Author: Jack Bogart

A Houston attorney allegedly shot his adult son and then burnt his body on a wood pile before calling police the next morning, roughly 17 hours later, to tell them about what he claimed was a “horrible accident,” authorities say. Michael Howard, 68, was arrested Monday and charged with one count of murder and another of tampering with evidence, Sabine County investigator JP MacDonough told reporters at a press conference Thursday. The deceased son, Mark Howard, was 20 years old and had been diagnosed with Down syndrome, according to MacDonough, who described the victim as a “high functioning” individual who…

A Manhattan judge agreed to drop the manslaughter charge faced by Daniel Penny, after prosecutors sought the move following a deadlock by the jury deciding the ex-Marine’s fate. Penny still faces charges of criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 chokehold death of Jordan Neely. But on Friday, after three days of jury deliberations failed to render a verdict, the Manhattan District Attorney asked Judge Maxwell Wiley to drop the manslaughter charge Penny was facing, which could have landed him in jail for 15 years, the Associated Press reported. If convicted of criminally negligent homicide, a lesser charge than manslaughter,…

An unidentified gunman approached UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson from behind Wednesday morning and opened fire outside the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan, then vanished into the streets of the Big Apple, prompting a large-scale manhunt.Authorities have not revealed a motive, but after bullet casings at the scene were found with words “deny”, “depose” and “defend” written on them – a possible reference to the book “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” – speculation swirled that the slaying may have grown out of resentment for a denied claim.Thompson was separated…

The man who police believe killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel is believed to have left New York City. New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch told CNN in an interview that investigators now have “reason to believe” the suspect is outside the city. CNN also spoke to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny who said that after leaving Central Park, the suspect was seen on surveillance footage walking in the area of 86th Street and Columbus Avenue, more than 30 blocks north of where the shooting occurred. Kenny told the outlet that the suspect, who has…

If ever you’ve looked to crack open a nonfiction book detailing the tales of one man, a former bodyguard of Elvis Presley, who earned himself both a super middleweight kickboxing championship and a drug smuggling conviction, the pages are now hot off the printers.Ted Pryor, formerly refereed by Chuck Norris and training partner of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Don “The Dragon” Wilson, was hired by Presley following his world championship win. He details the job in his newly released book, “Three-Time World Champ: The Death-Defying True Story of a Kickboxer Turned Drug Smuggler . . . Turned Business…

Content warning: This article contains disturbing descriptions of violence. A Texas man who murdered, dismembered and burned the bodies of three people — and admitted to eating part of the remains of one victim — has been sentenced to death, prosecutors said. Jason Thornburg, 44, was found guilty by a Tarrant County jury of capital murder for the brutal 2021 killings that took place over seven days in Euless, Texas, a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth, the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release shared on Wednesday, Dec. 4.  Prosecutors said Thornburg killed David Lueras, 42, Maricruz Mathis,…

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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Governor J.B. Pritzker’s gun and magazine ban will remain in effect through the appeals process.  Last month, US District Court Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled the so-called “Protect Illinois Communities Act” gun and magazine ban largely unconstitutional.  However, he issued a 30-day stay, which allowed the Land of Lincoln’s Attorney General Kwame Raoul a chance to appeal, which Raoul promptly did. Without getting too deep in the weeds, we on the pro-gun side (I’m the Executive Director of Guns Save Life, one of the many organizational plaintiffs) had…

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JERUSALEM — After Turkey-backed radical Islamist forces seized the pivotal Syrian city of Hama on Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cheered the astonishing military advance of his allies.”I would say we hope for this advance to continue without any issues,” Erdogan said on Friday, according to a Reuters report.He added that the capital city of Damascus, where Syrian dictator Bashar Assad resides, is the objective. “The target is Damascus.”Erdogan continued, “However, while this resistance there with terrorist organizations is continuing, we had made a call to Assad,” referring to his approach to Assad earlier this year to meet and normalize…