This article originally appeared on New York Post by Emily Saul on August 11th, 2016.  A once-fugitive vegan restaurateur and her spouse — who were brought to justice because they foolishly ordered verboten cheese pizza to their hideaway — are parting ways, The Post has learned.   Sarma Melngailis and Anthony Strangis were in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday for brief […]

A Tennessee father is facing reckless homicide charges after police say he accidentally fatally shot his 11-year-old daughter on her first day of sixth grade. Timothy Batts, 29, drove his daughter, Timea Batts, to the emergency room on Monday from their home in the city of Hendersonville, NBC News reports. Timea had a gunshot wound

This article originally appeared on People by Harriet Sokmensuer on August 3rd, 2016. A Pennsylvania judge ruled Tuesday that Lee Kaplan, the Festerville manarrested in June after police allegedly rescued 12 girls from his home, will stand trial for sexual assault and related charges, PEOPLE confirms. Bucks County Assistant District Attorney Kate Kohler tells PEOPLE that the parents

This article originally appeared on Business Insider by Christopher Woody on August 5th, 2016. Pennsylvania investigators said Thursday they charged six peopleafter recovering more than a quarter-ton of cocaine from a Philadelphia warehouse and two vehicles. The investigation involved a drug-trafficking organization that smuggled large quantities of cocaine from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to various locations in the

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by David Moye on August 4th, 2016. A man in Dallas, Georgia, is facing bestiality charges after his neighbor says she saw him having sex with a female goat. Freddie Wadsworth was arrested Friday after the woman called police, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The neighbor told police she saw the activity from her

This article originally appeared on Go Erie by Madeleine O’Neill on August 3rd, 2016.  A defendant accused of involvement in a July 2015 double homicide is claiming the shooting was retaliation in a dispute between gangs and that he was not involved. That was one of several arguments made in a series of pretrial motions submitted in Erie County

This article originally appeared on Philly.com on July 22nd, 2016.  Trim waiting period A Philadelphia lawyer took the position in a commentary that the Pennsylvania legislature should not reduce the waiting period for a no-fault divorce from two years to one (“Don’t shorten waiting time for Pa. divorce,” July 13). As leaders of the state chapter of

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Steven Hoffer on August 1st, 2016. An Arizona couple is accused of leaving their 2-year-old son home alone while they went out to play “Pokemon Go.” The San Tan Valley parents were arrested on Thursday after their child was found outside their home, in 96-degree heat, wearing a diaper and a T-shirt,

This article originally appeared on Daily Mail by the Associated Press on July 29th, 2016. A Pennsylvania mother is accused of lacing her baby son’s formula with a drug that helps heroin addicts kick the habit so he would sleep. Corinne Barndt, 28, told police she spiked her eight-month-old son’s formula six or seven times from November 2015 to

This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller by Eric Lieberman on July 26th, 2016. Attendees of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia are able to drink booze this week — even if it doesn’t comply with Pennsylvania law. State lawmakers approved temporary “national event permits,” with temporal parameters limited to this week, despite the fact that the