Jamie Frevele

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A Wisconsin teenager who struck and killed a woman with her own car after she tried to stop him from stealing another vehicle was sentenced to decades in prison. Jayden Adams, now 16, pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless homicide and taking a vehicle without consent on Wednesday after originally facing several felony charges in connection with the death of 47-year-old Sunita Balogun.

1 week ago | lawandcrime.com | Jamie Frevele

A New York judge has ruled that dogs can be treated as members of someone's "immediate family" and a dog's family can sue for emotional damages if they witness the dog being harmed. In a ruling issued by Judge Aaron Maslow of the Kings Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Tuesday, the family members of a 4-year-old dachshund named Duke can ask for emotional damages in their lawsuit against the driver who killed him.

1 week ago | lawandcrime.com | Jamie Frevele

A Wisconsin couple accused of allegedly attempting to poison the man's ex-girlfriends with cyanide is at the center of a multiagency investigation that landed several agents in the hospital. Paul Van Duyne, 43, and Andrea Whitaker, 41, are both in custody at the Dane County Jail after prosecutors charged them with several felonies related to multiple hazmat investigations throughout Wisconsin.

1 week ago | lawandcrime.com | Jamie Frevele

A Texas woman reportedly had trouble on her mind when she allegedly stabbed two other women living in her apartment complex. Emily LaVelle, 29, is out on bail after she was arrested following an incident at the Tennyson Arms apartments in Waco, Texas. LaVelle, who lives at the complex, was reportedly involved in a previous altercation with a female neighbor, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.

1 week ago | lawandcrime.com | Jamie Frevele

The family of an Indiana girl who beat cancer sued the Illinois hospital that sent her home with a toxic amount of prescription pain medications, leading to her death. According to the lawsuit filed in Illinois' Cook County, Ava Wilson, 11, was in remission for b-lymphoblastic leukemia when she went with her mother to a follow-up appointment at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, on Oct. 29, 2020.