Author: Jack Bogart

A sorority and two members of a fraternity have been charged, months after an ill-fated party led to the death of a 20-year-old student at Dartmouth. The Alpha Phi sorority was charged as a corporation by police in Hanover, New Hampshire, with one count of facilitating an underage alcohol house, and two members of the Beta Alpha Omega fraternity were charged with providing alcohol to a person under 21.Dartmouth is located in Hanover. The charges stem from an off-campus party July 6 that Won Jang, 20, attended. SECOND DARTMOUTH STUDENT FOUND DEAD IN CONNECTICUT RIVER IN TWO MONTHS After the party hosted by…

The man convicted of killing Laken Riley was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole by a judge in Georgia on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student, was killed on Feb. 22 while she was out on a jog on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Ga. Jose Ibarra was found guilty of murder in her killing by an Athens County judge, whose verdict was livestreamed on Court TV. Ibarra was found guilty on one count of malice murder, three counts of felony murder, and kidnapping, aggravated assault with attempt to rape,…

A Civil Air Patrol plane crash Saturday morning in Colorado left two people dead and a third “severely injured,” authorities said. The occupants of the Cessna 182 were participating in a search and rescue training exercise when the plane went down in a wooded area of Larimer County, the Civil Air Patrol confirmed to Fox News Digital. “Our deepest sympathies go out to the families, members, and friends affected by this tragic event,” Maj. Gen. Regena Aye, national commander of Civil Air Patrol, said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital. “Our members serve because they care about America’s communities. Our…

A recent Gallup poll found more Republican women are becoming gun owners than before, while gun ownership among Democratic-leaning men declines.According to the Gallup survey published Thursday, the percentage of Republican female gun owners has increased from 19% from 2007-2012 to 33% from 2019-2024.Twenty-two percent of Republican women surveyed in 2013-2018 told Gallup they owned guns, meaning there has been a 50% increase in gun ownership among conservative women since.”Meanwhile, the rate has fallen seven percentage points among Democratic men, to 29%, and is down five points among independent men, to 39%,” Gallup added. “Republican men remain the most likely…

An Orthodox Jewish rabbi is feared dead after “terrorist involvement” was found related to his recent disappearance, prompting an investigation by the Mossad.Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad emissary, was a resident of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates when he went missing Thursday. He is a citizen of both Moldova and Israel.According to his LinkedIn, Kogan works as a recruiter and is “passionate about volunteering and serving [his] community.”The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced its investigation into the unusual disappearance on Saturday. The statement said the disappearance appears to be related to “a terrorist incident” but did not elaborate.’CHEERLEADING…

Former American Idol contestant Caleb Kennedy has been sentenced on a felony DUI charge, nearly three years after he struck and killed a South Carolina father. Kennedy’s case was scheduled to go to trial, but he pleaded guilty on Monday, Nov. 18 to a felony driving under the influence charge resulting in death, a spokesperson for the 7th Circuit, Spartanburg County confirmed to PEOPLE. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and fined $25,100, though his sentence was reduced to eight years in prison, and his fine to $15,100. Kennedy, 20, must also serve five years of probation and…

Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother convicted of killing her two children in 1994, was denied parole on Wednesday, Nov. 20. According to South Carolina Department of Corrections Communications Director, Chrysti Shain, Smith’s life in prison after her failed parole attempt will be unchanged from before. Her next parole eligibility date will be in two years on November 20, 2026. “She never left prison,” Shain tells PEOPLE. “It will be exactly the same.” Smith, 53, appeared before the parole board Wednesday morning, saying, “I know that what I did was horrible,” CNN reports. She reportedly added: “I am a Christian and…

An Ohio man has been found guilty of raping his 11-year-old daughter after his two stepdaughters also came forward alleging he had raped them. One of the stepdaughters alleged the 48-year-old convicted sex offender raped her and that she gave birth to his child when she herself was 11. The man, of Columbus, was found guilty of one count of rape of a child under the age of 13 and one count of gross sexual imposition, the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said in a statement.  The conviction against the man, who PEOPLE is not naming to protect the identities…

Mary Bartel, 91, was an early riser.   On the morning of March 19, 2018, the feisty grandmother woke up at 4:30 a.m., took her blood pressure and then went for her daily walk around the grounds of the Preston Place Retirement Community in Plano, Texas. She then drove to a 6:30 a.m. church mass before returning to her first-floor apartment she’d once shared with her husband before he passed away. Bartel was at her computer writing an email when she heard someone incessantly knocking on her door. “I opened the door and I saw this man with his green rubber…

When 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family home in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 26, 1996, police didn’t have enough evidence to definitively identify and arrest her killer. Almost 30 years later, that’s still the case.  Netflix’s Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey? analyzes the alleged missteps the Boulder Police Department took, like not properly sealing off the crime scene and contributing to a media frenzy that focused heavily on her parents, John Bennett Ramsey and Patsy Ramsey, as suspects. He maintains his innocence, and Patsy did the same until her 2006 death due to…