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Brie'ann Battle sued Kinder Kids and Artea Kirkland after classroom video showed a worker pinning her 4-year-old and lifting him by the ankles.

Hunter Smiley of Newcastle, Oklahoma, was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of his 9-month-old son and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.

A juvenile bottlenose dolphin washed up on West Mae's Beach in Cameron Parish with bullets in the brain, spine and heart. NOAA is still offering $20,000. No arrest has been…

A Nashville homeowner shot Anton Cosby in the arm as Cosby climbed through a kitchen window. Prosecutors cleared the homeowner as self-defense. Cosby later pleaded to felony vandalism and received…

Glenn Sullivan Sr. pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old and was sentenced to 50 years plus physical castration. The procedure cannot occur until a week before release, when he would…

The AEGIS Alliance investigation into the 1988 Three Rivers, Michigan murders of Cathy Sue Swartz and Christina Y. Shelton questions the official suspect and documents alleged police misconduct.

Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins survived a 2023 stabbing at HMP Wakefield, then was murdered there in October 2025. A Leeds jury was discharged in May 2026. Retrial is listed…

Operation Protect the Innocent arrested 141 people in seven days across five California counties. Later ICAC sweeps in the same region produced hundreds more arrests.

A multiagency Long Island investigation rescued about 89 dogs and arrested ten men in one of New York's largest dogfighting busts, spanning Suffolk, Nassau, New York City, and other states.

Polk County's six-day undercover sting arrested 17 people accused of seeking children online, including three Walt Disney World employees, two military veterans, a nurse, and a poker pro. They faced…