A Missouri toddler was shot to death Friday afternoon while handling a gun in an Independence home. Police had been looking for a person of interest in the incident who reportedly fled from the home after the shooting. That person was taken into custody in a neighboring state and will be extradited to Jackson County …
An Arizona man is dead after he chased his girlfriend along an interstate highway, rear-ended her vehicle several times, then spun out and struck another vehicle head-on. The crash took place at about 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, the state Department of Public Safety said, according to KSAZ. The boyfriend, driving a pickup truck, was pronounced …
“Disturbing texts,” animal abuse couldn’t cut through parents “extramarital affairs, financial issues and substance abuse,” prosecutor says in court filing.
An armed man was arrested Sunday morning after he broke into the grounds of Windsor Castle, where Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was spending Christmas with her family. Thames Valley Police Superintendent Rebecca Mears said the 19-year-old man, from Southampton in southern England, did not enter any buildings on the castle complex and that an alarm …
An arrest warrant has been issued for the long-time physician of a Christian boarding school in southwest Missouri, accusing him of sex crimes against children. A Greene County judge signed an arrest warrant for David Earl Smock, 57, on Thursday. The warrant accuses him of second-degree statutory sodomy, third-degree child molestation of a child under …
A Florida man is in jail on federal charges after he allegedly tried to arrange the murder of his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. Ryan Hadeed, 43, sent a letter in September to someone he thought could handle the job he had in mind, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. “I …
A confession and tip last month from a death row inmate just before his execution led investigators to the body of Felicia Cox, the convicted man’s sister-in-law. David Neal Cox was put to death in Mississippi on November 17 after he halted all appeals of his conviction for the murder of his wife, Kim Kirk …
Miami police on Thursday said they had arrested a real estate agent they believe has been hunting homeless people. Interim Miami Police Chief Manuel Morales said that Willy Suarez Maceo, 25, will be charged with murder and attempted murder in a pair of shootings Tuesday night and that detectives also believe he is connected with …
A fourth woman has accused actor Chris Noth of sexual assault. Singer Lisa Gentile says she had known Noth, who was fired this week from the CBS series “The Equalizer,” for several years when he offered her a ride home from a New York restaurant where several friends had met up in 2002. “When we …
Five teenagers have been arrested after they allegedly carjacked a US Congresswoman from Pennsylvania at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon and took off with her vehicle. Mary Gay Scanlon, who represents Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District in Congress — which includes part of south Philadelphia — was not hurt in the incident, WPVI reported. Scanlon, 62, said she …
An Indiana woman was found shot to death on the floor of her bedroom Tuesday night. Anderson Police said they were called to 37-year-old Andrea Aguirre’s home at about 7:30 p.m. by her estranged husband, who said he had gone to check on her and their children when she didn’t respond to his attempts to …
Seven members of a Minnesota family found dead in their home over the weekend died of carbon monoxide poisoning, investigators said. The Moorhead Police Department announced Wednesday that the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office had found lethal levels of carbon monoxide in the victims, who included three children. A relative found the bodies Saturday afternoon …
