Author: Samantha Schmidt
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A Colorado Cub Scout pressed a lawmaker about gun control. Then his den kicked him out, his mother said.
When Ames Mayfield’s Cub Scout den met with a Colorado state senator last week, the 11-year-old came prepared with a long list of typed-up questions. He excitedly raised his hand to ask his first one. Ames pressed the Republican state senator, Vicki Marble, on an issue he knew was important to her: gun legislation. The…
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A veteran died as a nurse’s aide played video games instead of checking on him, report says
The day after Bill Nutter was found dead in his bed at the Bedford VA Medical Center in 2016, a staff member from the Massachusetts hospital told his wife that his heart had stopped and there was nothing more they could have done. But later, his wife, Carol Nutter, learned a bit more about what…
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He said it would be ‘awesome’ to help a friend kill herself. Now he’ll be tried for murder.
Weeks before her death, 16-year-old Jchandra Brown confided in her friend, Tyerell Przybycien, that she wanted to kill herself. When Przybycien, 18, asked another friend what he should do, the friend encouraged him to talk her out of it. But Przybycien, of Spanish Fork, Utah, admitted he wanted to help end her life. “It be…
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#MeToo: Harvey Weinstein case moves thousands to tell their own stories of abuse, break silence
Actor Alyssa Milano took to Twitter on Sunday with an idea, suggested by a friend, she said. She urged any women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted to write two words on Twitter: “Me too.” “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status, we might give…
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Hurricane Maria lashes Puerto Rico with force not seen in ‘modern history’
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Hurricane Maria roared ashore on Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the strongest storm to strike the island in more than 80 years while panicked residents fled to high ground and huddled in shelters hoping to withstand powerhouse winds that have already left death and devastation across the Caribbean. “On the…
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‘Leave the light on – for ICE’: Motel 6 employees reported guests to immigration officials
The Motel 6 budget lodging chain is commonly associated with its longtime slogan of welcoming hospitality: “We’ll leave the light on.” But for immigration attorneys in the Phoenix area, the motel chain has become the site of a troubling string of immigration arrests. And according to a report published Wednesday by the Phoenix New Times,…
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Homeless man asked woman to move Porsche so he could sleep. Then she shot him, police say
Around 3 a.m. one Saturday morning last month, Gerald Melton was trying to sleep — as he often did — on a sidewalk near Nashville’s Music Row, known as the heart of the city’s entertainment industry. But the 54-year-old homeless man was “disturbed” by the smell of exhaust fumes and the sound of loud music…
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Boy, 7, was tortured to death and left in a livestock pen. State agencies failed him, says lawsuit.
Adrian Jones’s short, tortured life was spent isolated from outsiders, confined in filthy, mice-infested houses where he was “home-schooled” by the parents who ultimately killed him, according to court documents. But the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father and stepmother were meticulously documented, through dozens of surveillance cameras. As his family moved…
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Authorities in Pennsylvania find body of missing man during search, say case is a homicide
Authorities said they have discovered human remains in a search for four missing men in Bucks County, Pa., and identified one of the bodies as a 19-year-old who disappeared on Friday. Investigators are now considering the case a homicide, District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said during a midnight news conference early Thursday. Weintraub had said this week…