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Domestic violence charges dismissed against Bobbi Kristina Brown's ex-boyfriend

The former boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown will not face prosecution in a domestic violence case , Seminole County prosecutors announced this week. Sanford police arrested Nicholas Gordon on June 10 at the Arbor Lakes Apartments . His live-in girlfriend in that case said she did not want Gordon prosecuted , said Todd Brown, spokesman for the 18th Judicial Circuit which covers Seminole and Brevard counties. Gordon dated Bobbi Kristina Brown , who is the daughter of singers Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, up until her death in 2015. Gordon was found responsible in a wrongful death lawsuit and an Atlanta judge ordered him to pay $36 million to her estate. Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, have said they’re investigating Gordon in her death but Gordon has not been charged. Seminole County prosecutors did not feel they could proceed to trial without the cooperation of Gordon’s girlfriend who also gave conflicting accounts of the incident, Todd Brown said. Gordon completed...

Graydon guilty in fatal Fayetteville stabbing

FAYETTEVILLE -- A man pleaded guilty Thursday to stabbing to death a man described as a good Samaritan. Cantrell Graydon stabbed David Allen , 25, at least 10 times early Oct . 24, 2015 at the Stadium Apartments, 1069 Olympic Place. Allen died later at a hospital. Graydon was arrested later on the day of the stabbing. He was charged with capital murder. The 33-year-old Fayetteville man stood before Washington County Circuit Judge Mark Lindsay in a nearly empty courtroom and pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors. [ EMAIL UPDATES : Get free breaking news updates and daily newsletters with top headlines delivered to your inbox] In exchange for his plea, Graydon was sentenced to 35 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction. He will have to serve about 24 years or 70 percent of his sentence, before becoming eligible for parole. He was given credit for 662 days of jail time served . First-degree murder is punishable by 10 to 40 years or life in prison. Capital murder is punis...