Crime

Justin Gering and Tyler Tavis each received 60 months in federal prison for setting a sleeping Ottawa County Jail inmate on fire. A fire-retardant blanket saved the victim.

Tiffany Henyard, Dolton's self-styled super mayor, drew FBI subpoenas, lost the 2025 primary in a landslide, and is on the November 2026 Fulton County ballot as a Republican.

Colin Czech was indicted for murder, mayhem and attempted murder after allegedly beating Kenneth Brown to death near the Las Vegas Strip and chewing off an eye and ear.

Charles Ruth, 15, and Michael Kirby, 16, face third-degree felony pollution charges after a drone video showed trash cans emptied into the Atlantic leaving Boca Bash.

Mint Butterfield, 16, child of Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, was found uninjured in a Tenderloin van. Two adults were charged with child abduction.

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…