A wrong-way driver slammed head-on into a van in northern Illinois early Sunday morning, causing a fiery collision that killed seven people, including five children. Illinois State Police said Jennifer Fernandez, 22, was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 in McHenry County shortly after 2 a.m. when her Acura TSX hit a …
A Mississippi woman was arrested last week after she intentionally ran over her own 6-year-old child with her car. A local hospital called Hattiesburg Police when the child was brought in for treatment at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, WDAM reported. The child’s father also incurred minor injuries in the incident, which police deemed a …
New York police are looking for a robbery crew using Facebook to lure men to hotels, where they’re robbed at gunpoint. Investigators say one member of the crew — a 20-something year old woman — has lured at least five men into the trap this month, the New York Post reported. “Once both [the woman …
An angry Wisconsin man fired indiscriminately a home this week, striking his 5-year-old niece in the chest and damaging her spine. At John Jackson’s bond hearing on Saturday, prosecutors said Ke’yari Redding may never walk again. The little girl’s mother, Asia Jackson, told WITI that her daughter is making progress although she remains in critical …
Despite a history of violence against women, Harvey — a transgender woman — was released from prison after a parole board agreed that she’d met the criteria for release. She promised never to offend again, but now she’s charged with brutally killing Susan Leyden, 68.
Tubing on Wisconsin’s Apple River remained shut down Sunday as detectives investigated a 52-year-old man’s fatal stabbing spree on Saturday. A 17-year-old boy was killed in the attack and four other people — three men and a woman, all in their 20s — were seriously injured. St Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson said that formal …
A former Iowa county jail employee has been charged with sexual misconduct after an Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation probe into the matter. KCRG said that the agency launched its investigation when a county employee complained of possible sexual misconduct and completed it in March. The state attorney general took over at that point, reviewing …
Celebrity reporters got a windfall over the weekend when thousands of pages of documents from the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation trial were unsealed.
A Florida woman will spend the rest of her life behind bars for hiring hitmen to kill a prominent law professor, WCTV reports. On Friday, a judge in Tallahassee sentenced 37-year-old Katherine D. Magbanua to life in prison in connection with the July 2014 murder of Daniel Markel. Authorities alleged that Magbanua arranged the hit …
Loved ones are pleading for the public’s help to locate a Florida woman who has been missing for more than three weeks and was allegedly acting unusual before she vanished, WINK-TV reports. Erica Johnson was last seen July 8 in Fort Myers boarding a direct Greyhound bus to Tampa. Security cameras recorded her carrying a …
Loved ones of a Colorado teen who died mysteriously last month paid tribute to her this weekend, despite few public details about what happened to her, KKTV reports. On June 27, police found 13-year-old Hailey Perkins dead inside her home in Pueblo West, Colorado, according to the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper. Authorities determined she died by …
A 62-year-old Missouri man was charged with attempted murder Friday for allegedly using a high-powered rifle to shoot a crop duster flying near his property. In addition to attempted murder, Donald V. Bates has been charged with felony property damage, unlawful weapons use, assault, and armed critical action. He is being held without bond in …
