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Former NFL star Kellen Winslow Jr.,already accused of kidnap and rape, was jailed Monday after being slapped with new allegations of lewd conduct while out on bail and awaiting trial on the earlier charges. The charges — all misdemeanors — stem fromtwo incidents involving a 77-year-old womanat a gym in Carlsbad, California, said San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Dan Owens, according to theSan Diego Union-Tribune. On Feb. 13, Winslow Jr....

Photo: Art Foxall/UPI/Shutterstock Former NFL running backPeyton Hillisopened up about saving his son and niece from a rip current in January. In an exclusive interview with Michael Strahan forGood Morning America,Hillis, 37, said, “It is 100% a miracle that somebody didn’t die” during the incident. Hillis recalled wanting to take the kids to the beach because they were “all going crazy” with energy on the morning of Jan. 4. “The night before, it was a bad storm, but you know, I didn’t really pay too much attention to it and when I woke up the next morning it was windy, but it was beautiful," he said on the morning show....

Photo: Ernesto Di Stefano Photography/Getty Images Peyton Hillisis giving a health update for the first time after he nearly drowned last month while saving his kids. The former NFL player, who spent two weeks in the hospital, said he should make a full recovery. “I left the hospital with no worries and concerns and should make a 100% recovery,“Hillis, 37, wrote Tuesday in a statement on his Twitter page. “I’m a very lucky and blessed man....

Photo: John Gibbins/AP In a surprise move Monday, former NFL Player Kellen Winslow, Jr. agreed to plead guilty to raping a teen in 2003 and to the reduced charge of sexual battery of a 54-year-old to avoid the possibility of life in prison. Looking uncomfortable as he sat in San Diego County Superior Court Monday, the 36-year-old hadasked the judge for extra time to make his decision, the Associated Press and NBC News report....

Photo: courtesy Al Chesley Former NFL standout Al Chesley was 13 when he says a neighborhood police officer began to sexually assault him. The film has opened a wider conversation. “For too long the topics of male sexual assault and abuse have been considered socially taboo,” says Matthew Ennis, president of theadvocacy and support nonprofit 1in6, named for the estimated percentage of men who experience sexual violence in their lifetime, according to the Centers for Disease Control....

Photo: Patrick Carns/AP A former Penn State University fraternity brother was sentenced Tuesday to three months of house arrest for his role inthe 2017 hazing death of 19-year-old pledge Timothy Piazza, PEOPLE confirms. In June, Ryan Burke, 21, pleaded guilty to four counts of hazing and five counts related to unlawful acts involving liquor. Burke is the first defendant to have his case resolved.Another 25 fraternity membershave cases pending before the court....

Gigi Jordan, the millionaire mom who murdered her son in a Manhattan hotel room in 2010, was found dead Friday morning in a Brooklyn home that she was renting. She was 62. Jordan, a pharma executive, had admitted to giving her 8-year-old son, Jude, a lethal dose of medications with a syringe in a hotel room in 2010. She then took multiple medications herself and emailed a relative who alerted authorities....

TheformerPlayboycenterfold who fell to her deathfrom a New York City hotel on Friday along with her 7-year-old son pushed the boy from the building first before leaping herself, police confirm to PEOPLE. Officials determined the deaths of Stephanie Adams and her young son, Vincent, to be a murder-suicide after the pair fell from the 25th floor of the Gotham Hotel in Manhattan around 8:15 a.m. local time. Police found their bodies on the second-floor landing of the hotel’s courtyard....

Photo: Facebook Police in a Philadelphia suburb are investigating the killing of Christina Carlin-Kraft, a former Playboy model who was found strangled in her apartment Wednesday night,local outlet WTXF reports. Lower Merion authorities say they found the body of the 36 year-old in her bedroom at 9:15 pm on Wednesday during a welfare check following a call about a potential robbery in her Ardmore condominium on Saturday. It was not immediately clear of the possible robbery is linked to Carlin-Kraft’s death....

Photo: Facebook A Philadelphia man has been arrested for first-degree murderin the slaying of former Playboy model Christina Carlin-Kraft,who was found strangled in her apartment last week, PEOPLE confirms. Kraft was last seen alive early on Aug. 22 with Jonathan Wesley Harris, her suspected killer, according to a statement from the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office. Security camera footage recorded them walking together. Carlin-Kraft had gone to meet Harris and then they both went back to her apartment in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, prosecutors said....

Former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer Kim Potter.Photo: Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune via Getty Images A criminal charge announced Wednesday alleges that a veteran police officer committed manslaughter when she fatally shotDaunte Wright, an unarmed Black 20-year-old man, amidst a traffic stop in a suburb of Minneapolis on Sunday. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehensionconfirmed Potter’s arrestWednesday on a charge of second-degree manslaughter. Potter, 48, a white 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center police force, and Chief Tim Gannon bothresigned from their positionsTuesday, one day after Gannon said it appeared to him that Wright’s shooting was “accidental,” based on officer-worn body camera footage of the incident....

Photo: GDA via AP The former President of Peru died on Wednesday after shooting himself as police closed in to arrest him on corruption charges. According to multiple news outlets, includingReuters, former president Alan García died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a hospital in the capital city of Lima. He was 69. García served as president of the South American country for two nonconsecutive terms — from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011....

Photo: St. Michael School/ Parish On the night of Dec. 4, three people affiliated with a Chicago-area church and its accompanying school attended a church Christmas party. Before the night was over, all three of their lives would dramatically change. Margaret “Rone” Leja, 61, a technology teacher at St. Michael School in Orland Park, would be killed. Her friend, fellow St. Michael teacher Liz Kosteck, 54, would be injured. And a retired priest from St....