Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr
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For weeks he trained a dog to do a Nazi salute. He was just convicted of a hate crime.
Mark Meechan stared at the camera and described the training he had given to his girlfriend’s pug, Buddha. “My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is,” he said in his Scottish brogue. “And so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could…
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Fla. school district suspends teacher caught leading a double life as a white nationalist podcaster
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In her first year as a teacher, Dayanna Volitich taught under the watchful eye of more experienced educators. The school sought to make sure the novice teacher met standards set by the state of Florida.…
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Day-care workers accused of drugging children with melatonin gummy bears before naptime
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In advertisements, Kiddie Junction billed itself as more of an educational institute than a day-care center. It told parents that its teachers used the latest child development research to instill a lifelong love of learning…
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He had been outing suspected drug dealers on Facebook Live. Then a gunman entered the frame
Prentis Robinson rarely went a day without using Facebook Live — his favorite way of broadcasting his music, his personal vendettas and, authorities said, his suspicions about who in the town was dealing drugs. On Monday, he was live-streaming video on Facebook as usual, recording himself with a selfie stick, wearing one of the straw…
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Parents accused of torturing their 13 children face new charges
The 13 Turpin siblings gained their freedom last month after one of them escaped through a window and called 911, ending years of imprisonment under parents accused of starving and chaining them to their beds in a putrid home not far from Los Angeles. But investigators warned that gaining the trust of the socially stunted…
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A woman stabbed and left for dead named her killers in her last moments, police say
When the four delivery workers found the woman in the middle of the road, she was covered in so much blood that they couldn’t tell the color of her hair. Whoever had done this to her, authorities said later, had stabbed the 19-year-old repeatedly, then thrown her out of a car near a remote, hilly…
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Man accused of shooting Colorado teen said the victim sought a hit man on Craigslist, affidavit says
Joseph Lopez had a chilling answer when investigators asked why he had shot a 19-year-old woman in the head around Christmas and then left her body in a rural area near Denver: she asked him to. Lopez said that Natalie Bollinger had put an ad on Craigslist that said “I want to put a hit on…
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All she has to do to collect a $560 million lotto jackpot is make her name public. She refuses.
The winning numbers triple-checked and the lottery ticket signed, the New Hampshire woman knew her life was about to change in a very positive way — except for one petrifying thing. As the winner of last month’s $560 million Powerball, she would soon be the world’s newest owner of a nine-digit bank account. But because…
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Mayan civilization was much vaster than known, thousands of newly discovered structures reveal
Archaeologists have spent more than a century traipsing through the Guatemalan jungle, Indiana Jones-style, searching through dense vegetation to learn what they could about the Mayan civilization that was one of the dominant societies in Mesoamerica for centuries. But the latest discovery – one that archaeologists are calling a “game changer” – didn’t even require…
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The desperate attempt to save frostbitten climbers on one of the world’s highest peaks
With her frostbitten and snow-blind climbing partner safe in their only tent, Elisabeth Revol proceeded farther down the mountain to call for help on her satellite phone. But even if the Frenchwoman could make contact with someone, who would be able to help before the climbers succumbed to the harsh conditions in one of the…