WALLACE, NC (WECT) – Johnny Bench is used to being called a hero. But it’s not every day that the Baseball Hall of Famer gets to call other people heroes. Bench returned to Wallace August 24-26 to co-host the 15th Annual Hope for the Warriors Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament, an event that brings together veterans, […]
A Grand Junction man convicted of murdering his wife in 2019 will spend the rest of his life in prison, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. After 39 years of marriage, 66-year-old Mark Anthony Foster shot his wife, Roxine, with a .22-caliber bullet from a Colt M4 rifle while he followed her in an […]
Crystal Mason speaks to reporters outside Tarrant County Criminal Court in downtown Fort Worth on March 29, 2024. The day before, a Tarrant County appeals court overturned her conviction for illegal voting. (Miranda Suarez | KERA) The state’s highest criminal court has agreed to review the acquittal of Crystal Mason, who was accused of illegal […]
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 […]
LOS ANGELES, California — A former San Luis Obispo County deputy sheriff has been sentenced to seven months in a federal prison for mistreating an inmate in the county jail, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Joshua Fischer, 42, of Grover Beach, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge André Birotte Jr. […]
Lucio Vasquez/Houston Public Media The Harris County Jail in downtown Houston. Picture taken on December 8, 2022. Another man died this week after a “medical emergency” at the Harris County Jail, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. This is the sixth reported in-custody death this year. Hugo Mota, 41, was admitted to the prison […]
Lucio Vasquez/Houston Public Media Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announces the results of an investigation into the 2022 midterm elections in Harris County. Recorded August 13, 2024. An investigation into alleged misconduct related to the 2022 general election in Harris County has found no criminal activity related to the campaign, Harris County District Attorney […]
VENTURA, California — Investigators with the Ventura County Cold Case Unit have arrested Warren Luther Alexander of Diamondhead, Mississippi, on triple murder charges stemming from a series of strangulation murders that occurred in 1977. The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office has filed three counts of first-degree murder against Alexander, who was transported to California from […]
ST. LOUIS COUNTY – Authorities on Saturday charged an East St. Louis man with attacking a police officer who was “fighting for his life” following a protest marking the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death. Elijah Gantt, 28, was charged with two counts of fourth-degree assault, first-degree assault and criminal damage to property. He was […]
ST. LOUIS COUNTY – Authorities on Saturday charged an East St. Louis man with attacking a police officer who was “fighting for his life” following a protest marking the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death. Elijah Gantt, 28, was charged with two counts of fourth-degree assault, first-degree assault and criminal damage to property. He was […]
