Remains possibly belonging to missing Alabama teen Aniah Blanchard have been found following a month-long search that has involved local, state, and federal authorities, according to multiple reports. District Attorney Brando Hughes told WRBL on Monday that “human remains have been found and we have good reason to suspect they are that of” Blanchard, 19. …
Marquis Jefferson, father a 28-year-old Texas woman who was shot and killed in her own home by a Fort Worth police officer last month, has died, sources have told CBS DFW. The cause of his death was not immediately known. Atatiana Jefferson was playing video games in her home with her 8-year-old nephew on October …
McDonald’s fired its CEO over a consensual relationship with an employee, the burger chain announced on Sunday, according to the Financial Times. In a statement, the company said that Steve Easterbrook, who has been chief executive since 2015, “violated company policy and demonstrated poor judgment” regarding the relationship, which is prohibited by company policy. Easterbrook, …
A 36-year-old woman was found dead Wednesday with an 8-foot python wrapped around her neck, lying of the floor of a house owned by by a county sheriff with 140 snakes inside, the Lafayette Journal & Courier reported. Twenty of the snakes belonged to Laura Hurst, the woman who was found dead, Indiana State Police …
Crews remained in rescue mode Sunday at the collapsed construction site of the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel, officials told NOLA.com, but the site is dangerously unstable, and one of the two missing workers has now been confirmed dead. New Orleans Fire Department Superintendent Tim McConnell said the two dead workers and the missing worker …
Recently-released court documents have revealed constant contact between Child Protective Services and the biological parents of Maleah Davis, the 4-year-old Texas girl who remains missing after her mother’s boyfriend claimed she was abducted during a robbery. KPRC has acquired documents dating back to August 2018, when Davis and her 7-year-old brother were removed from the …
A 12-year-old Oregon boy was taken into custody early Thursday, days after an elderly woman reportedly was found dead in her home. The Oregonian reported that the tween, who wasn’t publicly identified due to his age, is being held at the Serbu Juvenile Justice Center on suspicion of murder and first-degree burglary in connection with …
The City of Dallas recently released a heavily-redacted incident report of ex-officer Amber Guyger’s fatal shooting of her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean. KDFW made the open records request and noted that the provided document was “extremely small” compared to documents of its kind. They reported that incident reports are usually detailed but, in this case, …
On Friday, a Philadelphia judge reinstated appeal rights to Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther who has been imprisoned since 1982 for fatally shooting an officer. According to WHYY, Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Leon Tucker agreed with Abu-Jamal’s lawyers that Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille shouldn’t have presided over the 64-year-old’s multiple appeals. Castille was a …
A pregnant Indiana teen was laid to rest Monday, more than a week after the father of her unborn child allegedly stabbed her to death and dumped her body in a dumpster. WNDU reported that Briana Rouhselang’s funeral took place Monday at New Life Baptist Church in Osceola. The family of Rouhselang, 17, asked the media not …
A 16-year-old Indiana boy pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and feticide charges despite allegedly admitting to stabbing his ex-cheerleader girlfriend to death and dumping her body in a dumpster. Charged as an adult, NBC News reported that Aaron Trejo entered his pleas during his arraignment and was ordered to be held without bail. The Mishawaka High School …
Authorities announced Friday that Ventura County police Sergeant Ron Helus, who was counted among the 12 victims of the Thousand Oaks mass shooting, died as a result of friendly fire. Though suspect Ian David Long, 28, struck Helus five times, the county medical examiner said it’s not only possible that he would’ve survived those injuries …
