This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Ed Mazza on September 1st, 2016. It’s the real thing. Workers at a Coca-Cola plant in France found about 815 pounds of cocaine in a shipping container last week. The shipment, from Costa Rica, was supposed to contain orange juice extract. Instead, it had about $55 million in cocaine. Local prosecutor Xavier […]

This article orginally appeared on Huffington Post by Nina Golgowski on August 30th, 2016. A multi-state search for an accused sex offender and four missing kids ended with the children’s safe recovery Sunday, authorities said. Joseph Moreno, 37, and Penny Rascon, 37, who had been wanted in California, were located at a convenience store outside New Orleans, according to

Nearly five years ago, Nikki Petree accidentally bounced a check for $28.93. Judge Milas “Butch” Hale ― the man behind a so-called “debtors’ prison” in Sherwood, Arkansas ― sentenced her to jail last month, even after she paid hundreds of dollars in court fines and had been arrested in connection with the case at least seven times.

This article originally appeared on NH1 on August 28th, 2016.  The Supreme Court has sent a same-sex divorce back to the lower courts, and that decision could also affect opposite-sex couples. The unanimous ruling stems from the divorce case of Deborah Munson and Coralee Beal, of Chester. The couple began living together in 1993, were joined in

This article originally appeared on Go Erie by Tim Hahn on August 26th, 2016 A pediatrician who heads the Child Advocacy Center at a Pittsburgh hospital testified Thursday morning that a 4-month-old boy brought to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC in late February was unresponsive and on a ventilator while being treated for severe head injuries when she

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by David Moye on August 25th, 2016. A Pennsylvania woman is accused of stabbing her husband with scissors after he drank her last beer. Tracey Lee Giffin, 45, of North Union Township, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Sunday after she allegedly slashed her sleeping husband with scissors and bit him, according to PennLive.com. Police responded

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Ed Mazza on August 17th, 2016.  A man accused of masturbating on the New York City subway was chased off the train in an incident that was caught on camera. Deanna Carter posted a clip to Facebook showing a man holding a backpack on his lap and looking extremely uncomfortable while

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by David Moye on August 23rd, 2016. Two Idaho women were arrested on child endangerment charges this week after a video reportedly posted on Facebook appeared to show four adults smoking pot in a room with child, at one point blowing smoke into the boy’s face. According to KPVI, the alleged incident occurred

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Melissa Jeltsen on August 22nd, 2016. A few weeks before her death, Megan Short logged onto Facebook and clicked on a story about emotional abuse. The article, titled “He didn’t hit me. It was still abuse,” resonated with her. In it, author Leigh Stein described the peculiarities of surviving an abusive

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Ed Mazza on August 17th, 2016. A college student killed a Florida couple and then tried to eat the face of one of the victims on Monday, an act that appeared to be entirely at random, local law enforcement said. Police said 19-year-old Florida State University student Austin Harrouff had been