A jury in Lee County, Florida, on Wednesday returned a verdict of guilty against Mark Sievers, charged with first degree murder in the death of his wife, beloved physician Dr Teresa Sievers. The jury began deliberations shortly after 2 p.m. and announced they’d reached a verdict about 4 hours later, Naples News reported. The penalty …
A Colorado teen who told investigators he planned a deadly shooting at school because he was taunted by classmates over his gender identity, will stand trial as an adult, a judge in Castle Rock ruled Wednesday. Alec McKinney, who was born female but identifies as male, and Devon Erickson, 19, are accused in the May …
The key suspects in the deaths of a Florida couple found dead in a burned out van in Buffalo, New York — while their son was found sleeping on a stranger’s porch a mile away — have been in federal custody for weeks, an assistant US Attorney said, according to court transcripts obtained by WIVB. …
California police arrested a 47-year-old mother on Monday, charging her with child endangerment for tying her toddler son’s hands and putting a plastic bag over his head before their home caught fire Sunday evening, the Ventura County Star reported. Santa Paula police said the cause of the fire was still under investigation, and that the …
Police shot a 17-year-old boy inside a Wisconsin high school classroom on Monday when the boy refused to put down a gun he’d brought to school and pointed at officers. Waukesha Police Chief Russell Jack said a student at Waukesha South High School reported the student with a gun, and a school resource officer initially …
A man living in a tiny town on Maine’s border with Canada died on Thanksgiving evening after falling victim to one of his own booby-traps. Police said Ronald Cyr, 65, called 911 himself to report that he had been shot. The Van Buren Police Department, the Van Buren Ambulance Service, and the US Border Police …
Two young boys and two adults are dead in south Minneapolis, the result of an apparent murder-suicide. Police said they found the two boys in the snow-covered front yard Sunday morning. The body of one adult was taken from the house in the afternoon, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, and a police robot found the second …
Two young boys are dead and an apparent hostage situation ongoing in Minneapolis, police said, where a SWAT team has surrounded a house in the southern part of the city. Police said they found the two boys in the snow-covered front yard and that the suspect fled into the home. “All indications are that the …
Daytona Beach, Florida, police are searching for two men who allegedly zip-tied a 22-year-old woman to a car steering wheel, doused her and the vehicle with rubbing alcohol, and set it alight. Gibbon Agledor, 37, and another man identified only as Eric in police documents reportedly drove the woman to a location behind a restaurant …
Authorities in Arkansas are looking for a Kansas woman who hasn’t been home since November 16 and was last heard from in the Searcy, Arkansas, area on November 21. Newton County deputies said Sherry Lynn Babcock’s car was found abandoned in Ponca, about 140 miles away, on November 22, unlocked and with her purse and …
A Texas woman and her boyfriend have been arrested over an incident in March when the man put hera 7-year-old son in a scalding shower because of a bad grad in school. John Terrell, 28, has been charged with abuse for putting the boy in the hot shower, which caused burns over 26 percent of …
A bread delivery man is an honorary sheriff’s deputy in Clayton County, Georgia, after he helped stop an armed robbery at a fast food restaurant. Joseph Chilton arrived at the Hardee’s in Ellenwood at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning as employees were running out of the restaurant’s back door, saying they were being robbed, 11 …
