A high school student’s essay led to the arrest of a man who admitted raping her and her two sisters when they were children.

The Oregonian reported on Tuesday that 68-year-old romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, who was accused of killing her husband last week, once wrote an theoretical article on how one might kill their husband. Crampton Brophy was charged on September 6 with the murder Daniel Brophy, a 63-year-old chef who was…

A Texas man who allegedly shot and injured several women drivers has been accused of targeting them because he believes only men should be allowed to get behind the wheel.

Adam W. Purinton, the man who killed an Indian immigrant and wounded another two men at a bar last February as he yelled, “Get out of my country,” has been sentenced to three consecutive life prison sentences on federal hate crime and firearm charges.

On his way to deliver a U.S. Naval Academy commencement address, Trump left the question of his cancelled summit with North Korea hanging (“We’ll see what happens, it could even be the 12th”) and was asked for his thoughts on Harvey Weinstein’s arrest. Oh boy!

There’s an image stuck in my brain that’s been haunting me. It’s a matter of public record, and has even been published in the New York Times, but it’s my instinct to refrain from describing it here. On the off chance that you haven’t read much about the Krim children, Lucia and Leo, 6 and 2, who were stabbed to death…

A Long Island, New York judge was arrested on Thursday after his neighbor accused him of breaking into her home and stealing her underwear. Erm. Erlck. Ergglg. Glarg.

On the third day of the trial of Yoselyn Ortega, the New York City nanny who killed two of her charges, the jury was instructed to inspect a photo of the bodies of Leo Krim, 2, and Lucia “Lulu” Krim, 6. As the picture was passed from person to person, a flash of red visible from the gallery, a juror’s lip began to…

Full disclosure: this story doesn’t really make sense and that’s precisely why I’ve *ahem* cherry-picked it for blogging. It also might be based on an Encyclopedia Brown story, I don’t know, I haven’t read them all.

Angelika Graswald, the 37-year-old Poughkeepsie woman who was sentenced to prison after she admitted to fatally tampering with her fiancé’s kayak, still claims she didn’t try to kill him. “I was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, bottom line,” she told the New York Times in an interview on Friday. “I was in…

A man who had previously been arrested on domestic violence charges twice and released pending trial, shot and killed his ex-girlfriend on the street on Tuesday, NBC New York reports. Law enforcement sources told NBC New York that Kareem Dawson, 31, chased after and shot Tiffany Wilson, 28, who was the mother of his…

Well, hooo-ly shit. In a startling update to the long-mysterious case of actress Natalie Wood’s 1981 drowning death, Los Angeles County investigators have told CBS News’ 48 Hours that they believe then-husband Robert Wagner is a “person of interest” in the case, which was reopened in 2011 after initially being ruled…

Bruce McArthur, a Toronto-area landscaper and part-time mall Santa, has been charged with first-degree murder for the deaths of five men, and police have announced that they anticipate more victims to surface.

A Florida man was arrested this week after he allegedly attempted to electrocute his estranged pregnant wife by rigging the front door of his home with a car battery charger.

The Associated Press reported on Thursday that 37-year-old Poughkeepsie resident Angelika Graswald—who admitted in June 2016 to removing the plug and paddle from her fiancé’s kayak in 2015, which resulted in his death by drowning—was released from prison.

For the second time in two years, Track Palin, the eldest son of Sarah Palin and an army veteran, was arrested on domestic violence charges. According to online court records, Palin was charged with felony burglary (involving an injury or attempted injury), misdemeanor reckless assault, and misdemeanor criminal…

Indonesia’s constitutional court narrowly voted to reject a petition that would make sex outside of marriage a crime, though activists remain concerned that the battle will continue in parliament and elsewhere thanks to increasing conservative sentiment gaining strength throughout the country.

Georgia police announced on Wednesday that they identified a suspect who they say stole absolutely everything out of R. Kelly’s two Atlanta homes while the singer was on tour, then probably sold the items off.

A South African high court has increased Oscar Pistorius’s prison sentence from six years to 13 years and five months, following his conviction in 2016 for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Okay, so we’ve been over the basics of this bizarre Rand Paul story, but let’s skim through it once more, because there are more weird updates and I am about to hitch a ride down to Bowling Green my goddamn self to investigate why a U.S. Senator is being so coy about getting physically attacked by his neighbor of 17…