In another case of over sharing on social media, a Mexican teen brutally stabbed her best friend to death for posting naked selfies of them together on Facebook. The New York Daily News reports: Erandy Elizabeth Gutierrez, 16, allegedly knifed Anel Baez, also 16, a horrifying 65 times. Cops believe she wanted revenge for the “humiliating” […]
A baptism on a Southern California beach ended in tragedy when three people were swept into the ocean by a wave Sunday. According to a story from the Santa Maria Times: The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for a 43-year-old man, Benito Flores, who was one of the three pulled into the […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Authorities kept hundreds of thousands of people out of their beds early Wednesday after a magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile’s northern coast. Five people were crushed to death or suffered fatal heart attacks, a remarkably low toll for such a powerful shift in the Earth’s crust. The extent of damage from […]
Jessie Baskin was sentenced to 51 weeks in the county jail, five years of probation and 300 hours of community service for participating in the beating death of 26-year-old Robert Champion, the drum major for the Florida A&M marching band who was hazed to death in November 2011. In a hearing that lasted nearly three […]
The tragic car crash that occurred in Austin on March 18 during SXSW has claimed another victim. DeAndre Tatum, 18 years old, passed away from injuries sustained in the violent hit and run. Tatum’s girlfriend was also injured in the crash. After being hospitalized, she was released on March 18th. Rashad Charjuan Owens, the suspect who […]
BOSTON (AP) — Boston residents mourned the deaths of two firefighters who were killed when a fire driven by strong winds whipped through a brownstone and trapped them in the basement in a neighborhood just blocks from where nine city firefighters died in a 1972 hotel collapse. Tributes poured in for Lt. Edward J. Walsh, […]
ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Rescuers slogging through muck and rain Tuesday in an increasingly desperate search for survivors of a massive mudslide instead recovered two bodies and believe they have located another eight, Washington state officials said. The official death toll rose to 16, with the possibility of 24 dead once the other bodies are […]
Georgia, assistant district attorney has ordered a communications company to hand over Internet records after investigators received an anonymous e-mail claiming an ex-schoolmate reportedly confessed to killing Kendrick Johnson. CNN reports: The anonymous e-mail tip is dated January 27. The sender of the e-mail does not suggest he or she personally witnessed a confession; instead, […]
When it comes to getting props on the internet, people will go to extreme lengths just for a virtual co-sign. One Spanish young man paid…
The fallout from the death of Whitney Houston is still happening two years since she passed. One of the responding officers is suing the LAPD…
While the film world was mourning the loss of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor LeVar Burton was on Twitter damn near inciting a virtual…
Oscar-winning and critically acclaimed actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday afternoon in his New York City apartment, reports the Wall Street Journal. Read more below from WSJ: The New York Police Department is investigating, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is working to determine the exact cause of death. The […]
