Five Pennsylvania children are now orphans after their parents died in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide, the Altoona Mirrors reports. Around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, police were dispatched to a home on Dartmouth Lane in Greenwood — about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh — and found 34-year-old Brooke Raia and 39-year-old Blase Raia dead. Investigators say …
A father and daughter found dead in South Carolina after going missing a week ago died of hypothermia. Calhoun County Corner Donnie Porth told WIS that autopsy results for 6-year-old Michelle Murph and her father, 42-year-old Jason Murph, were inconclusive, but he said weather conditions while the pair were missing and that they had no …
A missing South Carolina woman’s ex-boyfriend has now been charged with murder. A newly released warrant accuses Daniel Gabriel Harmon, 34, of killing Jamilla “Millie” Smith in early December, around the time that Smith called 911 to say that her ex-boyfriend had broken into her home and was chasing her down the road, WJBF reported. …
New York police shot and killed a man who was allegedly holding his mother at knifepoint in their Bronx apartment Saturday morning. The 30-year-old man, who has not yet been publicly identified, reportedly told his family he was going to kill them and then himself. A 19-year-old family member made the 911 call that brought …
A man was killed and a woman shot in the leg when someone opened fire at a Florida mall Saturday afternoon. The Ocala Police Department said the shooting took place inside Paddock Mall shortly after 3:30 p.m., the Ocala Star-Banner reported. The dead man was believed to have been the intended target of the gunman, …
A third party review said law enforcement behaved “reasonably” before Robert Card killed 18 people and himself in October.
A first-term North Dakota lawmaker went on a “verbally abusive, homophobic, racially abusive and discriminatory” tirade against police officers who pulled him over for driving under the influence earlier this month. State Rep. Nico Rios, a Republican, was returning home from a Christmas party on December 15 when he was stopped by Williston Police officers, …
A retired elementary school teacher from Long Island has been arrested on charges he sexually abused students decades ago. Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Dana Castaldo said that Thomas Bernagozzi, 75, faces counts of sexual conduct against a child and sodomy relating to two students, one in 1989 and one in 1997, Newsday reported. Suffolk …
A North Carolina mother has been charged with murder in the death of her 10-year-old son. Priyanka Tiwari, 33, was charged with murder and negligent child abuse inflicting serious injury, according to WTVD. Morrisville police were called to Tiwari’s home on Wednesday and found the child, who had been dead for some time and that …
A Las Vegas school district is facing legal action after students allegedly carved a swastika into the back of a Jewish boy with special needs, KTNV-TV reports. On Thursday, the mother of the 17-year-old victim filed a complaint against the Clark County School District with the Nevada Department of Special Education stemming from the incident. …
Efforts to tear down the Idaho house where four college students were murdered last year are inching forward, with parking restrictions now imposed on the street outside the residence, Fox News reports. Signs posted about the parking prohibition in Moscow, Idaho, come as the University of Idaho prepares to demolish the King Road home where …
Austin Lee Edwards poses as a 17-year-old boy to talk online with a 15-year-old girl. He then drives across the country to her Riverside home when she stops responding. Edwards parks in a neighbor’s driveway and goes inside the Winek home. Edwards kills the girl’s mother and grandparents, sets the home on fire, and leaves …
