A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on "American Idol" was set to be sentenced Monday after a jury convicted him of murdering his wife while he was having an affair. Prosecutors said Caleb Flynn, 40, staged a home invasion in February after shooting his wife, Ashley Flynn, a 37-year-old schoolteacher and volleyball coach. Flynn claimed she...

Justin Fairfax in 2019. He served as Virginia’s lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.Credit...Parker Michels-Boyce for The New York Times

Mr. Fairfax, a Democrat, served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022. The couple's children were home at the time, the police said, and their son called 911.  Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia, fatally shot his wife, Cerina Fairfax, and then killed himself at their home in Annandale, Va., shortly after midnight on Th...

The Brief Family and friends believe Elaijia Whitley was killed in a domestic violence incident involving her partner.Police found Whitley shot inside her car outside her job but have not identified a suspect or motive.Loved ones held a pink balloon release, remembering Whitley as kindhearted and ambitious with dreams of working in medicine. GWINNE...

Cecil McCrary arrested in connection with his girlfriend's murder.

The Brief The Brief Cecil McCrary, 56, confessed to killing his girlfriend Tange Davis and burying her body in Atlanta.Davis was reported missing by her son after she hadn't been heard from since Thursday.Police said McCrary was already out on pretrial release for kidnapping and aggravated assault charges. COBB COUNTY, Ga. - A man has been arrested...

Sanbrina Walker

The Brief The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Sabrina Walker, 56, was shot outside her Douglasville home Saturday night by her husband, Volanta Lejuan Walker, after an argument.Sunday would have been Sabrina's 57th birthday and the grand opening of her business, Groomsmen Atlanta.Family members described her as passionate about her work as a h...

Howie Rubin attends the Center for Comprehensive Health Practice- Early Childhood Development Center Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 25, 2013 in New York City. Mireya Acierto/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

Rubin allegedly had a sex "dungeon" and recruited ex-Playboy models. A retired investment banker was arrested Friday at his Connecticut home on federal charges he trafficked women for sex acts in luxury hotels and at a Manhattan apartment converted into a sex dungeon with BDSM equipment, according to a federal indictment. Howie Rubin, 70, and his f...

Teasha Ariele Colbert, 42 founddead

MACON, Ga. — A dead body was found stuffed in a trash can in the Sanford Arms Apartments, behind the CVS on Gray Highway on Thursday morning, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said. The Bibb County Sheriff's Office Deputies went to the apartments to investigate a report of a missing person, according to a release. When they got there, they say deputie...

Mazi's mother

A Georgia woman has been arrested months after her 7-year-old son died when his head became trapped in a car window in Atlanta. The Atlanta Police Department said Kandice Grace, 32, of Milledgeville, was taken into custody Sept. 29 on charges of second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to children. She was booked into the Fulton County Jail a...

The house in Muskogee, Okla., where the 11-year-old lived where children were exposed to unstable and unsanitary conditions. © Isabel Flores

The grandmother of an 11-year-old girl who gave birth last month at her family's Oklahoma home was charged after prosecutors alleged she knew about the pregnancy and failed to report it to authorities. Michelle Justus, the maternal grandmother of the child, was charged with six counts of felony child neglect, according to the Muskogee County Distri...

Johns Creek police officers responded to a home off Glen Castle Court in the St. Ives Country Club for a welfare check on Sunday afternoon.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Three people are dead, including a young teen, in what police believe was a murder-suicide. Johns Creek police officers responded to a home off Glen Castle Court in the St. Ives Country Club for a welfare check on Sunday afternoon. The deceased have been identified as James Choi, 52, Myoung Choi, 52, and 15-year-...

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Angela Craig was complaining of severe headaches and dizziness. She had been to the hospital three times in 10 days, yet doctors in Colorado couldn't explain what was causing her illness. "I feel drugged," she texted her husband, James Craig, during her first hospitalization. She told him the only thing she consumed that morning was her protein sha...

The Brief Police responded to a domestic disturbance and shots fired call Wednesday morning at a home on Weymouth Drive. A man was still firing inside the residence when officers arrived. One man was found dead inside the home, and a woman was injured and taken to the hospital; her condition remains unknown. LOCUST GROVE, Ga. - Police said a man is...

Sad Woman- Buckhead shooting

ATLANTA — Atlanta police say a fight between a husband and wife that turned deadly in Buckhead has been deemed a "justifiable homicide." The domestic dispute forced neighbors out of the apartment complex. At about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to the Cortland Peachtree Battle apartment complex at 2420 Peachtree Road in Atlanta to reports o...

Male sex worker Daniel Phillip

Sean "Diddy" Combs is accused of sex trafficking and other crimes, and opening statements of his federal trial in Manhattan are expected to begin on Monday, May 12. A 2024 federal indictment alleges that Combs used his influence in the music industry to manipulate and lure women, then forced them to take part in orchestrated sex acts at so-called "...

Diddy on Trial May 2025

Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, has told the hip-hop mogul's sex-trafficking trial that he controlled her life and coerced her into "humiliating" sex acts. The prosecution's star witness testified about the alleged physical and emotional abuse she endured at the hands of the rapper during so-called "freak-offs", or sexual encou...

Arrested for child porn

The Brief 28-year-old Daniel Menelaou was arrested on Wednesday.Menelaou was a youth pastor at Futures Church in Alpharetta.Police seized electronic devices from Menelaou's Roswell home ROSWELL, Ga. - A Roswell man has been arrested on six counts of possession of child sexual abuse material following an investigation by the Roswell Police Departmen...

#RIPCotinaFuller

The man who allegedly killed his wife last week in Macon had repeatedly been accused of domestic violence before the fatal shooting, according to the Bibb County district attorney's office. Cotina Louise Fuller, 51, was allegedly shot and killed by her 44-year-old husband, Wayne Anthony Fuller Jr. Friday. But statements from District Attorney Anita...

James Craig

A Colorado dentist accused of murdering his wife by poisoning her protein shake also allegedly plotted to kill an Aurora police detective who investigated the case, a department spokesman told CNN. James Craig, 45, faces two additional felony charges including solicitation to commit first-degree murder, according to a court filing by prosecutors wi...

John Jessups young daughter

Rachel was sexually assaulted by her father on the night of Jan. 25 in Las Vegas, she said, during what was supposed to be a celebration trip for her 21st birthday HANCOCK COUNTY — One of Rachel Jessup's fondest childhood memories used to be going to the polls on Election Day with her dad, John Jessup. Rachel started going to the polls with Jessup,...

Maury-Ange Martinez, 20, vanished in August 2023 after she was last seen in Cobb County. Her remains were found in the woods in Chattanooga in January and were positively identified in June Police said 20-year-old Maury-Ange Faith Martinez, of Alpharetta, was reported missing in August 2023 before her remains were found earlier this year. COBB COUN...