18, and was recently charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury after turning himself in. Fields was released later Sunday from the Tarrant...

Aurora police are investigating after a large group of people rushed into a grocery store and restaurant, then stole items and vandalized property. This happened after hundreds of teens gathered to see social media influencers in a parking lot, according to a worker at a nearby business and social media posts. Police said there were as many as 500 people, from 14 years old to 17 years old, in the parking lot and declared it an unlawful assembly. The Aurora Police Department told FOX31 that officers were called to the area of East 6th Avenue and Peoria Street around 1:30...

An (Black) enraged Amazon delivery driver was filmed punching an elderly (white) man at a gas station after the pair clashed over a parking spot. New surveillance footage released by Elk Grove police shows suspect Terrence Wheeler, 30, allegedly striking a 71-year-old man in the head at an Arco gas station in Northern California back in March. Shocking video showed an irate Wheeler following the elderly man into the store before confronting and shouting at him. As the elderly man strolled past, Wheeler is seen winding up before allegedly slugging him in the head. Wheeler's punch was so forceful that...

A 14-year-old Georgia girl murdered her mom — shooting her in the back of the head when she was in bed — after chickening out of a planned school shooting “inspired” by mass killers. Lilyana Wagner’s cold-blooded killing of mom Rachel Wagner, 51, was discovered after she crashed her mom’s car in Tinton in November 2024 — and was found with the center of her hair shaved off, it emerged Monday as the now-16-year-old killer was sentenced to life in prison. After the crash, cops tried calling the mom, who did not answer and had not turned up at work...