Editor’s Note: This story was originally published June 22, 2017. An investigative collaboration of 11 news organizations led by Carolina Public Press and reporting on sexual assault convictions in North Carolina was published this week.Aaliyah Palmer was at a party when a man pulled her into a bathroom for sex.She was willing. [...]
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N.C. law: Woman can’t back out of sex once underway
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Texas sheriff tracks down the Florida deputy that changed his life
A Lake County, Fla., deputy changed a little boy’s life when he arrested the man who was abusing the child’s mother.It was 1985.Fast forward 34 years and that little boy, Robert Chody, is now sheriff in Williamson County, Texas. He says Paul Peterson, the Lake County deputy from his childhood, inspired him to get into law enforcement.“I felt this calmness, peace, load lifted off my shoulders that I’ll never forget to this day,” [...]
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Texas bars chaplains from inmate execution chambers
Chaplains will no longer be allowed in the rooms in which Texas death row inmates are executed, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced Wednesday.All chaplains and spiritual advisers will continue to have access to the viewing room, where people can watch the execution, department officials said.The decision is in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on March 28 that postponed the execution of Texas inmate Patrick Murphy because his Buddhist religious adviser was [...]
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Florida man threatens to bring terror with an army of turtles
On seven occasions last weekend, a phone call was made to the police about a man disturbing the peace at Orlando-area Starbucks Coffee, Surfanista Cafe and Sassy Granny’s Smoothies locations.The man allegedly threatened to destroy everyone with his very own army of turtles, [...]
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Texas sheriff’s commander asked deputies to have sex with 'Live PD' producer, lawyer alleges
A Texas sheriff’s commander allegedly challenged his deputies during a staff meeting to have sex with a “Live PD” television show producer, according to a grievance filed this month.Attorney Robert McCabe told the Austin American-Statesman he filed a sexual harassment/improper conduct grievance April 4 with the Williamson County sheriff’s office against Cmdr. Steve Deaton. According to the grievance, Deaton was in a shift briefing with 20 deputies, [...]
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Shamed, schooled, shocked: A day in Florida county's class for johns
Loneliness. Trauma. Sex addictions. Whatever led more than two dozen people to engage in prostitution, they ended up together Friday at the West Palm Beach, Fla., Police Department, listening to law-enforcement officers, doctors and people who work with human-trafficking survivors share stories of sex work’s seedy underside.At times, they were shamed by the officers who busted them. At others, they were shown how their pursuit of pleasure fueled a culture of drug abuse and [...]
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Texas sheriff’s commander reprimanded over comment about sex with 'Live PD' producer
A Texas sheriff has orally reprimanded a member of his command staff for a sexual comment he made about a producer for the show “Live PD.”Cmdr. Steve Deaton was the subject of a complaint this month by attorney Robert McCabe that alleged Deaton challenged deputies in a meeting to have sex with the female producer. “Live PD” has been filming Williamson County deputies and featuring them on episodes that have recently aired on the A&E Network. [...]
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Illinois mobile home fire that killed five was intentionally set, authorities say
A mobile home fire that killed five people earlier this month near Goodfield, Ill., was started intentionally, authorities said.The deaths are considered homicides. An unidentified juvenile is being questioned.The mobile home park is just northeast of the village limits of Goodfield. The village of about 1,000 residents is located along Interstate 74 between Peoria and Bloomington-Normal.Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman issued his findings Thursday. They were a [...]
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Woman who served as the face of campaigns against drunken driving dies at 40
Jacqueline Saburido, who became the face of campaigns against drunken driving after she was severely burned in a wreck 20 years ago, died Saturday of cancer in Guatemala, according to her family.She was 40.Saburido’s cousin, José Saburido, said she had moved from her native Caracas, Venezuela, to Guatemala City several years ago to gain better access to medical treatment and medicines.José Saburido said Jacqui also had been undergoing facial [...]
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2 charged with beating disabled Mass. man after allegedly threatening to eat his dog
Two Massachusetts men are being held without bail after a 57-year-old disabled man alleged they threatened to eat his dog while he was on a walk with his wife Wednesday afternoon, then beat him with his own cane in the entryway to his apartment, according to police.Joshua Farias, 37, and Brian Souza Jr., 37, both of Fall River, Mass., were arraigned Thursday in district court on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a disabled person and felony [...]
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Florida high-schoolers find 22 pounds of pot while picking up trash
A group of Monroe County students doing volunteer beach clean-up during a field trip to Islamorada in the Florida Keys found more than just trash. They found a 22-pound bale of marijuana, the Miami Herald reported.“The package was reportedly discovered by students at Coral Shores High School during a field trip,” U.S. Border Patrol agent Adam Hoffner told the [...]
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Florida man fined $30,000 for tall grass. Now the city is foreclosing on his home.
Letting your grass grow too high might cost you — or at least it did for one Florida man.The city of Dunedin’s Code Enforcement Board moved to foreclose the home of Jim Ficken, 69, Tuesday after he failed to pay nearly $30,000 in code violation fines he accrued in 2018, the Tampa Bay Times reported.The city [...]
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California woman who tried to flush newborn baby gets probation
A California woman who authorities say tried to flush her newborn baby down a toilet in a McDonald's bathroom will serve no jail time.TV station KFDM reports that Sarah Lockner was on the clock, working for the Redwood, Calif., restaurant, when she gave birth in September 2017.A co-worker who walked into the bathroom claimed Lockner was holding the [...]
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Video camera caught caretaker striking patient at Texas dementia facility, police say
A video camera captured a caretaker assaulting a patient at a facility in Georgetown, Texas, for people with Alzheimer’s disease, according to an arrest affidavit.Nicholas Francis, 29, of Killeen, Texas, was charged with injury to the elderly, a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.The incident happened March 28 in the victim’s room at a memory care facility at Rocky Hollow Lake House at 1650 County Road 245 in Georgetown, the affidavit said. [...]
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Great-grandma arrested at Disney for CBD oil to sue Disney
The 69-year-old great-grandmother who was arrested for carrying CBD oil while visiting Disney World last month has planned to sue both Disney and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Orlando TV station WKMG reported.The North Carolina woman was using the CBD oil per her doctor’s suggestion to treat her arthritis, but a note from her [...]
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Elderly man dies after woman shoves him off Las Vegas bus, police say
Police in Las Vegas have charged a woman with murder after she allegedly shoved a 74-year-old man off a city bus, causing injuries that led to his death.According to TV station KLAS, Cadesha Bishop, 25, was yelling at other passengers on the bus March 21 when the victim, Serge Fournier, reportedly told her to "be nice."Bishop responded, police say, by [...]
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Baby ripped from womb of murdered Chicago teen clinging to life
A baby ripped from the womb of a murdered Chicago teen is clinging to life, officials said Friday.The baby, Yadiel Yovany Lopez, is in critical condition after suffering from a lack of oxygen in the minutes before he was born.Three people — Clarisa Figueroa, Desiree Figueroa and Piotr Bobak— have been charged in the murder of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, 19, [...]
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Ohio middle-schoolers investigated over report of urine, semen in crepes served to teachers
Felony charges could be filed against at least two Ohio middle school students who allegedly shared video of themselves putting bodily fluids into food eaten by several teachers.The incident took place Thursday morning at Hyatts Middle School in the Columbus area, where a home economics class had prepared crepes for teachers.“One student filmed some of it, and the video made its way around the school and fortunately to school administrators,” said Tracey Whited, [...]
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Baby ripped from dead mom's womb opens his eyes for the first time
A baby ripped from its dead mother's womb has reportedly opened his eyes for the first time.Yadiel Yovany Lopez still, however, remains in grave condition at a Chicago-area hospital, TV station WOAI reports. Doctors believe he went without oxygen for a period of time after his mother, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, was murdered.Chicago police say [...]
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WATCH: Texas sheriff's deputy survives after patrol car was hit by a train
A Texas sheriff's deputy is lucky to be alive after his patrol car was hit by a train this week.Several passersby caught the dramatic crash on video.In those videos, two Midland County sheriff's deputies are seen waiting for a train to pass at a marked railroad crossing. After the last car makes it past the intersection, one of the deputies drives around the crossing arms and is slammed by a second oncoming train that he apparently didn't see coming.The force of the [...]
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