A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous girls and leading a cult must remain held without bail until his next court hearing, a judge ordered Thursday morning. Nathan Chasing Horse, 46, faces charges of sex trafficking, sexual assault against a child younger than 16, and child abuse. He …
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Louisiana’s longstanding practice of detaining incarcerated people past their scheduled release dates is unconstitutional, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. In a news release summarizing the findings of an investigation that uncovered a pattern of “systemic overdetention” in Louisiana prisons dating back at least a decade, the federal agency …
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A 21-year-old Texas man remained jailed Friday after authorities accused him of killing and decapitating his wife. Jared Dicus has been charged with murder in the death of 21-year-old Anggy Diaz. Dicus is being held on a $500,000 bond. Waller County Sheriff Troy Guidry said authorities found Diaz’s body Wednesday …
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A Utah man fatally shot his five children, his mother-in-law and his wife, then killed himself two weeks after the woman had filed for divorce, according to authorities and public records. Enoch Police Chief Jackson Ames said during a Thursday press conference that officers had been involved in investigations involving …
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Authorities investigating the disappearance of a North Carolina girl released video footage this week that appears to show her exiting a school bus on Nov. 21, marking the final time she was definitively seen before going missing. Madalina Cojocari, 11, is now the focus of a widespread search involving detectives …
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A South Florida woman claiming to be a psychic has been sentenced to federal prison along with her partner for orchestrating a “family curse, fortune telling and swindling a victim out of more than $3 million,” prosecutors announced Thursday. The fraud ran for several years and only ended after the …
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Five family members were found dead Wednesday inside their Phoenix home in what authorities were classifying as a homicide case. Police said the two adults and three children had “obvious signs of trauma” and that investigators were not searching for a suspect in the deaths. The names and ages of …
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Authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with seven fires set across Mississippi’s capital city early Tuesday. At least two of the buildings set ablaze in Jackson were churches; one was burned to the ground. Another fire broke out on fences surrounding the baseball practice field at Jackson State University, …
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Authorities on Wednesday seized 12,000 suspected fentanyl pills that had been stuffed inside candy boxes at Los Angeles International Airport, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said. At around 7:30 a.m. local time, a suspect tried to go through security with several bags of candy and “miscellaneous snacks,” the sheriff’s department …
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Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.” Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced the decision during a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Mosby told reporters that new DNA tests found a “DNA …
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