A North Carolina jury convicted a repeat sex offender on numerous charges on Wednesday, after he tied a little girl up to a tree in 2016, sexually assaulted her, and left her chained by her neck while he fled the scene. CBS reports that on Sept. 14, 2016, 47-year-old Douglas Nelson Edwards rode his moped down River …
A daycare owner arrived at a little girl’s home last week, when North Carolina police officers rescued her from a small closet. The distraught daycare owner described in detail the signs of abuse the child suffered, reportedly at the hands of her own father. FOX8 reports that Tracy Harrell, owner of the Randleman Enrichment Center, a daycare …
North Carolina police found a little girl on Tuesday, malnourished and locked in a small closet in her home, reportedly by the hands of her own father and her caretaker. FOX8 reports that authorities responded to a call for a welfare check at a home off of the 200 block of Back Street in Raleigh. The …
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A Charlotte, North Carolina, restaurant worker was caught on video appearing to prepare food on the ground outside the establishment. Footage recently provided to WJZY appears to show the at Tokyo Grill & Buffet preparing food amongst garbage cans and filth. The video was apparently taken in May. Tokyo Grill reportedly passed three health inspections this year, …
Johnston County, North Carolina, District Attorney Susan Doyle released dashcam footage on Friday that showed an officer-involved shooting that ended with a woman dead. CBS North Carolina reports that on July 8, officers responded to an SUV that crashed off of Interstate 40 in Newton Grove. When they arrived, officers noticed a white GMC Yukon …
North Carolina police arrested a teen in connection with the early Wednesday morning death of his father and another man. FOX 8 reports that Sean Tyler Simmons, 19, is facing two first-degree murder charges. At around 1:35 a.m. on Wednesday, officers arrived at 2406 Flora Vista Circle in Greensboro, where they found two men with gunshot wounds, …
The quadruple murder of a pair of elderly couples has rocked rural Halifax County, North Carolina. James Whitley (pictured left), 76, and his 67-year-old wife Peggy Whitley (pictured right) were visiting James Harris, 88, and wife Janice Harris at their home on Fishing Creek Road Monday night when they were killed. Halifax County sheriff Wes …
When a North Carolina mom of three noticed someone racked up $600 on her credit card, she took it upon herself to confront the person she felt responsible. Courtney Parks, 27, went through the drive thru at the Kannapolis Steak n’ Shake, where she paid for her meal with a credit card. The next day, she …
The body of a man believed to be kidnapped by a fugitive during a nationwide manhunt has been found. WYFF reports that Thomas Bryson disappeared on Wednesday in Henderson County, North Carolina, and authorities said that escaped fugitive Phillip Stroupe kidnapped him. Police arrested Stroupe on Thursday in McDowell County in Bryson’s truck, after leading them on a manhunt since …
North Carolina police have made an arrest after a woman allegedly came home to find her 7-year-old daughter covered in blood after a violent sexual assault, according to the Independent. The woman immediately had a suspect in mind for the alleged brutality, leading investigators to 28-year-old Brentley Jason Byers, a man her daughter refers to …
Allison Cope, the 24-year-old airport employee who disappeared while on break from her job at Starbucks, has been found, alive, at a Virginia Beach hospital, according to WCNT. The Raleigh-Durham Airport (RDU) Authority Police Department has issued a statement on the good news. “Late last night [July 1], the Airport Authority Police Department was notified …
