Year: 2025

Missing
January 23, 2025

BOLO: Mother Pleads for Answers Following 15-Year-Old’s Disappearance

A Minnesota mother is desperately calling for the safe return of her daughter, who has been missing for almost two weeks. On January 22, Shannon Kamal discovered her daughter Ariana Counts‘ disappearance through a social media post, after not seing her in eight years. “I was scrolling on missing peoples’ posts, and I saw one …

Missing
January 23, 2025

Cops Sift Through Ashes Amid Search for Toddler Missing Since September

The search continues for a 1-year-old Alabama boy — now presumed dead — following his disappearance in September. Kahleb Collins was reported missing on December 9, a day after his father and 2-year-old sister were killed in a car wreck. WABM reported that investigators extensively searched the family’s property in Fayette County, and were spotted …

Murder
January 23, 2025

Nevada Father Who Killed Newborn by Throwing Her 22 Feet from Balcony Learns Fate

A Nevada man will serve life in prison for throwing his daughter from a balcony and setting his apartment ablaze. In October 2024, a jury found Clarence Martin Jr., 37, guilty of killing his 2-month-old daughter, London, by throwing her from the second-floor balcony of their apartment. Martin’s defense claimed he was in the midst …

Assault
January 23, 2025

Kentucky Shooter Surrenders After Wounding Wendy’s Employee Over Cold Fries

A Kentucky man wanted for shooting a Wendy’s employee because his fries weren’t hot enough turned himself in last week to face two counts of assault. Monjah D. James-Wooten was wanted for the January 6 incident, in which the Wendy’s employee fired back, the Louisiville Metro Police Department said. James Wooten surrendered on January 17 …

Murder
January 23, 2025

Teen Arrested at Chicago Bus Station for North Carolina Walmart Murder

A teenager sought in the shooting death of a woman waiting in line at a bank inside a North Carolina Walmart last month has been captured in Chicago. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said that 17-year-old Ezekiel Burden was found Tuyesday at a Greyhound bus staion by the US Marshals Service acting on …

Murder-Suicide
January 23, 2025

NC Man Leaves Facebook Message Admitting to Murder-Suicide of Wife, Himself

A North Carolina man last week shot his wife to death before turning the gun on himself — and left a message on Facebook, apparently between the two shootings, admitting what he’d done. The Fuquay-Varina Police Department said it responded to a call about gunshots just after 6 p.m. on Saturday and found Cahtleen Lesniak, …

AMBER Alert
January 23, 2025

BOLO: AMBER Alert Issued for 3-Year-Old Texas Boy

An AMBER Alert was issued Wednesday for a 3-year-old Bexar County, Texas,  boy. According to police, Chandler Baker was last seen around noon in the 7900 block of Midnight Stage, in Northwest Bexar County. Chandler stands 3 feet tall and has brown hair and brown eyes, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Police …

Lawsuit
January 22, 2025

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Files Multimillion Dollar Lawsuit Against Grand Jury Witness

Jailed rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a $50 million lawsuit against NewsNation parent company Nexstar and a witness who was subpoenaed to a federal grand jury considering additional charges against him. Combs has been charged with racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution in federal court and denied bail multiple times. …

child endangerment
January 22, 2025

Texas Parents Leave Children Alone, Cold and Hungry, for Hours

A pair of Texas parents were arrested Tuesday after police say they left their three young children — one of them just a month old — home alone for hours with no food and little heat. The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office didn’t say why they responded to the home of Camila Alvarado, 29, and Julio …

Shooting
January 22, 2025

4-Year-Old Girl Killed by Stray Bullet in Police Shootout

A 4-year-old Ohio girl was killed and.a police officer critically wounded in a shootout between police officers and a suicidal man they were called to check on. Officers found the man walking down a street shortly after 2 p.m. and tried to talk with him, but he opened fire on them “almost immediately,” St. Clair …

Manslaughter
January 22, 2025

Alabama Man Arrested 2 1/2 Months After Hitting, Killing 10-Year-Old Girl Riding Scooter

An Alabama man was arrested this week on a manslaughter charge in the death of a 10-year-old girl he struck with his vehicle while she was riding her scooter. Ember Poe died eight days after the November 5, 2024, incident at Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham, AL.com reported. John David Winton, 45, was arrested on …