Boston, MA

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Strasburg, VA

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Tracy Leicher

RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, Va. – Virginia State Police (VSP) are investigating a single-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a Strasburg woman. According to an emailed media release from VSP Sergeant Brent W. Coffey, the incident occurred Saturday, April 13 on US Highway 211.

Woman Suffers Possible Medical Emergency; Dies In Crash

Three Rivers, MI

The Bendr Daily

Three Rivers, Mich. - Three store owners in Three Rivers are facing charges after allegedly labor trafficking a woman who was brought to the United States under the pretext of marriage.

Three Charged After Woman Forced to Work at Three Rivers Store for 8 Years With No Pay

Texas State

Houston, TX

Lance R. Fletcher

A Texas teacher and her husband are now in custody, accused of taking thousands of dollars from home renovation clients and gambling away money they took for work they never finished.

Texas teacher and husband arrested, accused of gambling away $1.53 million in home renovation scam

New Jersey State

Middlesex County, NJ

Woodbridge Township, NJ

Morristown Minute

Middlesex County Woman conspired to fraudulently obtain over $400,000 in pandemic relief funds. Yanira Abreu, 42, of Keasbey, New Jersey, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for her role in a scheme to illegally obtain more than $400,000 in COVID-19 unemployment benefits, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Abreu had previously pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Robert Kirsch, who imposed the sentence on May 9, 2024, in Trenton federal court.

Woman Gets Two Years for Stealing COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits

Wyoming State

Laramie, WY

The Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — Federal appellate court judges expressed doubt Tuesday about whether they could rule on a transgender woman’s admission into a University of Wyoming sorority or if a lower court should continue to hear the case. The admission of Artemis Langford into the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority...

Appeal judges voice doubts about ruling on transgender woman’s admission into Wyoming sorority

Arkansas State

Bentonville, AR

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Walmart on Tuesday announced layoffs affecting several hundred jobs at the retail giant’s campus offices. It also said it will require most remote workers and personnel in its Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto offices to relocate to its primary offices in Bentonville, Arkansas; Hoboken, New Jersey; and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Walmart lays off hundreds of employees and requires others to relocate

Utah State

Park City, UT

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband, then published a children’s book about coping with grief, will appear in court Wednesday for a hearing that will determine whether state prosecutors have enough evidence against her to proceed with a trial. Kouri Richins, 33, faces several felony charges for allegedly killing her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022 at their home in a small mountain town near Park City. Prosecutors say she slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a Moscow mule cocktail that Eric Richins, 39, drank. She previously tried to kill him with a spiked sandwich on Valentine’s Day, charging documents allege. In the months leading up to her arrest in May 2023, the mother of three self-published the children’s book “Are You with Me?” about a father with angel wings watching over his young son after passing away. The book could play a key role for prosecutors in framing the crime as a calculated murder with an elaborate cover-up attempt.

Utah judge to decide if author of children's book on grief will face trial in her husband's death

Las Vegas, NV

Henderson, NV

The Quick Historian

In a distressing incident that has shaken the community, Nevada parents Misty and Jeffery Scanlan have been arrested on charges of child abuse/neglect after their 11-year-old child was found confined in a "large metal enclosure." The arrest came to light when officers were summoned to investigate a truancy issue.

Parents arrested after 11-year-old found in metal enclosure

Indiana State

Santaquin, UT

A truck driver accused of intentionally killing a police officer during a traffic stop on a Utah highway had been holding a woman against her will inside the cab of his truck, new court documents reveal. Michael Aaron Jayne, 42, is accused of driving his rig into Santaquin Police Sgt....

Truck driver accused of intentionally killing Utah officer had been holding a woman against her will

Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is expected to plead not guilty Tuesday to bank and tax fraud, a formality ahead of a plea deal he’s negotiated with federal prosecutors in a wide-ranging sports betting case. Prosecutors said Ippei Mizuhara...

Ippei Mizuhara, ex-interpreter for MLB star Shohei Ohtani, likely to plead not guilty as a formality

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Brookline, MA

Dorchester, MA

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Dorchester Center, MA

Allston, MA

Somerville, MA

Brighton, MA

The trial of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend is set to begin. Karen Read faces second-degree murder and other charges in the death of John O’Keefe in 2022. (AP Video shot and produced by Rodrique Ngowi.)

Trial starts in conspiracy-fueled case of girlfriend charged in Boston police officer’s death

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