COLUMBUS, OHIO — A 32-year-old Ohio doctor has been indicted on multiple felony charges after authorities say he attempted to force abortion-inducing drugs into the mouth of his pregnant girlfriend while she slept — and illegally obtained the medication using his estranged wife’s identity. The State Medical Board of Ohio has suspended the doctor’s license,…
SANFORD, FLORIDA — A 23-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to death after prosecutors said he executed his pregnant girlfriend because she refused to get an abortion. The ruling, handed down Friday in Seminole County, follows an 11–1 jury recommendation in October and marks one of the state’s most severe punishments under recently updated death…
NEW RICHMOND, WISCONSIN — A 71-year-old Wisconsin man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after admitting he killed his wife during a violent domestic incident, then left her body in a nearby cornfield before expressing surprise that police had not already found her. The case shook the St. Croix County community…
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA — Authorities are investigating how the body of an 18-year-old Georgia homicide victim was cremated before undergoing a mandatory autopsy, a mistake the district attorney described as an “egregious” failure that may result in felony charges. The teen, J.T. Schroeder, died in late October after being stabbed at a Walmart on Whitemarsh Island….
NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA — A South Carolina couple has been sentenced after prosecutors say they brought their two infants along while hunting down three men who had just cashed their paychecks, ultimately opening fire into their car and killing a 25-year-old worker in what officials called a “targeted act of depravity.” Workers Cashed Their…
MIDWEST & APPALACHIANS — New Model Data Shows a High-Impact Winter Storm Taking Shape Before Christmas, A new long-range GFS projection suggests that a significant winter storm may develop across the Midwest, Ohio Valley, and Appalachian region during Christmas week, delivering widespread heavy snow totals ranging from 10 to more than 25 inches across several…
NORTHEAST U.S. — A Pair of Long-Range Model Runs Point to the Possibility of a Major Christmas Eve Snowstorm, but Forecast Confidence Remains Very Low A new sequence of model outputs — particularly the 18z GFS runs — has generated widespread attention this week after depicting a massive, high-impact coastal snowstorm targeting New York, Pennsylvania,…
MIDWEST — A High-Impact Wind Event Threatens Widespread Ground Blizzard Conditions Across Four States, A powerful and fast-developing wind event is expected to sweep across the central United States beginning Wednesday, bringing dangerous 50–70 mph wind gusts to Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Illinois. Meteorologists warn that the combination of these extreme winds and the…
AMERICUS, GEORGIA — A former Georgia beauty queen has been sentenced to life in prison after a jury found she fatally injured her boyfriend’s 18-month-old son inside her college dorm room, a tragedy prosecutors described as a “death countdown” unfolding in less than an hour. The case, centered on events at Georgia Southwestern State University,…
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, MISSOURI — A Missouri mother and father are facing serious criminal charges after investigators say they locked their children in rooms, starved them, restricted access to food with padlocks, and punished them for vomiting from extreme hunger. Authorities described the home as “uninhabitable,” noting that the children survived under conditions of severe…