ST. LOUIS COUNTY (First Alert 4) – A St. Louis County judge held an evidentiary hearing in the Marcellus Williams case Wednesday, a week after the judge in the case initially agreed to grant an Alford plea from Williams. Last week, prosecutors and Williams agreed to an Alford plea in the premeditated murder of 42-year-old […]
CLAYTON, Missouri (First Alert 4) – A hearing on Marcellus Williams’ motion to vacate his conviction is scheduled for Wednesday at the St. Louis County Courthouse in Clayton. St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell filed a motion to vacate the conviction in late January. Williams was sentenced to death in connection with the fatal stabbing […]
A Long Island man was sentenced to prison and banned from owning a pet forever after admitting to beating his aunt’s Chihuahua to death, prosecutors said Monday. Peter Minichello, 22, confessed to attacking the five-year-old dog named Pup-Pup on July 6, 2022, causing gruesome injuries that caused the small animal to die days later, according […]
A case that began in July 2023 with the search for kidnapped 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith and attracted national attention in Michigan ended Friday with a Lansing court sentencing 27-year-old Rashad Trice to life in prison for the murder and sexual abuse of her mother. On July 2, 2023, Trice sexually abused his ex-girlfriend, Cole-Smith’s mother, […]
Have you mastered life yet? I ask this because when I was younger I apparently had the wrong idea that as you get older you understand life and it becomes much easier. I now realize that the Master’s degree in life that I thought I would have earned by now doesn’t exist, and that life […]
By Jonathan Stamp NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer for R. Kelly struggled on Monday to convince a U.S. appeals court to overturn the former R&B superstar’s sex trafficking conviction and 30-year prison sentence. Kelly, 57, is appealing his conviction by a Brooklyn, New York, jury in September 2021 on all nine charges brought against […]
An Oklahoma youth baseball coach accused of repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl faces life in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts. Donovan Sheppard, 39, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree rape of a minor under 14, two counts of sexual battery, one count of rape by force, one count of exposing another person […]
