Author: Jack Bogart

Six tourists — including an unnamed American man — have now reportedly died in Laos after drinking alcohol that authorities suspect was tainted with methanol. On Friday, Nov. 22, the family of 19-year-old Australian, Holly Bowles, released a statement confirming the teenager had died after being on life support in a Bangkok hospital, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The statement, which was also published by the Associated Press, read: “We are so sad to say that our beautiful girl Holly is now at peace.” “We find comfort and solace in knowing that Holly brought so much joy and happiness to…

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned for president in 2016 in part by styling himself as a tough-on-crime contender who, if elected, would institute a national anti-crime agenda, crack down on immigration and bring “very strong, very swift,” law and order. His incendiary rhetoric and messaging on crime had set off alarm bells among many Democrats and criminal justice advocates ahead of his January 2017 inauguration. “I am the law and order candidate,” he told voters, before adding in the next breath, “I am also the candidate of compassion.”But the second part of his remarks did little to assuage fears that under Trump, the…

John Bennett Ramsey has been married to his wife, Jan Rousseaux Ramsey, since 2011. The Other Side of Suffering author’s 6-year-old daughter, JonBenét Ramsey, was killed on Dec. 26, 1996. JonBenét’s death, which is the subject of Netflix’s three-part docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét, remains unsolved despite theories of a potential intruder and one alleged false confession. John was previously married to Lucinda Ramsey and to JonBenét’s mother, Patsy Ramsey, from 1980 until her death of ovarian cancer in 2006. On July 21, 2011, 15 years after JonBenét’s murder, he tied the knot with fashion designer Jan per CBS…

The owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling hundreds of bodies in room-temperature conditions inside a dilapidated building and giving loved ones concrete instead of ashes have pleaded guilty to corpse abuse. Jon and Carie Hallford, who own the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty to 191 counts of abuse of a corpse on Friday. “The bodies were [lying] on the ground, stacked on shelves, left on gurneys, stacked on top of each other or just piled in rooms,” prosecutor Rachael Powell said in court. Their loved ones are “intensely and forever outraged,” she added. Some…

Authorities investigating the killing of a Colorado professor in August say they have identified a suspect who is yet to be located.  The body of Haleh Abghari was found in her Colorado Springs, Colo., home in August, local police said in a statement. This week, police announced a second-degree murder warrant against Ceasar Lorenzo Wilson, who has not yet been located, per the statement.  On Aug. 12, police responded to an “unknown call for service” around 7 a.m., and found Abghari, 54, dead with a stab wound, they said in the statement.  The El Paso County Coroner’s Office conducted an…

Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., wants to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and plans to put forward a measure that would do just that.”The ATF is a disaster,” Burlison, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told Fox News Digital on Thursday, adding that “for decades they’ve been a disaster agency” which has “been violating the… Second Amendment.”The congressman suggested that states should be allowed to handle matters themselves, without federal interference.”There’s very few ATF officials,” he said, accusing the agency of “co-opting or commandeering [local] law enforcement to enforce laws” which state lawmakers did…

Conor McGregor was found liable in connection with a 2018 sexual assault in Dublin, Ireland on FridayThe MMA fighter has been ordered to pay the victim nearly €250,000McGregor said he is appealing the decision in a post on X after the trial MMA fighter Conor McGregor was found liable in a civil rape and sexual assault case in an Ireland court on Friday, according to multiple reports. The 36-year-old athlete was accused in a civil suit brought forward in 2021 of “brutally” raping and battering a woman named Nikita Hand while she was intoxicated in Dec. 2018, after she invited…

There are a lot of optics on the market these days, and what’s out there can be overwhelming. It’s easy to get into the rut of just sticking with the big three or four brands you’re familiar with, but you’d be missing out if you do. There are some great optics from companies that you may not know yet and the ERD-1 from C&H Precision is probably one of them. The ERD-1 I’d been seeing C&H optics pop up in my social media feed for a while now and decided to take a closer look. The optic I picked up…

The murder trial for a Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife to death has been put on hold after the defense attorney “suddenly quit” during jury selection.James Toliver Craig, 45, is accused of killing his wife, Angela Craig, by putting poison in her protein shakes.Angela Craig, a 43-year-old mother of six who was married to her husband for 23 years, died in March 2023 of poisoning from cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, the latter a substance found in over-the-counter eye drops, according to the coroner.The trial has been delayed before and was set to begin Thursday with jury selection, KDVR reported. However, on…

No decision was made today on the request for bail from Sean “Diddy” Combs, though the judge said at a hearing on Friday, Nov. 21, that he expects to make a decision by next week. Combs, 55, entered the Manhattan federal courtroom through a side door, dressed in a khaki jail-issued outfit. He smiled and waved toward his family in the second row, including his twin 17-year-old daughters. Following a heated two-hour hearing, Judge Arun Subramanian instructed both the U.S. Attorney’s office and the defense team to provide more clarification on how Combs has been communicating from behind bars in…