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Tonight on Merit Street Media, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace examines the tragic murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia. Riley’s body was discovered near a lake on campus on February 22, 2024, sparking outrage and a demand for justice. The focus of the investigation falls on Jose Antonio […]

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace: Laken Riley...

On tonight’s episode of Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, airing on Merit Street Media, the spotlight falls on the controversial figure of Jodi Arias and her life behind bars. One particular aspect of Arias’ incarceration draws scrutiny: her creation and sale of artwork, with one piece carrying a price tag of $2,500. Grace offers a […]

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Covers Jodi Arias Selling Her Art From Behind Bars, Monday Night on Merit...

On tonight’s Crime Stories Nancy Grace looks into the disturbing case of Carly Gregg, a 15-year-old convicted of killing her mother and attempting to murder her stepfather. The episode, airing on Merit Street Media, reveals the secret drug-related life that led to the shocking crimes. Grace examines the trial’s revelations, including the motivation behind Gregg’s […]

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace: Carlt Gregg...

In tonight’s episode of Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Merit Street Media, the spotlight turns to a disturbing case involving 29-year-old PhD student Nicole Virzi. Virzi stands accused of a heinous crime: the murder of a six-week-old baby boy, Leon Katz, and the injury of his twin brother. The incident occurred while Virzi was […]

Tonight on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Nicole Virzi could face the death penalty...

Merit Street Media laid off almost third of its employees on Friday, sources tell Deadline. The move comes four months after the launch of Dr. Phil McGraw’s news and entertainment TV network with Christian-based Trinity Broadcasting cable network as a main distribution partner, putting the new brand in more than 65 million homes on DirecTV and Dish among other able and satellite systems.

Almost 40 employees were impacted by the cuts, sources said, bringing the company’s headcount to about 100 for a close to 30% reduction. As recent hires, the laid-off workers did not qualify for severance and did not receive any, I hear.

“Following the brief summer hiatus of Dr. Phil Primetime, Merit Street implemented ongoing consolidations of departments and roles in efforts to achieve efficiencies at the highest level, which unfortunately resulted in some layoffs,” a Merit Street spokesperson said. “We are confidently getting better at what we do. Merit...

The fourth annual Truth Seekers Summit, presented by Paramount+ is only days away, live on August 15th from New York City. In celebration of the event, Rolling Stone and Variety are releasing their third annual Truth Seekers special issue for those who value journalism and documentary filmmaking.

The special issue will showcase interviews with some of the most distinguished professionals in the field. CNN foreign correspondent Clarissa Ward, known for her fearless reporting from conflict zones such as Ukraine and Gaza, shares her insights and experiences. Additionally, filmmaker Jamila Wignot...

With the Truth Seekers Summit presented by Paramount+ less than a month away—August 15th in The Big Apple—Rolling Stone and Variety have added more esteemed names to an already star-studded lineup.

In an era where truth and integrity in journalism are more crucial than ever, journalist and author E. Jean Carroll will be honored with the Truth Seeker Award. This accolade celebrates the extraordinary achievements of journalists and documentary filmmakers dedicated to unearthing the truth, and Carroll’s steadfast commitment to truth and justice is documented (most notably,...

In a year—a critical election year, at that—where the concept of “truth” is tested daily, Rolling Stone and Variety have teamed up again to host the fourth annual Truth Seekers Summit, presented by Paramount+. Taking place on August 15th in New York City, the exclusive invitation-only event will celebrate the journalists, documentarians, creatives, and notable figures in the media and entertainment industry who honor the truth with every fiber of their being.

Featuring a range of keynotes and panel discussions, the Summit will focus on excellence in documentary storytelling,...

In key appointments at Constantin Film, one of Europe’s biggest – and most ambitious – of production powerhouses, Viola Jäger and Jan Ehlert has been named as its new Chief Content Officers.

Jan Ehlert will head up TV/streaming, Viola Jäger oversee content for theatrical/film; both report to Constantin Film CEO Oliver Berben.

For years, Constantin has built its business on big international hits, such as the “Resident Evil” franchise, and a rock-solid domestic business powered by national blockbusters, such as, most recently, “Chantal and the Magic Kingdom,” which has sold over 2.6 million admissions in Germany.

Coming just a couple of months after Berben took over formally from Martin Moszkowicz as Constantin Film CEO, the new appointments are a play for continuity. Ehlert joined Moovie in 2000, just a year after Constantin head Berndt Eichinger had bought the Berben-headed company. Focusing on TV in his now 24-year career at Constantin Film,...

Oliver Berben didn’t just have idle dreams as a youngster about becoming an astronaut one day. He was actually working on a career in space by studying aerospace and space technology at a Berlin university well into his 20s.

But after stumbling into the movie industry through a part-time student job as a driver and runner, Berben realized that he had found his calling on the ground – so he gave up on the galaxies. And now, after a quarter century as a personable down-to-earth producer and executive at Constantin Film, Berben is about to take the controls of one of Germany’s biggest and most powerful production-distribution companies as its chief executive.

“I never would have thought that I’d have the chance to work for this company let alone get into a position to lead it,” Berben says. “It still feels a little surreal.”

The lesson he learned...

To celebrate the release of London Kills Series 4 available on 27th November on DVD and Digital, we’re giving away 2 DVDs!

Following the success of the first three series, crime TV virtuoso Paul Marquess (The Bill, Crime Stories, Suspects) brings us the latest instalment of the hit show that has become a firm fan favourite. London Kills Series 4 will be available along with London Kills Series 1 – 4 Complete Box Set on 27 November 2023.

London’s crack team of detectives – Di David Bradford (Hugo Speer – Marcella), DS Vivienne Cole (Sharon Small – The Inspector Lynley Mysteries), DC Rob Brady (Bailey Patrick – Bodyguard) and DC Billie Fitzgerald (Tori Allen-Martin – Unforgotten) – return to our screens to tackle the capital’s multitude of monstrous murders. Set against the backdrop of one of the most electrifying cities in the world, this slick and gritty show sees the savvy team face some of their toughest cases yet.

David has consistently displayed a rebellious nature,...

Exclusive: Nancy Grace is set to front In the Valley of Sin, a true-crime docuseries for Fox Nation that looks at a wild story from small-town Washington a quarter-century ago, Deadline has learned. The first part will bow Sunday, May 9, and the remaining five episodes will premiere daily through May 14. Watch the trailer above.

Fox confirmed the new project, which will explore the harrowing claims of child abuse in the sleepy town of Wenatchee, Wa. In 1995, the wholesome “Apple Capital of the World” was rocked by appalling allegations that adults in the town were running a child sex trafficking ring dubbed “The Circle,” which abused more than 60 children at various locations around the town. After dozens of arrests, more than 29,000 counts of child abuse and 1,000 combined hours of prison sentences, the truth emerged: None of it ever happened.

Each episode of In the Valley of Sin will tell the story...

Nancy Grace will host a new series for Fox Nation called America’s Most Wanted Overtime, tied to the Fox network airing of America’s Most Wanted, and she also has signed a new multiyear deal in which she will continue Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

America’s Most Wanted Overtime will debut at 10 Pm Et on March 15, and will run after the season premiere of America’s Most Wanted, which is hosted by Elizabeth Vargas. Overtime will take a deeper dive into the cases the cases on the show, with chief investigators, law enforcement experts and victims’ family members.

Grace’s new series will be released under the streaming service’s Fox Justice banner.

Grace also appears as a regular guest on Fox News Channel, and recently presented a Fox Nation tribute special to Larry King, her mentor and former colleague. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace is a daily SiriusXM radio...

A pair of experts believe that the will of Carole Baskin’s missing husband — which left the Tiger King subject with an estimated $10 million estate — was likely forged.

Don Lewis, the former husband of Big Cat Rescue founder Baskin, vanished in 1997; the Netflix series revived rumors pushed by Joe Exotic that Baskin killed Lewis and then fed him to her tigers. Baskin has denied any involvement in the disappearance of Lewis, who was declared legally dead in 2002.

Following the pop culture-seizing popularity of Tiger King, Lewis’ disappearance has been reexamined...

Florida law enforcement have confirmed that the will of Don Lewis, “Tiger King” star Carole Baskin’s missing late husband, was forged.

Hillsborough County, Florida, sheriff Chad Chronister said the forgery was confirmed by two experts to have been faked in an interview with 10 Tampa Bay News. The confirmation comes after Lewis’ attorney, John Fritz, told Nancy Grace in an interview on Fox Nation’s “Crime Stories” in late May that he believes the signature “was traced.”

The forgery is something Chronister says he has also long believed to be the case.

Also Read: 'Tiger King': Judge Grants Carole Baskin Control of Joe Exotic's Former Oklahoma Zoo

“I had already told them that two months ago,” Chronister said in a video interview, which you can watch above. “They had two experts declare it a forgery. We knew that before, because the girl who came forward and said,...

Nancy Grace is teaming up with Fox News subscription streaming service, Fox Nation.

The longtime legal analyst and former Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor is set to bring her Sirius Xm show, Crime Stories to the platform.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace will debut in January and stream five days a week on Fox Nation.

“I’m so thrilled Crime Stories will now be featured on Fox Nation!” Grace said in a statement on her website, CrimeOnline. “Helping to solve unsolved homicides and heating up cold cases will now extend to viewers at Fox Nation. I’m proud our new partner believes in our mission to always, in every way, seek justice.”

Over the years, Grace has hosted a string of legal shows, including Trial Heat and Closing Arguments on Court TV. In 2005, she began hosting a legal analysis program Nancy Grace on CNN Headline News (now Hln). The series ran...

Ed. Note: On Nov. 28, Joe Holcombe and his wife, Claryce, who lost eight family members in the church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, as well as the unborn child of one of them, filed a lawsuit against the United States government, claiming negligence.

The suit states that the Air Force failed to enter shooter Devan Patrick Kelley’s name in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s database after he pleaded guilty to domestic assault five years ago. According to the suit, had the Air Force entered Kelley’s name into the database, he would not have been able to obtain firearms.

A former Dairy Queen manager in Missouri accused of driving a teenage employee to suicide with her bullying now faces additional charges in the boy’s death, People confirms.

Harley Branham, 22, of Fayette, Missouri, was arrested on Jan. 31 after a jury in a coroner’s inquest found her to be “the principal” cause of 17-year-old Kenneth “Kenny” Suttner’s suicide.

The jurors concluded Suttner had faced bullying and harassment both at the Fayette Dairy Queen, while Branham was a manager there, and at his school.

Branham allegedly forced Suttner to hand-clean the floor of the restaurant, called him an “a...

A Philadelphia woman is behind bars after allegedly stabbing her 80-year-old grandfather 41 times and leaving him to die in the home they shared, multiple outlets report.

On Nov. 15, Patricia Diocson initially told police she had come home to find her grandfather, Robert Girard, lying in a pool of his own blood dead and naked on the kitchen floor, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

There was a trail of blood from the man’s second-floor bedroom to the kitchen, police said at the time. Neighborhood surveillance footage acquired by police allegedly showed Diocson being the last person to enter the home before her grandfather’s death,...

A Colorado teen accused of fatally stabbing a 19-year-old girl allegedly kept a “death list” in his room that included the victim’s younger sister, People confirms.

The 15-year-old boy, who is not being charged as an adult, is behind bars on suspicion of first-degree murder in the death of Makayla Grote last week. (People does not identify juveniles accused of crimes.)

On Saturday, Grote was found in the stairwell of her Longmont, Colorado, apartment complex suffering from stab wounds, according to an official with the Boulder County, Colorado, district attorney.

Grote was taken to a local hospital where she died.

History usually remembers Gary Hinman as the first official “Manson family” victim — killed in July 1969 by a few of Charles Manson’s cult followers at his behest. But Hinman’s life was far more important to his relatives than his death.

“It is too bad he is known as a victim of Charles Manson, but that is not how the family remembers him,” cousin Charlotte Hood tells People after the news that Manson died Sunday, at age 83.

“I saw something on the Internet that he was very, very ill, and it is about time,” Hood says.

Speaking of Hinman, who was 34 when he was killed,...

Ashleigh Wade, the New York woman who fatally stabbed her friend before cutting the victim’s baby out of her womb, will spend 40 years to life in prison on second degree murder and kidnapping convictions.

The 24-year-old woman, who was found guilty last month, wept in court on Wednesday before she was sentenced.

“I’m so, so sorry,” she said through her tears. “No words can say how sorry I am. I’m sorry for hurting so many people. I wish I knew why.”

During the trial, Assistant District Attorney Meredith Holtzman told the jury that Wade faked a pregnancy...

Lyle Menendez was sobbing hysterically as he spoke with 911 on Aug. 20, 1989, in a call to report the deaths of his parents, José and Kitty, who had been killed by shotgun fire.

“They shot and killed my parents!” he cried to the dispatcher.

But speaking out this year, more than two decades after he and his brother, Erik, were convicted as their parents’ murderers, Lyle says he wasn’t “grief-stricken” on that call at all.

“I think I was just absolutely broken down with stress,” he tells NBC News’ Keith Morrison in an exclusive clip from Friday’s Dateline, which re-examines the Menendez brothers case.

The husband of a second-grade teacher who was brutally stabbed and strangled in her Massachusetts home in September pleaded not guilty to her murder on Tuesday as her family reportedly rebuked him in court.

“Don’t even look at us!” a male relative yelled at the end of the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Superior Court arraignment for 29-year-old Andrew MacCormack, according to the Boston Globe.

MacCormack, of Revere, Massachusetts, is charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 23 death of his wife, Vanessa MacCormack.

Called “the world’s best mother” by her sister, Vanessa, 30, was found dead with deep cuts to her...

A 62-year-old Pennsylvania man is facing possible life behind bars after being accused of killing his wife more than 30 years ago, in what prosecutors described as an apparently faked suicide, People confirms.

Carl Rodgers of Shermans Dale was arrested Monday morning and has been charged with the 1983 murder of spouse Debra Jane Rodgers, who is the mother of his child.

“For more than three decades, the family and friends of Debra Jane Rodgers have sought justice, and wondered if this day would ever come,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro said during a Tuesday news conference.

“Thanks to a strong collaboration between...

A private company that manages prisons will pay $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed last year by the family of a mentally ill Pennsylvania woman who killed herself while detained inside one of their facilities, People confirms.

David Inscho, the attorney for the family of Janene Wallace, tells People the 35-year-old woman who was diagnosed as depressive and paranoid hung herself in May 2015 inside the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

According to Inscho, the suicide ended Wallace’s 50-day in solitary confinement. She was not let out of her cell once during the final 85 hours of her life,...

On Sunday — for the first time since a gunman walked into the First Baptist Church and killed 25 people and an unborn child last weekend —the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church will hold a service, according to the Associated Press.

The AP reported that the service would be held at an outdoor baseball park where the surviving members of the church would be joined by hundreds of others.

The First Baptist Church also announced in a press release that the church would open a memorial in the church sanctuary on Sunday afternoon. The memorial will subsequently be open to the public from 10 a.

Authorities in Florida have arrested a couple on child neglect charges, alleging they failed to get dental treatment for their daughter, who had 17 rotten teeth in her mouth, People confirms.

The arrests of Jeremie Maloy, 31, and 32-year-old Cynthia Maloy come after school officials in Southport, Florida, asked them for more than a year to take their child to a dentist, according to a criminal complaint obtained by People.

The Bay County Sheriff’s Department has not released the child’s age.

The complaint alleges the Maloys’ daughter had complained to teachers about tooth pain. She also “had to” eat soft foods,...

A Pennsylvania teen’s disappearance in New York City is being investigated as a case of possible sex trafficking, police tell People.

Corinna Slusser, 19, was last seen leaving the Haven Motel in Queens on Sept. 20, according to an N.Y.C. police spokesman. About a week earlier, her family reported her missing when she didn’t attend her grandfather’s funeral in Florida, the New York Daily News reports.

According to the Daily News, Slusser disappeared weeks after she sought an order of protection in Manhattan against a 32-year-old man who had assaulted her in August.

Slusser, an avid social media user,...

Jelani Maraj, the 38-year-old brother of rapper Nicki Minaj, was found guilty Thursday of predatory sexual assault on a child younger than 13 years old, People confirms.

Maraj, who long denied the allegations, was tried in Nassau County, New York. Jurors convicted him of endangering the welfare of a child and predatory sexual assault on a child younger than 13, Nassau County District Attorney Spokesman Brendan Brosh tells People.

Maraj was first arrested in connection with the case in early December 2015. He faces 25 years to life behind bars when he is sentenced next month.

The trial lasted over a month, and saw...

Authorities in Florida have filed charges against a couple for allegedly shooting themselves during what investigators suspect was actually a fake home invasion staged last month as part of a scheme to get money from their property manager, People confirms.

Doug Teixeira, 35, and his 36-year-old wife, Lindsey Pelton, were each charged with providing false information to law enforcement, according to a statement from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. Teixeira is additionally charged with evidence tampering.

The couple was taken into custody on Tuesday, but neither has appeared in court to enter a plea. They have not retained legal counsel...

Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have arrested a 36-year-old man on multiple felony counts, accusing the former middle school math teacher of allegedly having sex with at least one underage girl, People confirms.

Nicholas Conlon Smith, who lives in Raleigh and worked for 12 years at the Montessori School of Raleigh, was detained Tuesday and is being held on $1 million bond.

Smith was charged with 16 counts of statutory rape and two for sex offense involving a student, according to warrants obtained by People.

He has yet to enter a plea, and it was unclear if he has an attorney who could comment on his behalf.

A former airman was sentenced on Monday in Colorado to life in prison for the murder of his 4-year-old son, whom he had only recently met, People confirms.

Jeremy Deonte Ralph, 26, was found guilty in August in Colorado’s Fourth Judicial District Court of first-degree murder by one in a position of trust in the 2016 death of Montana Glynn. Ralph was also convicted of second-degree murder after deliberation, child abuse and recklessly causing death.

The jury reportedly determined that though Ralph didn’t intend to kill his son, his actions were knowingly and “practically certain” to lead to death.

Ralph’s defense attorney,...

Everyone agrees on this much in the homicide of pharmaceutical executive Michael McNew:

The 64-year-old businessman was found dead in his home in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 8, with a gunshot to his face. His body was in a chair and an autopsy showed that he’d been killed 24 to 48 hours earlier. Before he died, he exchanged aggressive text messages and argued with 33-year-old Jennifer Lynn Morrissey, an exotic dancer and motorcycle mechanic and the woman now charged with his slaying.

But why they fought and how McNew was killed remain the subject of debate, as does the true history...

Authorities on Wednesday confirmed that Peggy Lynn Warden, a grandmother, sister, mother and devout Texan woman, was among those killed in Sunday’s church massacre.

“She was a woman of faith, not just in her church but in the way she lived her life every day,” her sister Leisa Kugler tells People. “She was absolutely the most selfless person I’ve ever know.”

Warden, who grew up just five miles from First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was fatally shot when a 26-year-old gunman opened fire in the rural church on Sunday morning, killing 25 people and an unborn baby and injuring 20 more.

His tiny body washed up on a quiet stretch of a Texas beach nearly three weeks ago, yet no one has come forward to claim him as their own.

So for now, the boy whom authorities believe is between 3 and 5 years old, with the big brown eyes and dark hair, is simply known as “Little Jacob.”

Since Oct. 23, investigators have been working to no avail to identify the child, whose naked body was found by a passerby on an early evening stroll on the beach in Galveston, Texas, authorities said at a news conference on Monday.

After police released a...

Five years ago, the gunman responsible for Sunday’s mass shooting was sent to an inpatient mental health facility in New Mexico but escaped and fled to Texas, according to multiple reports.

On June 13, 2012, Devin Kelley, 26, reportedly fled the Peak Behavioral Health Services Center in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

A missing person report claimed the shooter, who was in the Air Force, was ordered to submit to mental health treatment after admitting he beat his first wife and stepson, according to Khou. One attack on the child left him with a skull fracture.

According to the shooter’s 2012 court-martial plea bargain,...

Crystal Holcombe, a devoted mother who was reportedly eight months pregnant with her sixth child, had high hopes for her family’s future when she went to church on Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

Widowed and left with five children in 2011, Crystal, 36, had met John Holcombe at the church, where he taught Sunday school and managed the audio system. They married in 2012.

United in their faith and love of family, they forged a happy new life together. It was about to become even richer because they were expecting their first child together next month.

All that ended on Sunday,...

Minutes before she was found on the side of the road early on Thanksgiving morning last year, California mom-of-two Sherri Papini was seen running to a church and then back toward the interstate, according to newly released surveillance video.

The black-and-white footage — sent to reporters on Tuesday by Shasta County, California, investigators — shows Papini near a Jehovah’s Witness church in Woodland, California, about 4:15 a.m. on Nov. 24, 2016.

According to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, Papini was seen on a surveillance camera running toward the church before she turned around and ran south toward Interstate 5, where she was...

Soon after Kathleen Curnow called 911 on Sunday morning to report the sound of gunfire at the church across from her house in Sutherland Springs, Texas, her husband crossed the street to investigate amid the gathering first responders.

“I kept waiting for people to come out but no one was coming out. My husband went to the doors of the church. He’s a strong man, but he said, ‘What I saw I was not prepared for,’ ” she tells People.

And then from inside the First Baptist Church — the site of what would become the deadliest mass shooting in modern Texas history — came an 8-year-old girl,...

Rosanne Solis is recounting the harrowing moments she and a group of worshipers cowered in silence on Sunday as 26-year-old Devin Kelley opened fire on the rural Texas church.

Solis told ABC News that the churchgoers began screaming when Kelley began unloading a hail of gunfire, but fell silent as the gunman made his way through the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs while reloading his gun.

“I played dead and I made sure that I hid myself good under bench,” she told the site. “You could hear a pin drop in there, silence. Real quiet … I knew if I...

Authorities are trying to determine how 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley, despite being convicted of domestic assault in a military court, was able to obtain multiple guns before he opened fire on a rural Texas church on Sunday morning, a federal official tells People.

“A lot of questions remain unanswered,” says the official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation into the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that killed 26.

The official is not authorized to communicate with the press and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

High on investigators’ agenda, the official says, is to confirm how Kelley could buy...

Authorities believe it was “a domestic situation” — and not terrorism — that fueled Sunday’s mass shooting inside a small church in rural Texas, killing at least 26 people, including an 18-month-old child.

During a Monday press conference, an FBI official confirmed that the shooter, 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley, had “expressed anger towards his mother-in-law,” who was a member of the congregation at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, the site of Sunday’s attack.

The shooter, officials said, had sent his mother-in-law several threatening text messages, but no report was ever filed with police.

Kelley is a former Air Force...

The town of Sutherland Springs, Texas, has only a few hundred residents — the kind of place so small that Sunday morning’s mass shooting at a local church didn’t just shock, it shattered.

“It kind of makes your heart drop,” resident Sarah Fuertez tells People. “You are taken aback. … You don’t think it would happen out here, that it would hit so close to home. I see something like this in a bigger city — it makes you wonder what is really safe. If we aren’t safe out here, where are we safe?”

According to historical records, there...

The shooter who opened fire on a Sunday morning worship service in a Texas church, killing at least 26 people and injuring at least 20 more, has been identified as 26-year-old Devin Kelley, according to multiple news reports.

Kelley’s name was confirmed by unidentified officials speaking to the Associated Press, CNN and the Washington Post. (People’s requests for comment from Texas law enforcement were not immediately returned.)

An Air Force spokeswoman tells People that Kelley served at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, working in logistics readiness. He was stationed there from 2010 until he was discharged in 2014, following a...

An American woman has been jailed in Zimbabwe over allegedly posting a mean tweet about Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, according to multiple reports.

The Washington Post reported that on Friday, 25-year-old New York University graduate Martha O’Donovan — who had lived in Zimbabwe since 2016 and worked at a local satirical comedy station — has been charged with subversion and attempting to overthrow the Mugabe government.

According to court documents released by the group Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, CNN reported that Zimbabwe authorities traced a tweet which said “we are being led by a selfish & sick man” and suggested Mugabe wore...

A 36-year-old man is behind bars in Alabama, accused of kidnapping a woman who can be seen in surveillance footage released by investigators escaping the trunk of her alleged captor’s car, People confirms.

The Chilton County Sheriff’s Office arrested Timothy Jabbar Wyatt early Wednesday following a traffic stop. He was initially charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, according to a statement from police.

Since then, prosecutors have filed robbery, kidnapping and domestic violence charges against Wyatt. He has not entered a plea to any of the charges.

Police allege that Wyatt entered a woman’s hotel room on Monday,...

A 47-year-old Michigan man faces life in prison after a jury found him guilty this week of murdering a mother as she jogged along a country road in 2014, People confirms.

Jeffrey Willis wept Thursday before learning he had been convicted of the first-degree murder of Rebekah Bletsch, a court official tells People.

Bletsch, 36, was shot in the head as she jogged along a rural road in Muskegon County the evening of June 29, 2014.

For nearly two years, her killer would walk free. But in May of 2016, Willis was arrested on kidnapping charges after a teenager allegedly escaped from his moving van...

Two Wisconsin men are accused of robbing and killing a 76-year-old man late last month and then giving each other a high-five afterwards, according to multiple news outlets.

The criminal complaint against them shows Calvin Fleener and James Johansen are charged with killing Kenneth Latus on Oct. 21 after they allegedly forced themselves into his home in Greendale, Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and local TV stations Wdjt and Witi report.

According to the court documents, Fleener, 42, first crossed paths with Latus a day earlier, on Oct. 20, when he accompanied a woman to Latus’ home to retrieve a package that had apparently been mistakenly delivered there.

A Michigan mother whose teenage daughter was murdered by her half-brother last year spoke out against her killer at his sentencing this week, telling him she hopes he leaves prison “in a body bag,” according to multiple news reports.

In court on Monday, 17-year-old Savon Schmus was sentenced to 40 to 100 years in prison for the murder of his half-sister, 18-year-old McKenna Hilton, on Aug. 18, 2016, the Associated Press reports.

Schmus pleaded guilty last month to first-degree murder, according to local TV station Wood.

In exchange, prosecutors did not seek a sentence of life in prison without parole, citing a 2012 Supreme Court...