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(Black) Georgia boxer known as ‘Terrible Thomas’ charged with (white) wife’s murder
 South Georgia boxer Yathomas Riley has been charged with the murder of his wife, a local emergency room physician found shot in the head earlier this month inside the couple’s Leesburg home. Authorities told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Riley has suggested that his wife committed suicide — a similar defense to the one that, three years ago, led to his acquittal on attempted murder charges in Florida. “This is one of those cases where he’s essentially claiming that he has no knowledge of how she died,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Mike Walsingham said Tuesday. “And is pretty much indicating that she shot herself.” According to information previously released by the GBI, Riley called 911 shortly after 8:30 a.m. on July 10 to report that he had found his wife, 34-year-old Dr. Lisa Marie Riley, unresponsive inside their Northampton Road home. Emergency medical personnel pronounced her dead at the scene, and an autopsy later determined that she’d died of a gunshot wound to the head.
On Aug. 17, 2012, Yathomas Riley walked out of a different jail, the Miami-Dade Pre-Trial Detention Center, as a free man. He had been incarcerated for nearly two years on attempted murder charges, criminal accusations filed against him following the shooting of Koketia King, a woman described as his on-again, off-again girlfriend. King, a Florida City corrections officer, survived the ordeal and told authorities that Riley shot her three times during an argument. Riley contended that King shot herself.
Five weeks before Lisa Riley’s death, she told police her husband pointed a handgun at her head while accusing her of cheating. He was arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated assault and one of simple battery. “He apparently held a gun to her on three different occasions,” Lee County Sheriff Reggie Rachals said of the June 14 incident at the couple’s home. “During one of those times, he had his legs wrapped around her neck and upper chest area.” . - (Black-on-white) |
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A 61-year-old man is dead after a shooting Monday night, but his daughter says he wasn’t the intended target. Emmala Mahon says her father Charlie Mahon was everything to her family. “He was always there for everybody; he was the glue,” she recalls. The family says Charlie had no idea there was a man outside his home with a gun when he entered his back door on Springmont and South Highland Avenues. By the time he came to the front door, a shot was fired. Four more followed. Mahon fell near the door. Calls to 911 followed. Caller: My dad's been shot in the head. Dispatcher: Who shot him? Who shot him, ma'am? Caller: Some guy named Jallen. The family says some kind of argument between the friend of the shooter and someone in the house sparked the gunfire. Police say Jallen Hall fired the gun, and 21-year-old Alexa Curtis called him to carry out the attack. Both are wanted for murder. Police have not located either of them. Emmala says her father was generous man and an innocent bystander in the shooting. “Anything you asked him for, he would do it. He would give the shirt of his back if you needed it,” she says Meanwhile, a shattered family prays for justice. - (Black-on-white)
SEATTLE, Wash. — The man who killed a Seattle police officer and wounded his partner in a 2009 ambush will spend the rest of his life in prison instead of getting the death penalty, a jury decided. 
The teen driver who fled the scene after hitting a Temple University student has pleaded guilty to all charges. 18-year-old Rashan Roberts waived his preliminary hearing back in May and admitted guilt in court Thursday. Roberts only had his learner's permit when he ran over 22-year-old 
ERIE, Pa. - As her teenage son sits in jail for murder, the mother of 14-year-old Derrys Sanders Jr. is speaking out, for the first time since his arrest. The mother of the 14-year-old suspect charged in the murder of 
Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook has identified the teenager shot and killed while riding his bike in Erie Saturday afternoon. Cook identified the victim as 18-year-old 
The suspected murderer of a Columbus woman is facing more serious charges than when he was first arrested. Valley Police have served capital murder warrants for Salem man Stacey Gray, the man accused of murdering 
FAYETTEVILLE, NC — A man who police have been seeking for a couple of weeks has now been charged in a rape that happened earlier this month in Fayetteville, Police say. Police said that a woman was seeking a ride in a vehicle — and that led to her kidnapping and rape on Saturday, July 11 near the area of Russell Street and the Eastern Boulevard corridor.. Now, after a search for days, Jeremy Keith Asbury, age 23, of Millstone Road in Ellerbe, was arrested in the Rockingham area by deputies with Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Twenty-five years ago, 
“From my review at this point in time I don’t see excessive force,” said Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan. Whelan says Moat was pulled over for going the wrong way down a one way street after police were responding to a burglary. During a pat down, Whelan contends police found a stolen loaded .38 caliber gun in Moat’s waist band. “Mr. Moat turns around punches the first officer in the face and then ultimately punches the second officer in the face, this is not clearly seen on video,” said Whelan. Whelan contends the 49-year-old who has a lengthy criminal record spanning decades wouldn’t comply with officers and resisted arrest even after being tazed twice, therefore justifying the use of greater force. “We feel the first one, they remove it, who knows if he has a second gun, it wouldn’t be unusual,” said Whelan.
PHILADELPHIA — A tenured professor at a Pennsylvania university who previously questioned the Holocaust and called for Israel’s destruction is now making incendiary remarks about Jews, women and gays. 
“I mean, I’d rather if she was going to f–k some n—-r, I’d rather have her marry an 8-foot-tall n—-r worth a hundred million dollars! Like a basketball player! I guess we’re all a little racist. Fucking n—-r.”
The New Mexico State Police chief says he would personally pay for a return ticket for a fugitive living in Cuba wanted in the killing of a New Mexico police officer. Charlie Hill fled to the communist island after authorities say he killed state police officer
Millions of people viewed video of the fatal police shooting March 1 of an unarmed black man known as "Africa" outside his skid row tent. Police said the man, Cameroonian immigrant Charly Keunang, grabbed an officer's holstered gun when they tried to take him into custody on suspicion of robbery. The shooting stoked long-simmering tensions and anger among skid row inhabitants and advocates who accuse Los Angeles police of being too quick to resort to heavy-handed, violent tactics. Lost in the debate was a second actor in the confrontation: A thin black woman who stepped into the frame and picked up a nightstick one of the officers dropped during the fierce struggle with Keunang. The homeless woman, Trishawn Cardessa Carey, 34, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon against a police officer and resisting arrest, and could face 25 years to life in prison under California's three-strikes sentencing law for repeat offenders.
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- An Oktibbeha County man has been arrested on charges he was having sex with a horse. Sheriff's investigators filed charges of unnatural intercourse against Larry Mobley, 25, of Skinner Road in Oktibbeha County. A witness saw the events unfold Monday morning around 11:30 and called law enforcement. Investigators say Mobley was arrested in the woods nearby. Bond was set at $10,000. 
A homeless man allegedly raped a woman,
Police have identified a rape suspect Dontrell Williams, 26, shot and killed by police officers after refusing to drop a knife. Police were called to the home after receiving information from a woman who told them she was held against her will and repeatedly raped. The victim managed to leave the house and went to a hospital for help. Police say the victim had injuries consistent with her story. The woman was then able to give police an accurate denoscription of the home and officers then made contact with a relative of Williams, who let them into the home. Williams was then located under a bed in the home holding a knife. Williams came out from under the bed but refused to drop the knife. A taser was then deployed in an attempt to get Williams to drop the weapon. Police say Williams then made an aggressive movement towards the officers, who shot and killed him. 
Police say they arrested two 15-year-olds and a 17-year-old. Investigators said the woman was working security on a production filming in town Monday night when two men approached and ordered her at gunpoint into the trunk of her car. They drove to a bank nearby and demanded the woman's PIN to take out hundreds of dollars. Surveillance cameras at the bank captured images of the men wearing gloves and bandanas, but in one photograph the driver's face was uncovered. Police said the pair then took the woman to Johnson Park where they sexually assaulted her before letting her go on Johnson Road where she was able to walk to a gas station and call for help. All suspects are being charged as adults.
A 26-year-old Lockland man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after he admitted to having sexual contact with 
NEW CASTLE, Del. -- A registered sex offender in Delaware was arrested for sexually assaulting two teenage girls. New Castle Police say 27-year-old Matthew Hagins knew one of his alleged victims. Investigators say Hagins invited
CLAYTON, MO. – A man has been charged with the sexual assault of a girl he allegedly followed home from a grocery store. The St. Louis County Prosecutor has charged 41 year old Larry Alverson of Belleville with Statutory Sodomy of a child, Armed Criminal Action and Burglary. It’s alleged that Alverson brushed up against the girl at a Shop N’ Save. The girl told police she woke up early the next morning and found the same man in the bedroom of her Mehlville home. The girl told police he had a knife, threatened to kill her and two brothers that she shared the bedroom with, then sexually assaulted her. Both the girl and one of her brothers identified Alverson in a police line up. Alverson, who was on parole, allegedly 
A 25-year-old man was arrested after a woman accused him of exposing himself and touching her at a Newport News hotel. Police were called to the Magnuson Hotel to a report of a sex offense. A 32-year-old Newport News woman told the officers she was cleaning out one of the rooms when a man walked up behind her, exposed himself and inappropriately touched her while making inappropriate comments. The woman was able to identify the man to the officers. Police arrested Stephan Samuel Kirnon, 25, of Newport News. He is charged with one count each of indecent exposure and sexual battery. He is also charged with one count possession of marijuana. 
CINCINNATI, OH - A man is accused of exposing his private parts to witnesses on Vine Street Monday. Officials say Marvin Matthews Junior exposed his private parts as he was walking down the 5400 block of Vine Street. According to an complaint, Matthews admitted during an interview with officials to exposing his private parts and said that he was doing it because he was intoxicated and angry at his ex-wife, who he had an argument. Matthews was charged with public indecency. 
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HAYWARD — A Hayward police officer was shot dead during a traffic stop Wednesday morning. The officer,
Norman Park, GA - Arrests have been made in the shooting death of a disabled Norman Park man. It happened July 5th around midnight at the man's Georgia Highway 26 home. Seven teenagers, all of Colquitt County, have been charged with 68 year-old 
COLBERT, OKLA. -- OHP Troopers arrested Ramon Rashad Jordan, 34, of Platter on Monday at the Love's in Colbert. He will face murder charges for the death of 19 year-old 
NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia Police have confirmed that a murder suspect was shot and killed by police Wednesday morning after opening fire on SWAT officers who were serving a warrant. The incident occurred around 6:10 a.m. on the 800 block of Riverside Drive. One officer was struck in the lower abdomen by gunfire but was wearing a bulletproof vest. Officers returned fire, injuring the suspect who sources have identified as Devon Guisherd, 27. Both the officer and Guisherd were transported to Aria Torresdale Hospital where Guisherd later died around 6:42 a.m. 
A Tulsa man who was arrested after the body of a missing Talala man was found this week told police the victim’s death occurred after he was bound and gagged and left in a covered pickup bed on a hot day, police said in an arrest report. Vernon Lee-Mountel Smith was arrested in Tulsa on Monday in the death of 
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former professional boxer convicted in the 1987 killing of his former manager has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Exum Speight, 51, was sentenced Tuesday in Los Angeles after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter. Authorities say Speight stabbed, strangled and beat
Andre Anderson, a black U.S. Army veteran who previously oversaw criminal investigations for police in Glendale, Ariz., will become Ferguson's interim police chief on Thursday, the city said in a statement.
An illegal alien from the Philippines, 26-year-old 
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NEW ORLEANS – Police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found in the trunk of her burned out car in New Orleans East in June. On June 21, 
PHOENIX -- It was a brutal case that shocked a Tempe neighborhood,
MEHLVILLE, Mo. — Police think they’ve found the man who broke into 
CLEVELAND- A convicted sex offender is sitting in the Cleveland city jail suspected of a new attack on a woman waiting for a bus. Eddie Brisbon, 41, was picked up on a warrant and is now charged with rape. A police report shows the attack happened early one morning back in June. A woman told police she was robbed and raped in an attack that began near East 79th Street and Euclid Avenue, a bus stop for RTA’s HealthLine bus. Court records show the suspect had a gun and took the woman’s purse. When he found nothing of value, he forced the woman to go to several warehouses and perform sex acts. The victim said the man had a broken beer bottle and threatened to kill her.
VOORHEES, NJ – Authorities say a man and two women have been arrested in connection with a human trafficking case in Camden County. Officials say Michael D. Watts, 43, is accused of luring a 20-year-old Texas woman to New Jersey by promising her a modeling job. He then allegedly forced her to dance at a Philadelphia strip club for several days, not allowing her to leave.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A Volusia County man has been arrested after deputies say he left puppies in his vehicle while he went to the beach in 92-degree weather. Shanton Penn, 23, has been charged with animal cruelty in the Sunday afternoon incident at Daytona Beach. Deputies said they were flagged down by beachgoers just after 3 p.m. who said that Penn had locked three puppies in his vehicle and left them to return to the beach for 15 to 20 minutes. According to the report, deputies found the 5- to 7-week-old puppies panting heavily, with one laying on his side with his eyes closed. No water was found in the vehicle, which had the windows down 1.5 inches.
LAWTON, Okla - James Davis Jr., the suspect in Lawton’s fifth homicide of 2015, was charged Friday. Davis is accused of fatally stabbing 36-year-old 
ROANOKE, Va. - Friends and family were hurting Saturday night at a candle light vigil as they remembered a toddler shot and killed in Roanoke earlier in the week. Warner Hunter III is accused of shooting 
According to Live Oak Police Chief Buddy Williams, Casey Cason, 22, is being charged with murder in the stabbing death of her friend on 5th Street in Live Oak. However, Cason isn't saying what started the altercation that led to the fatal stabbing. **** Around 4 p.m. Sunday, Live Oak Police Chief Buddy Williams said Cason got into an altercation with a friend at Cason’s residence on 5th Street. The fracas took to the street in front of the home, where Cason ultimately pulled out a knife and stabbed 23-year-old 
Deportation orders failed to oust two illegal immigrants who are now up on drug charges and under investigation in the July 4 shooting death of a Lawrence grandmother — in an alarming case that critics say illustrates a revolving immigration door with dangerous consequences. Dominican Republic nationals Wilton Lara-Calmona and Jose M. Lara-Mejia were arrested on drug charges by police investigating the shooting death of 
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A local man who just turned 18 is charged with the murder of an Army veteran and the stabbing of his friend in a Walgreens parking lot early Saturday. Erico Montalvo, of 10 Pocasset Ave., wore no expression as he was led handcuffed into District Court to face the charges. The timing, coincidentally, was just before the funeral Mass for 26-year-old 
HAMDEN, Conn. — A fifth person, who sources say is the grandson of a former New Haven police chief, has been arrested in connection with the July 4th homicide where the victim’s body was found in West Rock State Park in Hamden following reports of an explosion. Police tracked down 26-year-old Maurice Wearing of West Haven. Sources say he’s the grandson of Melvin Wearing, who was New Haven’s police chief from 1997-2003. Wearing is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree hindering prosecution, and tampering with evidence. Police say Wearing and four other people, who were arrested Monday, were involved in the homicide of 39-year-old 
INDIANAPOLIS – Police released new information in the murder of a 34-year-old woman found in the basement of an east side home. When officers arrived they saw a black male, later identified as Stephen Jones, 32, walk out of the residence. Jones told the officers everything was fine and there was no one else inside the house. Several officers then went into the basement where they found a dead woman in a blue plastic tub. The woman’s head, arm, and leg were covered in plastic trash bags. Upon further investigation, officers discovered the woman was shot in the chest and the face and she had several other injuries to her head. Additionally, her ankle had a large laceration and it appeared to be broken. "Candace" told police she owned the house. She said she got into a fight with Jones over missing money. The woman said she left the house at 7 p.m., and when she left her friend 
ORLANDO, Fla. — A third teenager was arrested Saturday in connection to an incident that severely injured an Orlando police officer early Monday morning. Orlando police arrested 17-year-old Alfonza Singleton Saturday on a warrant. He is charged with resisting arrest without violence. Authorities said Singleton ran from a vehicle that was stopped by
But did Katherine Archuleta stumble into her job? Fernandez points out that she’s an affirmative-action appointee, with her Opm.gov biography stating she’s part of an “inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of America.” And what does she know about computer networks or security? Apparently nothing. As her biography informs. So Archuleta may be qualified to secure “diversity,” and this may include the diversity of foreign spies in American networks. And while an OPM data breach doesn’t sound as sexy as James Bond combating Goldfinger, it’s a serious matter. 
