Katherine Schaffstall

A Wisconsin man has been arrested for allegedly fatally beating a female security guard on Christmas day inside a Minnesota hospital where he was a patient. Jonathan Chet Winch has been charged with second-degree murder following the deadly incident. Winch, 35, was leaving the emergency department of M Health Fairview Lakes Hospital in Wyoming, Minnesota, […]

A former substitute teacher has been arrested in Texas along with her boyfriend after they were accused of child sex offenses. Madison Jones was arrested after Midlothian Police Department patrol officers were “dispatched to investigate a report of a potential sexual assault involving a child” on December 17, according to a press release from the […]

A woman in North Carolina has been accused of exposing her 1-year-old daughter to illicit street drugs, which led the baby to overdose and die. Brionce Parks has been charged with child abuse and exposing a child to a controlled substance, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department confirmed in a statement. The investigation into the baby’s death […]

A woman in Tennessee has been charged with attempted first-degree murder after police accused her of intentionally striking her ex-boyfriend with her SUV and running him over multiple times as he tried to escape her. The incident took place around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, December 27, on Gilleas Road in Memphis, Tennessee. Authorities claimed that […]

After Kentucky State University student De’Jon Fox Jr. was fatally shot by his classmate’s father, the victim’s parents are now facing criminal charges after they allegedly intimidated their son’s shooter. De’Jon Fox, Sr., and Chardnae Cleveland were both charged with intimidation, according to Indiana online court records. WTHR reported that the duo are the parents […]

A fifth-grade math teacher in Louisville, Kentucky, was arrested after she was accused of having “sexual conversations” with one of her students during remote learning. Sydnee Graf was taken into custody and charged with procuring or promoting use of a minor by electronic means, according to a Louisville Metro police arrest citation viewed by People. […]

A woman in Oklahoma was fatally shot while sitting on her front porch with her family on Christmas as her neighbor was testing out his new gun. The Stephens County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a statement on Thursday, December 25, that Cody Wayne Adams has been charged with first-degree manslaughter for his alleged involvement in […]

Teenager Jarrod Noll was taken into custody in West Virginia on Saturday, December 27, after he allegedly shot his parents on the day after Christmas in their family’s Pennsylvania home, killing his mother and injuring his father. Noll, 18, has been charged with homicide and attempted homicide in connection with the Boxing Day shooting. It […]

Texas woman Courtney Renee Hooper was arrested after she was accused by police of killing her boyfriend on Christmas Eve following an alleged fight. Authorities confirmed in a press briefing on Thursday, December 25, that they responded to a report of a shooting at a residence in Bexar County, Texas, on Wednesday, December 24. Once […]

A brave 11-year-old girl in Washington state found herself in a scary situation when a man allegedly tried to kidnap her — though she managed to escape by kicking him in the groin and running to safety. The young girl was playing soccer with friends on Monday, December 15, in Vancouver, Washington, when the incident […]

Three men who escaped a jail in Georgia were arrested Monday, December 22, in Florida after they were accused of putting a rope around a Lyft driver’s neck and kidnapping her for ten hours. Stevenson Charles, Yusuf Minor and Naod Yohannes escaped DeKalb County Jail on Sunday, December 21, according to a news release from […]

Police in Burlington, Vermont, are on the search for a mother who they believe was high on drugs when her 3-month-old daughter fatally drowned in a bathtub. Briana Arnold, 34, has been accused of involuntary manslaughter, cruelty to a child with death resulting and possession of narcotics, according to warrants issued for her arrest. Chittenden […]

A babysitter in Indiana was arrested after she allegedly hit a 7-month-old boy in the face, which severely injured him and caused him to experience brain bleeding. The Fort Wayne Police Department confirmed that Emily Duran was accused of neglect of a dependent, which resulted in serious bodily injury and battery to a child under […]

UPDATE: 12/24/25 1:22 p.m. ET. Authorities have revealed the cause of death for 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, who went missing in October, as gunshot wounds to the head. It has not been revealed how many times Melodee was shot, People reported on Wednesday, December 24. Melodee’s body was discovered on December 6, outside of Caineville, Utah, […]

Arkansas couple Darien Urban and Shalene Ehlers learned their different fates this week when they were sentenced after trying to sell their baby for a “six-pack of beer” to a man at a campground. Urban, 22, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted accepting compensation for adoption during a hearing on Monday, December 22, according […]

A manhunt was launched in Providence, Rhode Island, for the person who opened fire Saturday, December 13, on the campus of Ivy League institution Brown University, killing two students and wounding another nine. While a Wisconsin student was initially detained by cops as a “person of interest” in the shooting, that person was released, and […]

A family experienced an unfathomable tragedy this week when a domestic dispute over a football game turned deadly just three days before Christmas — leaving a mother dead and a 13-year-old girl critically injured. On Tuesday, December 23, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd held a press conference about a murder-suicide attempt that took place on […]

A man in Florida has been arrested after he allegedly opened fire on a car full of teenagers during a scary road rage incident. The Clay County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Ruben Rodriguez Heredia was involved in a road rage incident on Wednesday, December 17, that began at the intersection of […]

A Florida woman was arrested after she allegedly “forcibly dunked” someone else’s 6-year-old son underwater while staying at a resort during a family vacation. Tiffany Griffith was charged with aggravated child abuse and taken into custody at the Osceola County Jail following the alleged incident, which took place on Friday, December 19. The Osceola County […]

Former California-based equestrian Tatyana Remley died by suicide shortly after she was released from prison, where she was serving time for hiring a hitman to kill her husband, according to reports Remley died at the age of 44 on Thursday, December 18, the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to People. The medical examiner […]

Eleven days after Sydney Marquez was last seen, police have confirmed that they’ve reviewed surveillance footage showing her on the day she disappeared. However, they claim that the footage offered little information that could help them track her down. Marquez, 24, was last seen on December 11 near a shopping center in the 9100 block […]