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Elena Bardin, a 27-year-old former English teacher at Adair County Juvenile Detention Center, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for sexually abusing a 17-year-old male inmate. The sentencing followed her September 2025 conviction for first-degree sexual abuse, unlawful transaction with a minor, and distribution of obscene material to a minor.

A devastating domestic-violence murder-suicide has left Rhode Island shaken after Sean Rivera, 24, fatally shot Kimberly Pieranunzi, 40, and Donald Roderick Jr., 45, inside their Rathbun Street apartment before killing himself. The only survivor was Pieranunzi’s 19-year-old daughter, Jazmyn Roderick, who escaped the attack and alerted authorities.

Houston Police have charged Gabriel Isaiah Menefee, an alleged Play No Games (PNG) gang member, with the murder of 25-year-old Jaylon Ward in a west Houston hotel. The case highlights Menefee’s violent criminal history, repeated bond releases, and growing controversy over Harris County’s bail system.

A tragic early-morning incident on November 16, 2025, left two people dead in what Grover Beach Police Department (GBPD) has confirmed as an apparent murder-suicide.

Dateline NBC’s “Running Man” aired on November 14, 2025, diving into the 2023 murder of Ashley Schwalm, a 40-year-old mother from Collingwood, Ontario. The episode was reported by Andrea Canning, who grew up in the nearby Blue Mountains region.

Mark Stanley Personette, an 80-year-old Colorado man, has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 1978 killing of 15-year-old Marissa Rolf Harvey — a landmark verdict that finally closes one of San Francisco’s most haunting cold cases. The decision, delivered on November 13, 2025, comes nearly 47 years after Harvey vanished during a visit to the city.

In January 2022, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus from its eighth-grade curriculum.

A 17-year-old girl, Lainie Williams, has been formally identified as the victim of a horrific assault that took place at a home in Cefn Fforest, near Blackwood, Wales, on Thursday, 13 November 2025. The deadly incident has left the tight-knit community in shock as police continue their murder investigation.

A major breakthrough has emerged in the St. Helena Island mass shooting that left four people dead and 15 others wounded during a crowded high school reunion. Anferny Devon Freeman, 27, has been formally charged with four counts of murder and multiple weapons offenses in connection with the deadly October 12, 2025, shooting outside Willie’s Bar and Grill.

A Minnesota workplace turned into a horrific crime scene on November 11, 2025, after a 20-year-old welder was bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer by her co-worker.