A woman and three children are dead in rural southwest Virginia after an apparent murder-suicide, the Smyth County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies were called to the home early Friday morning and found a 27-year-old woman and two children — ages 3 and 10 — dead at the scene and a 6-year-old critical wounded. The 6-year-old …
A kidnapping victim is recovering from severe injuries she incurred when she jumped out of the trunk of her kidnappers’ vehicle as it sped down a US highway in North Carolina. Kristen Robinson, 38, told the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office that three people came into her room at the Budget Inn in Madison on Thursday …
Police in Wisconsin have arrested a 15-year-old boy for a shooting at a mall that wounded eight people on Friday, Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber said at a news conference on Sunday. The teen left the mall as shoppers and employees evacuated, Weber said. He was arrested Saturday night when police pulled over his vehicle, …
An 11-year-old Washington state boy is dead, stabbed to death by an older brother twice his age, police in Renton say. Officers were called to a street corner in the city’s Highlands neighborhood just after noon, the Seattle Times reported, where they found the boy wounded, on the sidewalk. The boy was rushed to Harborview …
Two people are dead and two more hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a 23-year-old man opened fire at a Sonic Drive-in in Bellevue, Nebraska, Saturday night. Roberto Carlos Silva of Omaha has been charged with two counts of first degree murder and one count first degree arson, the latter charge for a fire in a …
A Michigan man is behind bars after police say a DNA sample connected him to the 2002 kidnapping and sexual assault of a 4-year-old child. MLive reports that Richard Samuel Adams, 44, was arrested last week and charged with criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping. Adams provided a DNA sample in connection with an unrelated incident, …
