(This story has been updated to add new information.) FORT WORTH — A jury found Anthony Ryan Patterson guilty of five counts on Tuesday during his trial for allegations of child sexual abuse and child trafficking. Patterson was found guilty of trafficking, three counts of indecency with a child by exposure and sexual performance by…
It’s been almost 10 years since a white supremacist was welcomed into a South Carolina church and opened fire, killing nine people in a Bible study, including the Rev. Sharon Risher’s mother, two cousins and childhood friend. When the shooter, Dylann Roof, was sentenced to death in 2017, Risher believed he deserved to die. Over…
A Florida lawyer who represented two women in the House Ethics Committee investigation into former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz said the women alleged Gaetz paid them for sex, according to multiple media reports. One of the women also said she saw Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old, according to reports from the Washington Post and ABC…
A man accused of stabbing another person and pushing them into a river in Iowa City has pleaded guilty to a lesser offense. Yossarian Williams, 48, pleaded guilty to assault with intent to inflict serious injury, an aggravated misdemeanor on Nov. 1. He was initially charged with two felony counts, willful injury causing serious injury…
A driver struck and killed 35 people and injured dozens of others with a vehicle during a hit-and-run crash in southern China, local police confirmed Tuesday. In what Chinese authorities are calling an intentional act, the attack took place just before 8 p.m. local time Monday when the person drove” “a small SUV” into a…
Two people died in separate fatal shootings Saturday night within roughly three miles of one another, bringing out Stockton detectives for the 43rd and 44th investigations this year. The first shooting happened at about 6:33 p.m. near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Aurora Street, according to the Stockton Police Department. When officers arrived on the…
A criminal harassment charge against a former University of Iowa fraternity brother has been dismissed, ending a yearslong legal case surrounding an alleged 2020 sexual assault. Carson Steffen, 23, was charged with first-degree harassment, an aggravated misdemeanor, in 2021. The criminal complaint alleges he shared without permission on Snapchat photos of an individual “engaged in…
A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping and killing Memphis mother Eliza Fletcher during her morning jog in 2022. Cleotha Abston, 40, was able to avoid the death penalty with the guilty plea to first-degree murder and will face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Fletcher, who was 34 at the time…
Two ballot boxes were burned in Washington and Oregon on Monday, possibly damaging hundreds of mail-in votes with only about a week to go before Election Day. The Portland Police Bureau responded to reports of a fire in the Buckman neighborhood of the city at about 3:30 a.m. The fire had been extinguished by security…
DELPHI, Ind. ― For five years after Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German were found dead in the woods off the Monon High Bridge trail, Richard Allen was not on investigators’ radar. That changed on Sept. 21, 2022. Kathy Shank, a retired government employee who had started volunteering as a clerk to help with…