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She added that the plea offer “was made in consultation with the victim,” who was not named. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. The alleged victim was a 14-year-old family member of the former deputy, his attorney confirms. Ballin tells PEOPLE that Beck “maintained his innocence but was presented with an opportunity to get this behind him with a guarantee of not going to jail and not being on the sex offender registry,” and so Beck accepted the plea deal, knowing that “a trial had an uncertain result....

Roger Stone, a provocative conservative operative and former adviser to PresidentDonald Trump, on Friday inserted himself between Trump and the late First LadyBarbara Bush. Mrs. Bush,who died last Aprilat 92, has been making headlines for a candid new biography which revealedhow much she disliked the presidentbefore she passed. Among other details, according to author Susan Page, she kept a clock near her bed counting down to the end of Trump’s term and she voted for a write-in candidate in the 2016 election, despite being the matriarch of the Republican Party’s most famous political family....

Mark Meadows.Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Donald Trump’s former chief of staff — who helped spread the former president’s baseless fears of voter fraud in the most recent presidential election — is now facing questionsafterThe New Yorkerreported this weekthat he listed a mobile home in rural North Carolina as the residence on his own voter registration. According to themagazine, however, the couple did not own the home and were, at the time, living in Virginia while Meadows worked at the White House....

Sasha Krause and Mark Gooch.Photo: San Juan County Sheriff’s Office; Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office/AP/Shutterstock An Air Force airman has been found guilty in the 2020abduction and murder of a Mennonite Sunday school teacher, whose body was found in a wooded area of Arizona, hundreds of miles away from her home in New Mexico. Krause was reported missing on Jan. 18 from the Mennonite Community in Farmington, N.M. She mysteriouslyvanished after running an errandat the Farmington Mennonite Church where she was preparing to teach Sunday school, according toAZFamily....

Sasha Krause.Photo: San Juan County Sheriff’s Office An Arizona man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of kidnapping and killing a Mennonite woman. Mark Gooch was sentenced to life for murder and an additional five years for the kidnapping charge, which will run consecutively,reported 12NEWS. He was also ordered to pay restitution. During the sentencing hearing, Coconino County Superior Court Judge Cathleen Nichols said it was “the most senseless case” she presided over, the station reported....

Donald Trump‘s former White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, said this week that his plans to make the president exercise more “never took off” but that officials did encourage healthier eating in Trump’s diet. “We were making the ice cream less accessible,” Jackson toldThe New York Timesin a story published Monday. “We were putting cauliflower into the mashed potatoes.” Trump has made headlines for hislove of fast foodsince he began campaigning for president in 2015....

Shealah Craighead (left), Donald Trump.Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP Images; Scott Olson/Getty Instead, the former president released his own book — and,The New York Timesreportedthis week, Craighead scuttled hers. According to theTimesstory published Thursday, former associates of Trump said that while he initially agreed to help promote and write the foreword for Craighead’s book — in exchange for a cut of her advance payment — he ultimately decided to move forward with his own book, which also featured her photos....

Jeff Roberson/AP/REX/Shutterstock. The ex-wife of former Missouri Gov.Eric Greitens, who is now a leading Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, accused her ex-husband of “unstable and coercive behavior” that included “physical violence” toward their two children, ages 7 and 5, in an affidavit filed Monday in an ongoing child custody dispute. In describing an incident in April 2018, before the couple divorced, Ms. Greitens alleges her husband “knocked me down and confiscated my cell phone, wallet, and keys so that I was unable to call for help or extricate myself and our children from our home at Innsbrook, Missouri....

Shanna Gardner-Fernandez, Jared Bridegan.Photo:Derek Shook / BACKGRID; Jacksonville Beach Police Department Derek Shook / BACKGRID; Jacksonville Beach Police Department “We will be filing a notice of our intent to seek the death penalty,” Nelson said. Bridegan was shot multiple times at close range on Feb. 16, 2022 after he stepped out of his black Volkswagen Atlas to remove a discarded tire lying in the middle of a Jacksonville Beach road....

The ex-wife of former NBA playerLorenzen Wright, who was fatally shot in 2010, pleaded guilty Thursday in Tennessee to facilitation to first-degree murder. She also pleaded guilty to facilitation to commit attempted first-degree murder, which carries an eight year sentence. She will be credited with nearly 20 months time served. According to prosecutors, the charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder was dropped. After the guilty plea, Lorenzen’s mother, Deborah Marion, said she has thought of her grandchildren during the ordeal, reports theCommercial Appealof Memphis....

Photo: Mike Marsland/WireImage Court documents filed in Los Angeles County reveal a series of allegations of abuse on both sides, primarily from after the former couple’s marriage ended. Stephanie also claims her ex-husband physically abused the family dog on at least two occasions, according to The Blast. In one of those instances, she alleges that Jim left the dog under a metal bucket outside in 100-degree heat for an extended period of time....

01of 06KIM KARDASHIAN WEST’S TEXTURED PONYTAILHairstylistChris Appletongave the star, who washonored with the first-ever CFDA Influencer Award, a sky-high ponytail. First, he enhanced her natural texture withColor Wow’s Banned Correct & Perfect Mousse, then he created loose, defined waves with theGHD Curve Classic Curl Iron. A touch of theColor Wow Pop & Lock Gloss Treatmentfrom Kim’s mid-lengths to ends gave her hair a healthy shine. 01of 06 KIM KARDASHIAN WEST’S TEXTURED PONYTAIL HairstylistChris Appletongave the star, who washonored with the first-ever CFDA Influencer Award, a sky-high ponytail....

John Meehan.Photo: California Department of Corrections John Meehanseemed like the perfect man. The 55-year-old was known as an anesthesiologist who spent a year in Iraq with Doctors Without Borders. Handsome and seemingly successful, he owned multiple homes. So when divorced Newport Beach, California, interior designer Debra Newell met him online in 2014, she was immediately impressed. Despite some initial red flags and her daughters’ dislike for him, she fell in love and after two months married him in Las Vegas....