Houston Police(HOUSTON) — Houston authorities are searching for a man linked to three sexual assaults and who’s believed to be on the run. Brandon Jay Carter, 28, is accused of three aggravated sexual assaults from June 2019 to January, police said. Carter is “very brutal to his victims,” Houston police […]
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A 60-year-old man has been accused of targeting students at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, and subjecting them “to sexual and psychological manipulation and physical abuse,” according to an indictment released Tuesday. Lawrence Ray was charged with sex trafficking, extortion, forced labor and […]
simpson33/iStock(ST. LOUIS) — A gay Missouri police officer who won a “historic” $20 million judgment in a sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit alleging he was told to “tone down your gayness” by a police commission board member has reached a settlement with St. Louis County for half the amount a jury […]
MattGush/iStock(CLINTON, Miss.) — A deadly house fire in Clinton, Mississippi, in which six children and their mother perished has been ruled an accident, but bars on the outside of a bedroom window and inoperable smoke detectors lessened their chances for escape, officials said. Brittney Presley and her six children — […]
sanjagrujic/iStock(DENVER) — After 30 years, pit bulls will soon be allowed to walk the streets of Denver. The Denver City Council on Monday voted to amend a code that banned pit bulls entirely from the Colorado capital. The amendment passed 7-4 and will take effect 90 days after Mayor Michael […]
OGDEN, Utah-Tuesday, Weber State men’s basketball star senior guard Jerrick Harding was named as the Big Sky Conference player of the week. In wins over Sacramento State and Northern Arizona last week, Harding averaged 34 points per game, shot 53 percent from the field and made all 15 of his […]
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(CAYCE, S.C.) — More than 250 officers are searching Tuesday morning for a 6-year-old South Carolina girl who has been missing since Monday. First-grader Faye Swetlik was last seen at about 3:45 p.m., after she got off the school bus and was playing in front of her home in Cayce, […]
Los Angeles Police Dept.(LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles police have released images of two young women they’re looking to find after they allegedly targeted two men, stole expensive watches and left one of them unconscious. The two women, both believed to be in their 20s, met the two men at […]
A group that promotes water quality in Utah has asked the state Legislature for $150,000 to educate residents against disposing non-flushable products in toilets amid clogged sewer lines. The Deseret News reported Monday that the “Toilets Are Not Trash Cans” educational campaign is aimed at teaching flushers not to dispose […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah could ease its law against polygamy under a new proposal at the state Legislature. Its sponsor says the 85-year-old law has failed to root out the practice and instead made people afraid of going to police when abuse happens. The state senator’s proposal to […]
