A Florida mom let her 6-year-old son go trick-or-treating alone on Halloween and is now facing a criminal charge, WESH-TV reports. Police arrested Jessica Anne King on a charge of child neglect stemming from the incident, which the 38-year-old said happened only because she was ill. King and the boy live in Maitland, Florida, a …
LAKE HALLIE, Wis. (AP) — A pickup truck lurched off a road in western Wisconsin Saturday and hit a group of Girl Scouts picking up trash in a ditch, leaving three girls and one adult dead and critically injuring a fourth girl, police said. Sgt. Daniel Sokup of the Lake Hallie Police Department said the …
A 15-year-old Florida high school student has been arrested for allegedly strangling his mom and burying her body under a church fire pit following a conflict over a bad grade on his report card. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports Gregory Logan Ramos, 15, of DeBary faces a murder charge in Friday’s death of his mother …
NEW YORK (AP) — Alec Baldwin is denying that he punched anyone over a parking spot and says an assault allegation is being reported “for the purposes of clickbait entertainment.” The actor was arrested Friday and charged with assault and harassment after allegedly hitting another man in the face during a dispute over a parking …
Authorities in North Carolina say a woman who reportedly claimed she was overwhelmed with being a single mom has been accused of allegedly abandoning her two young children along a roadway and then speeding away. According to ABC11, 38-year-old Jennifer Westfall of Fuquay-Varina has been charged with two counts of misdemeanor child abuse stemming from the October 2 …
The Saudi Arabian sisters whose bodies were found taped together in the Hudson River in late October stayed in nice hotels, ordered room service and went shopping just prior to their deaths, the New York Post reports. The new details come as investigators seek to understand how and why the sisters died, although suicide appears …
New details emerged in connection with a North Carolina baby who died after her family’s pit bull mix attacked her. Authorities released the 911 call made by the little girl’s mother, who apparently tried slit the dog’s neck and hit him over the head while trying to get him release her daughter at their Rocky …
An Illinois sex offender is accused of murdering a young mother whose burned remains were discovered in a barrel, WLS-TV reports. Prosecutors on Friday charged 42-year-old Peter Zabala with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the death of 25-year-old Ashley Tucker. Zabala also faces two counts of concealing a homicide. Authorities reportedly found …
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Authorities in Alabama say a child therapist fatally shot the mother of one of his young patients before turning the gun on himself this week. According to AL.com, 43-year-old Jonathan Neil Coffman and 36-year-old Sunshine Price Pauly were found dead outside of the woman’s residence in Monrovia. The victim reportedly contacted authorities to report an …
Authorities say a teacher in Washington state fatally shot a romantic partner — also an educator in the same district — before turning the gun on himself in a suspected murder-suicide this week. According to Fox News, 37-year-old Dustin Altshuler and 35-year-old Laura Cole were found dead in their Kennewick home. Police initially responded to …
Police in Alabama said a 3-year-old boy drowned in a bathtub this week as his father smoked a cigarette outside. Police responded to a home in Daphne at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, where they discovered the unresponsive toddler and reportedly learned that his father had left him unattended in the bathtub. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office claimed the …
