Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) -- Two months after Michelle Carter's 18-year-old then-boyfriend Conrad Roy died of carbon monoxide poisoning after locking himself in his truck, Carter texted a classmate that "his death was my fault.""I could’ve stopped him," Carter texted a classmate in September 2014. Carter texted that she and Roy were on the phone the day of his suicide in July when Roy "got out of the car," he was "scared."Carter texted […]

iStock/Thinkstock(GERMANTOWN, Md.) -- The father of a Maryland teenager gunned down the night before his high school graduation is begging for information to help catch the person who killed his son and a classmate, according to ABC affiliate WJLA-TV.Shadi Adi Najjar, 17, and Artem Ziberov, 18, were found shot dead Monday night in a parked car on a residential street in Montgomery Village, about 23 miles north of Washington, D.C., […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Police in Nashville, Tennessee, believe a 2-year-old accidentally shot dead his 7-year-old cousin on Tuesday afternoon.The victim, 7-year-old Harmony Warfield, was in an apartment Tuesday with four relatives: her 29-year-old aunt and children ages 14, 11 and 2, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a news release Tuesday evening."The children were in the kitchen area when a shot was heard," police said. "The 14-year-old reported that […]

Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The disgraced reporter accused of making bomb threats at Jewish Community Centers across the country is set to plead guilty to cyberstalking charges on June 12, according to a new court filing.Juan Thompson, a St. Louis native, who was fired from The Intercept, initially pleaded not guilty to accusations that he made at least eight of the phoned-in threats to JCCs and Jewish schools as part […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Reality Leigh Winner, a National Security Agency contractor with a top-secret clearance, became the first person to be jailed by the Trump administration after being accused of leaking classified information this week.Winner, 25, allegedly leaked a classified report about Russian election interference to the online publication The Intercept, the latest in a series of high-profile leaks blamed on government contractors who have access to sensitive national security […]