An armed suspect claiming to have bombs has reportedly taken a rabbi and at least three others hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. A SWAT team had descended around the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue northeast of Fort Worth around 2 p.m. local time. No injuries have been reported thus far, …
“Something needs to change because it’s getting worse”
A mother is accused of murdering her three young children and attempting to take her own life in a small California farming community, KMPH-TV reports. Police say 31-year-old Patricia Ortiz killed her 8-year-old daughter Anna Ortiz Lara and the girl’s two younger siblings, 5-year-old Matteo Ortiz Lara and 3-year-old Alexa Ortiz Lara. Ortiz’s husband, who …
The actor Alec Baldwin has surrendered his phone to authorities investigating the deadly shooting last year on the set of the film “Rust,” CNN reports. New Mexico police had secured a warrant for the phone on December 16 and notified Baldwin’s lawyer of the warrant. However, Baldwin did not turn the phone over immediately because …
A Florida mother allegedly killed her two young children before taking her own life in an apparent double murder-suicide, WFLA-TV reports.On Wednesday evening, the woman’s husband, who is the father of the children, came home and found his family dead. The father then called 911. The deceased children were ages 9 months and 3 years …
A public school district in Illinois is coming under fire after hosting an “After School Satan Club” sponsored by Satan worshippers. The program was slated to start Thursday at The Jane Addams Elementary School in Moline, KWQC-TV reports. Volunteer organizers from the Satanic Temple of the United States say they are not seeking to convert …
The suspect is still on the loose
An upstate New York woman was kidnapped and brutally tortured by her estranged husband and his girlfriend for days, abuse that allegedly included cutting off a finger, sexual assault, and an attempted drowning, the Albany Times Union reports. Police have arrested 31-year-old Justin Wilson and 35-year-old Nicole Elmore; both are accused of kidnapping, sodomizing, whipping, …
There may be a fifth victim of the so-called “shopping cart killer,” the alleged serial killer in Virginia and around Washington, D.C., who leaves his victims in shopping carts. Police on Friday said they had received a “critical tip” that may link the killer to the death of a woman whose body was found in …
Actor Alec Baldwin this weekend sought to quash any doubts about his cooperation with law enforcement investigating the fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last year, CNN reports. On Saturday, Baldwin posted a video to Instagram telling viewers that he was working with authorities and that any suggestion he is not complying with a search warrant …
Horrific details of alleged child abuse have emerged after two Pennsylvania women were charged in connection with the deaths of a pair of young girls, WBRE-TV reports.Investigators allege that the girls were regularly starved, pushed into walls and choked before they died and were buried in the yard of a rural Hepburn Township home.What prompted the …
An Oklahoma couple allegedly attacked a woman with a crowbar and then had sex on the woman’s bed, even while they heard the victim struggle to live in her final moments, KNWA-TV reports. Authorities made the disturbing allegations in court documents charging 25-year-old Brinlee Denison and 28-year-old Nicholas Johnson with first-degree murder in connection with …
