A Texas couple has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of their 3-year-old daughter on Thursday. The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to the home in rural Donna, Texas, late Thursday afternoon. The toddler was taken to Edinburg Children’s Hospital but pronounced dead about an hour later. The sheriff’s …
A former bodyguard says the rap mogul sacrificed a bird for good luck before he went to court to hear the verdict in his trial for a 1999 nightclub shooting. Combs, now awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, was acquitted on all charges, including weapons possession and bribery, after the bird incident described by …
A judge sentenced a Kentucky mother who shot her young sons in the head last year to life terms in prison after emotional victim impact statements eviscerated her lawyer’s arguments that a “psychotic disorder” led to the murders. Tiffanie Lucas initially pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but changed her plea to guilty last …
A Michigan teenage missing since early this month was found dead on Friday after a 20-day search. The body of Cortez McConer Jr, 16, was found Friday afternoon “in a secluded and heavily wooded area near Rockford,” the Grand Rapids Police Department said. “This is not the outcome we had hoped for,” said Chief Eric …
The full autopsy report has been released for the second of two women brutally killed earlier this year in Oklahoma, their bodies buried in a freezer on a rural property near where they were killed. Veronica Butler was cut 30 times, with a a third of her injuries coming in form of defensive wounds, the …
A Seattle woman who admitted to police that she killed her 67-year-old father in a violent ice axe attack earlier this month pleaded not guilty Thursday in court. Corey Lizette Burke, 33, told police she argued with Timothy Burke on November 5 because he insisted on keeping the lights in their house on and then …
Although police have not said it, it appears a 19-year-old North Carolina man suffering mental health issues shot his mother and girlfriend to death earlier this week before killing himself. Search warrants indicate that police found Erica Holton, 54, and Aminah Guy, 19, dead in the living room of Holton’s home in Cary. Her son, …
A Texas woman was arrested earlier this month in California after she allegedly abandoned her toddler home alone while she went out of town to meet a man she met on a dating app. Reese Louise Myers, 25, was charged with abandoning or endangering a child and given a $25,000 bond. According to KWKT, Myers …
Police in Georgia are asking for help finding a 15-year-old girl who disappeared last week in Smyrna. Tatiana Morse was last seen on November 16 in a residential neigbborhood off Spring Road near Cumberland Mall, WAGA reported. She is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall and 110 pounds with brown eyes and medium-length red …
A Michigan woman arrested earlier this month and charged with assault with intent to murder apparently attacked her own daughter, throwing the girl headfirst down a flight of stairs, choking her, and slashing her with a knife. Jennifer Vargas was arrested on November 8 after Michigan State Police responded to a call at Vargas’s Traverse …
A non-custodial father in Ohio is refusing to return his toddler daughter to her custodial mother, and police are asking for help locating them. Devon Mason, 23, took 2-year-old Naomie Lynn Mason on November 4, and Bethel Police say the believe the little girl is in danger. Naomie is 2 feet tall and weighs 30 …
A Wisconsin man who faked his death in August and fled to eastern Europe, apparently to be with a woman, has been in contact with authorities but is so far refusing to come back to the United States. Ryan Borgwardt, 44, doesn’t yet face any charges for his elaborate and months-in-the-making scheme to flee his …
