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Two sentenced in Canton woman’s burning death
  ZANESVILLE, Ohio — A judge sentenced LaFonse Dixon Jr. to life in prison without parole today for his role in the burning death of Celeste Fronsman. Muskingum County Common Pleas Judge Kelly Cottrill followed the sentencing recommendation the jury made on Oct. 22. The same jury found Dixon guilty on Oct. 17 of aggravated murder, aggravated arson and kidnapping. Dixon, 34, of Canton, could have received the death penalty. Cottrill called the case “horrific.” “Ms. Fronsman died a horrific death at your hands,” Cottrill said. “Your self-absorbed, anything-goes lifestyle led directly to her death.” Prosecutors said that on August 26, 2012, Dixon and two women drove Fronsman from Canton to Muskingum County, where they beat her, choked her and set her on fire. The brutality was retaliation. Prosecutors said Dixon thought Fronsman had snitched on his drug dealing. She lived for two more days after a motorist found her on Rt. 208 near Zanesville, wailing in agony and burned over 70 percent of her body.
  Katrina Culberson, 22, and Monica Washington, 25, who also were crack-addicted prostitutes who participated in the attack, pleaded guilty to aggravated murder, aggravated arson and kidnapping, and testified against Dixon. - (Black-on-white) - (Burned Alive!) |
A 4-year-old has died following an assault Wednesday. Officers found 4-year-old Layla Malone unresponsive at a home around 5:45 p.m. Wednesday. Investigators said she was beaten to death. Relatives say Layla's face was swollen and bruised. Her great uncle says Layla was home with 28-year-old Michael McDaniel because the child had an eye infection and her mother could not take her to daycare. McDaniel is Layla's mother's boyfriend. "Burn in hell, and I'll see you there. Then you've got to deal with me," said Richard Miller. Miller is furious and heartbroken. He sobbed when doctors pronounced Layla dead a day after she was found. "The sweetest little thing, a light in the family, happy - the light is gone now. It is just gone. It will affect this family the rest of our lives," said Miller. Police arrested McDaniel Wednesday and took him to the Franklin County Jail on a charge of felonious assault. Additional charges will be considered after the autopsy is complete. Miller describes more bruises and hand prints on her body... and the scan of Layla's brain showed even more heart wrenching damage. "They could not differentiate the different lobes of her brain, it was just basically mush. He beat her so bad," added Miller. - (Black-on-white)
KANNAPOLIS, NC - A man charged in the April murder of his girlfriend's 10-year-old son pleaded guilty to murder in court Thursday. Eugene W. Mays, 39, pleaded guilty to first degree murder in Cabarrus County court, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Mays was arrested in April after investigators found 10-year-old
DALLAS — A Garland man convicted in the death of a store clerk set ablaze and left to die was sentenced to death Friday. A jury convicted Matthew Lee Johnson, 38, of capital murder on October 30. Surveillance video captured footage of Johnson walk into a Garland convenience store, pour lighter fluid over 
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - A judge has sentenced two Tennessee men convicted of murder in the killing of a Fort Campbell soldier who was giving them a ride home. Judge John H. Gasaway sentenced Giovanne Johnson and Rakeem Jones, who are both 19, to life plus 25 years in the slaying of 22-year-old Spc.
FRANKLIN, Tenn. - A young man was dragged across a parking lot after a Craigslist transaction to sell a Smartphone went "terribly wrong". The incident happened on Halloween when
MESA, AZ - Donations earmarked to help an employee's sick daughter were stolen from the counter at an AM/PM gas station in Mesa, but the thief was caught on camera. 
Two Boise residents face a long list felony charges after police say they forced at least a dozen local women into prostitution. Boise Police detectives arrested 44-year-old Derrick W. Hicklen and 28-year-old Gypsie Akers on felony warrants earlier this week. According to police, Hicklen and Akers coerced and persuaded more than a dozen local women into multiple incidents of prostitution, which included holding women in hotels where they were forced to perform sexual acts for money. Akers is accused of taking the money the victims earned. Hicklen is also accused of performing several sexual acts upon women without their consent, in some cases after drugging them so they could not object. Police say Hicklen photographed the crimes.
A convicted felon wanted in three rapes dating back to 1992 was allowed to walk free from prison in August despite three active warrants for his arrest. He is only behind bars now after a chance encounter with New Orleans police. Sherman Hampton, 59, was arrested Tuesday after an officer saw him riding a bicycle the wrong way down a Central City block. But he never should have been on the street, officials have confirmed.
A Bayonne man faces a slew of charges after police say he went on a four-day crime spree that included asking two pre-teen girls for a kiss while fondling himself. Dexter Bell, 24, has been charged with criminal sexual conduct, lewdness, shoplifting, obstruction of justice, aggravated assault, resisting arrest and theft. Bell stole a cellphone from a woman and posted nude photographs of the woman on Facebook. On Tuesday, Bell approached the children’s playground of the YMCA and asked for a kiss from two children, ages 11 and 12, and from two counselors working at the YMCA. While asking for the kiss, Bell had his hands down his pants and was fondling himself. On Wednesday, Bell asked to use a man’s iPhone, then ran away after grabbing the phone. On Thursday, Bell was arrested after he tried to steal a set of headphones and a phone charger from a Metro PCS store on Broadway. When stopped by a responding officer, Bell told the officer “F*** you” and fled the store.
KOSCIUSKO, Miss. —A Sallis man faces multiple charges after allegedly running a Kosciusko police roadblock on Saturday, striking a vehicle and killing two people. The Mississippi Highway Patrol said Nickholas Gerard Jackson, 31, drove through the driver's license checkpoint at the junction of Mississippi Highways 12 and 35-19 and collided with a car. Officials said 
Authorities have filed charges against two suspects accused of kidnapping a man with cancer from his hotel room in Bridgeton. Marcus Pratt-Pegues, 24, and Eunique Cooper, 21, were each charged Thursday with kidnapping and first-degree burglary. According to authorities, the suspects kidnapped 
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The 16-year-old charged with a hate crime for intentionally setting the clothing of another high school student on fire will be tried as an adult. The victim, 
The Ohio Supreme Court set a Jan. 21, 2016, execution date today for Kareem Jackson, convicted of two execution-style slayings in 1997. Jackson, 39, was sentenced to death for both the murders of 
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — University officials refuse to answer why they failed to notify students and staff at Johnson C. Smith University about two alleged rapes near campus just days apart. Last Friday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers arrested Frederick Sullivan, a construction worker, and charged him with multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, sex offense, communicating threats and assault. Investigators said the
Swatara Township Police have charged a man with rape after a badly beaten victim showed up at Hershey Medical Center. Officers were contacted by the hospital on November 6th in reference to an assault victim that was being treated at their facility. Responding officers spoke with the victim, who told police that the victim had been assaulted by Victor Stamps. Stamps was taken into custody on November 7th by Harrisburg Police Officers. Stamps has been charged with Rape, Involuntary Deviant Sexual Intercourse, Unlawful Restraint, False Imprisonment, Aggravated Assault, Sexual Assault, and Aggravated Indecent Assault. 
Cordell Zebedee Fields, 56, was charged in Tulsa County District Court with a single count of indecent exposure, according to court filings. Prosecutors allege on Oct. 24 that Fields "lewdly expose(d) his person and private parts in a public place where there were present other persons to be offended and annoyed," court documents said. Fields is also accused of shouting expletives to a judge prior to exposing himself, documents said. Fields was already in custody complaints of assault and battery on a detention officer, transfer of bodily fluids on a government official and threatening a violent act.
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - An Onslow County murder trial started Monday. Investigators say 22-year-old Nickey Yates strangled
The promise made to child murder victim
PHILADELPHIA — Seventeen years after 
District of Columbia police say they’ve made an arrest in a cold case slaying of woman who was found raped and killed on New Year’s Day 1984. Police arrested 55-year-old Joe Anthony Barber of Woodbridge on Tuesday, and charged him with first-degree felony murder in the stabbing death of 43-year-old 
CHICAGO – A ninth man has been charged with taking part in the videotaped sexual assaults of two teenage sisters and another 16-year-old in a moving van on the West Side. Michael McChriston, 20, was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bail Wednesday for the Oct. 19 attack. The rapes were videotaped on a cellphone camera, authorities said. McChriston, who is also known as Michael Washington, also was identified in a photo array by two of the victims, Assistant State’s Attorney Kingsley Sawyers said. McChriston lives in the 5700 block of West Race and was arrested in Maywood on Tuesday. Also charged in the incident are Fitzpatrick Durham, 18; Kelvin Pryor, 17; Sadarius Price, 17; Joshua Grayer, 18; Denzel Clay, 19; Ramel Stevens, 20; Maurice Johnson, 17, and Vanburen Robinson, 18.
SANDY SPRINGS, GA - Sandy Springs police are searching for a rape suspect. Authorities say Terry Marquis Hicks, 40, brutally assaulted a female victim after leaving the Taboo 2 bar on Nov. 4. According to police, Hicks caused the victim severe injuries, including a broken jaw. Police say Hicks has no established home but was last seen possibly driving a dark brown 1998 Honda Accord with Georgia tag PPB-6347. Anyone with information on Hicks is asked to call the police.
BALTIMORE — City police say a serial rapist is off the streets. Investigators linked the suspect to three separate attacks but say there may be more victims. The list of charges against Nelson Bernard Clifford, 33, is long. Baltimore detectives say he’s responsible for three different rape cases throughout the city. Police say the first rape happened in early November in the 3700-block of Greenmount Avenue. In that attack, police say Clifford climbed through a woman’s window at night and raped her at knifepoint while her two children were in the next room. It happened again a few days later, this time in the 700-block of Lennox Street. It happened a third time in the 900-block of Harlem Avenue last month. This time, police say he used an ice pick to threaten the victim.
Fayetteville police have identified two suspects in a robbery and rape that happened last weekend. Police are looking for Cortese Davis of Spring Lake and Paul Smith of Dunn. Two men walked into the Advance Auto Parts store on Owen Drive in Fayetteville last Saturday, robbed it then took the workers in the back. They held them at gunpoint while a female employee was raped. A similar crime happened in Lumberton Saturday at another auto parts store but no sexual assault occurred. Davis and Smith are considered armed and dangerous.
A Memphis man convicted of repeatedly raping and sexually abusing a young girl over a five-year period has been sentenced to 49 years in prison. Rickey Bell lived in the same house with the girl and began abusing her in 2007 when 
A 41-year-old Suffolk man has been arrested after allegedly engaging in sexual acts with a minor. Police say Vincent Nathanial Smith was seen engaging in sexual acts with a
A Tulsa man was sentenced to 17 years in a federal prison for the sex trafficking of children. Prosecutors said 24-year-old Tarran Brinson used social media to lure underage girls into the sex trade. He was convicted of conspiring to recruit, entice, transport, provide, and obtain girls under the age of 18 years knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that the girls would be caused to engage in commercial sex acts. One of the victims was just 14 years old.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Convinced he would be found not guilty, Kevin Dengel on Thursday asked for one more chance to plead his case to the jury that found he had inappropriately touched two eighth-grade girls. Instead the former Grand Rapids Schools paraprofessional was led away by court deputies to await sentencing on Dec. 2 on two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. The Kent County Circuit Court jury deliberated about two hours before returning its verdict on Thursday, Nov. 7. Over three days, the jury heard from the young victims who were 13 when they said Dengel touched their breast and buttock when they were students at Sherwood Park Global Studies Academy. One of the victims said Dengel walked up behind her on two occasions and touched her buttocks during school hours, once apologizing and telling the girl “My hand has a mind of its own.” The other girl said Dengel leaned his shoulder into her breast while walking down the crowded hallway on one occasion, and on another raised his hand to touch her breast.
A 25-year-old registered sex offender is behind bars accused of sex trafficking. Wichita Police found him Wednesday, saying he'd been staying in a hotel with a teenaged girl who they say ran away from Riley County in late September. Motel owner Paul Batka says the suspect, Chivas Taylor, had been staying there for at least four weeks, but he didn't know there was a 
An 18-year-old is in custody after police say he attempted to rape an underage girl in a high school bathroom stall. Toby Duncan is being held without bond on charges of sexual battery, lewd battery on a victim under 16, lewd molestation on a victim over 12 and false imprisonment. Duncan grabbed the victim as she was walking down a hallway at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach and forced her towards the boy's bathroom. When she resisted he picked her up and carried her into the bathroom against her will. Inside, he pushed her into a bathroom stall and attempted to pull her pants down while touching her inappropriately. The victim was afraid because Duncan had allegedly been violent with other students in the school, police said.
A veteran Chicago Police officer has been charged with molesting a minor girl years ago, and similarly attacking the victim’s 
A lieutenant with the Philadelphia Police has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend. On Wednesday, Nov. 6th, Philadelphia police lieutenant Marques Newsome, a 16-year veteran of the department, was arrested for an incident that occurred on Oct. 27th in the 1300 block of North 57th Street.
A Shreveport police officer has been placed on administrative leave following his arrest on a felony charge of issuing worthless checks. According to the Shreveport Police Department, 23-year-old Patrick Williams was arrested Tuesday as a fugitive on an outstanding warrant. Williams joined the Shreveport Police Department in July 2012. Chief of Police Willie Shaw placed Williams on leave "as required by the rules and regulations of the Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board which states: 'When an employee is charged with a felony he shall, and if a misdemeanor he may, be immediately relieved of duty and placed on "departmental leave' for up to one week at full pay and with continuing seniority." 
QUINCY, Mass. -- An employee at the Home Depot on Willard Street in Quincy is accused of stabbing a co-worker inside the store. Investigators allege a 36-year-old Jamal Boyd, of Mattapan, stabbed 37-year-old
Four Milwaukee teenagers are charged with robbery as a party to a crime for allegedly attacking a man on the city’s east side. All four teens are students at Bradley Tech High School — three are on the school’s basketball team. The accused are Dontarrion Brown, Justin Goodwin, Latrell Katherine and Martis Shanks. The suspects knocked the man to the ground and continued to punch and kick him — and told him to empty his pockets.
Former San Francisco 49ers lineman Kwame Harris was found guilty of misdemeanor domestic violence and battery. It all started when his boyfriend Dimitri Geier poured soy sauce on his rice.
BOSTON — New Hampshire's top court on Wednesday upheld a capital conviction for cop-killer Michael Addison, but said his death sentence was still under review. Addison became New Hampshire's only death row inmate in 2008 and would become the first prisoner in the state to be executed in more than 70 years if his sentence is upheld. Addison, 33, was convicted of shooting a Manchester bicycle policeman, 
The Providence police have warrants for two men accused of viciously beating a 78-year-old man during an armed home invasion Saturday. Joel Valdez, 25, and Wilbert Richardson, 39, are wanted for the brazen attack at 122-124 Ontario St., detective Sgt. William Dwyer Jr. said. Two men forced their way into the third-floor apartment, where they pistol-whipped the tenant and then attacked his landlord as he tried to intervene. 
A Kentucky National Guard member says a Nashville cabbie told him to get out of a taxi Sunday after asking if he was in the Army. 
Servers in Greenville’s bars and restaurants are like a community within a community, where everybody knows everybody, and after-hours parties and get-togethers are frequent, according to friends of 
DALLAS — After pleading guilty to murdering his wife, Ferdinand Glen Smith faced friends and family in a Dallas County courtroom. Armed with a gun, Mr. Smith waited for his estranged wife, 
Police in Mascotte have issued a murder warrant for a man who they said killed a 27-year-old mother in front of her 3-year-old. Johnny Lashawn Shipman, 36, is wanted for killing 
BURLINGTON, Iowa — A Burlington man proclaimed his innocence as he was sentenced to life in prison for the killing of his wife. 38-year-old Chico Newman blamed police and prosecutors before Judge John Linn imposed a mandatory life sentence for first-degree murder. Newman was convicted last month in the Aug. 9, 2012, shooting death of his wife, 32-year-old 
A deployed soldier chatting with his pregnant wife on FaceTime watched helplessly Wednesday as a fellow soldier repeatedly stabbed the woman, according to several media reports. Pvt. 
Police have issued an arrest warrant for the rapper boyfriend of Amish Mafia star 
OAKLAND — Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy (that attends a black high school) who investigators believe intentionally set a person on fire aboard an AC Transit bus Monday evening. The victim is an 18-year-old who was sleeping on the bus, police said. 
PINE BLUFF, Ark. - Pine Bluff police have a man in custody for rape. Police say Christopher D. Holder, 20, is charged for a rape that happened Wed. Oct. 30 at 9:30 a.m. at 1301 Commerce behind Belair Middle School at gunpoint. 
Five people intend to plead guilty in a scheme to kidnap a 6-year-old girl from an east Mississippi elementary school but not the accused plot leader and son. The kidnapping was a plot to pressure the child's mother in a land deal. Shamarius Ruffin intends to change her plea to guilty at a hearing scheduled Nov. 6 in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Miss. The woman who authorities say orchestrated the plan, Jesse Mae Brown Pollard, and her son, Devonta Pollard, a former basketball player at the University of Alabama, are among seven people charged in the case.
and witness tampering in the June death of her step-granddaughter, who was just shy of 3 years old.
An Asian-American couple held in Qatar on child abuse charges since January have been freed from jail as they prepare their defense against charges that could see them both executed in the Persian Gulf nation. As of Wednesday, 
SANDUSKY, OH - A man accused of raping a young Sandusky mother before killing her hand her two children has been found guilty. A jury convicted Curtis Clinton on rape and aggravated murder charges on Monday. Clinton, 41, was accused of raping and killing 23-year-old 
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 24-year-old Jacksonville man is charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend's 22-month-old daughter. Todd Howell claimed he dropped 
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. —The 36-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of beating a 
Joseph Walker, 40, an 18-year veteran assigned to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, fatally shot 
DAYTON — A teenager is being held in the slaying of a Michigan man in a shooting that happened inside a Leo Street apartment. Anthony Brown, 18, is in the Montgomery County Jail on multiple charges after his arrest Wednesday. Brown is the suspect in the Oct. 26 death of 42-year-old 
A suburban Philadelphia judge has allowed murder charges to proceed against four suspects accused of taking part in the slaying of a Chester drugstore manager. Four suspects in the shooting death of 40-year-old
OMAHA, Neb. — Terrance Hale, 30, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 
Attorneys for a soldier accused of kidnapping, raping and killing a Wilmington woman are asking a judge to transfer him from the maximum-security prison in Smyrna to a prison in Wilmington, where they say he will receive better mental health treatment. The judge previously ordered that 26-year-old Dwight Smith be transferred to the medium-security Wilmington prison, but Department of Correction officials objected, saying that Dwight Smith has a history of aggression and would present a safety and security risk at Howard Young prison. But attorneys for Smith say his current solitary confinement is taking a toll on him both mentally and physically. 
Jeffrey Eldon Miles Sr., 50, pleaded guilty to murder in general in Franklin County Court today in connection to an April 2010 killing. Miles was scheduled to go to trial next month for the stabbing death of 
One of two black men charged with murdering a couple at a Tulsa park was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole as part of a plea deal that allows him to avoid a possible death penalty. Jerard Davis, 23, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree "felony" murder linked to the Sept. 18, 2011, fatal shootings of 
A Vallejo man has been arrested and charged with murdering a man in Hayward in 2009 after taking exception to one of the victim's dogs sniffing at his leg. Dereak Turner, 24, shot and killed 
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Accused killer Avondre Graham pleaded guilty to Second-Degree Murder in court. Police arrested then 17-year-old Avondre Graham in September 2012, three months after the victim was stabbed in broad daylight while walking her dog along Tuffy's Trail Victim
