The family of a teenager who died over the weekend near St. Louis is demanding to know why it took days for them to learn she had been struck by a sheriff’s deputy’s vehicle, alleging authorities initially framed the incident as a hit-and-run. Persephone Berger, 16, was hit by a deputy who was responding to…
A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on “American Idol” is on trial on charges that he killed his wife while having an affair more than a decade after gushing to TV viewers about how she encouraged him to chase his dreams on the singing competition. Caleb Flynn, 40, has pleaded not guilty to…
A hunter shot and killed a woman in Delaware last week after he mistook her for a deer, police said. Walter Moorhead, 74, faces multiple charges, including manslaughter and reckless endangerment, for fatally shooting Santos Maria Chilel Soto, 39, Friday evening in the town of Ellendale, according to Delaware State Police. Moorhead, of Salisbury, Maryland,…
“The Kingdom and the Power,” Gay Talese’s 1969 book, recounted power plays and family feuds at The New York Times, where he rose from copyboy to reporter. A work of non-fiction that read like a well-observed novel, it was his first bestseller – one that took Talese six years to write. “I’ve always been a…
