Cleveland police issued an Amber Alert for 5-year-old Zanaya Thomas who was apparently kidnapped from her home Sunday evening. Police said the little girl is believed to be with James Hardges, 24. The mother told police Hardges came to the home with several people, one of whom had a gun, and took Zanaya. They may be headed to Pennsylvania.
The brother of an Atlanta Police officer shot in the face while responding to a call last week said the family is grateful for the support from the community. Phuc Thai told Fox 5 Atlanta that his younger brother, Khuong Thai — who was hit multiple times in addition to the shot to the face …
Cincinnati police are searching for a woman who has been missing for weeks after checking out of a recovery center. Lauren Breitbart, 28, hasn’t been seen since or heard from by her family since June 19. News 9 reports that Breitbart told her family she left a recovery center in Kentucky and was in Cinncinatti, …
Police in the Pacific Northwest are looking for an 83-year-old Oregon woman who left her home Saturday morning driving her white Infiniti EX3 and hasn’t returned. Prineville police said that Betty Counts may have been in Washington or Idaho when she was last heard from on Sunday and also may have been lost.
An 11-year-old Iowa boy died Sunday from injuries he suffered a day earlier when a popular boat ride at an amusement park malfunction just a day after it passed a state inspection and opened for the first time this season. Michael Jaramillo and three other people, including at least one other minor, were injured when …
A former Colorado assistant principal was found dead Saturday, two days after his arrest on dozens of charges that he sexually abused a student while he was teaching in Arkansas. Randall Mealer, 56, was charged with 50 counts of first degree sexual assault when he was arrested in Boone County, Arkansas, on Thursday, KRDO reported. …
The mother in a prominent South Carolina family who was fatally shot with her son last month may have been having marital troubles at the time of the double murder. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her 22-year-old son Paul Murdaugh were found shot to death on June 7 at the family’s hunting …
An ex-teacher in Alabama who was arrested in 2016 for having sex with two teen students received a 10-year sentence on Thursday. The Decatur Daily reported that Carrie Witt’s sentence will entail her serving 18 months in the Department of Corrections and 18 months in a community corrections program before she completes the remainder of …
A New Mexico man was charged with murder on Friday, days after a body discovered in Nevada in February was formally identified as his girlfriend, Cecelia Finona, who vanished in May 2019. Farmington, New Mexico, police announced in a statement that they charged Jerry Jay with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and tampering with evidence. Jay …
Teen Kelsey Smith was taken from the parking lot of a Target store and never seen alive again. The surveillance video showed Smith in the store; a man appeared in every aisle she did. Smith called her mother from the store, but hours later, her car was found abandoned outside of a Macy’s store across the …
A Nebraska woman convicted of killing her Tinder app date, Sydney Loofe, begged a panel of three judges to spare her from the death penalty. Bailey Boswell, 27, who has a 5-year-old daughter, teared up during a sentencing hearing last week in a Dawson County courtroom. Boswell was convicted last year in connection with Loofe’s …
Late last month, a 12-year-old Louisiana boy reportedly shot and killed a home intruder who held his mother at gunpoint and threatened her. The reported incident unfolded on June 30 at a residence in East Feliciana Parish. Police said Brad Leblanc, 32, (not pictured) forced a female resident into her home at gunpoint, prompting a …
