Month: July 2020

South Korean police have admitted using violence to extract a false confession from a man who spent 20 years in prison for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old. Yoon — whose full name is not being published due to a South Korean law that protects the privacy of suspects and criminals — was the

An Alabama pastor has shut down his church after several staff and members tested positive for the coronavirus. Rev. Derek Allen, pastor of First Baptist Tillman’s Corner in Mobile, says the church is now going back to online services. “We shut down the church before the state even asked us,” Allen said. “We had already

An Ohio priest who allegedly pretended to be a woman on social media to entice minor male victims has been indicted on child pornography, child exploitation and juvenile sex trafficking charges, a US attorney announced. Robert D. McWilliams, 40, is charged with sex trafficking of a minor, sexual exploitation of children and transportation of child

Richard Stitely had spent nearly 30 years on death row when the pandemic hit California’s San Quentin State Prison. Last week, Stitely, 71, was found dead in his cell, marking the first known death linked to coronavirus inside the California prison with the largest outbreak of Covid-19 in the state. More than a third of

A woman who lost her engagement ring the in waters of Rockaway Beach, New York, thought she would never see it again until she asked for help from some local treasure hunters. Gina Bopp was at Rockaway Beach with friends when one of the young boys in her group got caught in a wave on

The city of Somerville, Massachusetts, will now recognize polyamorous relationships after the city council voted in favor of a new domestic partnership ordinance in a meeting last Thursday. Councilor Lance Davis, who supported the ordinance, told CNN he believes this is the first ordinance of its kind in the country. The domestic partnership ordinance was

At least 152 cases of coronavirus are linked to a bar in East Lansing, Michigan, health officials said. The current cases that were traced to Harper’s Restaurant & Brew Pub “includes 128 primary cases and 24 secondary cases,” Amanda Darche, a spokesperson for the Ingham Health Department, told CNN. Secondary cases are people who were

An Aurora, Colorado, police officer under investigation for photos taken near the site where Elijah McClain was placed in a chokehold last August has resigned, the police department said Thursday. The officer, who was hired October 31, 2016, was “one of the employees involved and depicted in the photograph investigation related to” Elijah McClain, the