Police in the District of Columbia are struggling to find answers in the fatal shooting of a 23-month-old boy last week after family members who were present at the time reportedly stopped cooperating and contacted a lawyer. Officers found Legend Wheeler with a gunshot wound Wednesday afternoon and rushed him to a nearby hospital, where …
Maxwell’s defense said in opening statements that the British socialite was just “a scapegoat for a man who behaved badly.”
Chicago police are looking for three masked men who kidnapped a girl Saturday night. The girl, whose age was unknown, was walking near Austin High School while being followed by a four-door black sedan with tinted windows. When the girl walked under a viaduct, police said, three men in ski masks jumped out and forced …
Jeffrey Epstein compadre Ghislaine Maxwell finally gets her day in court on Monday, when opening statements are expected in her trial on multiple felony accounts, including sex trafficking. Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 after hiding out for months. She has been charged with enticing a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, transporting a …
A South Carolina mother has been charged with murder in the shooting death of her 6-year-old son on Thanksgiving. Police said that Mary Amelia Rosborough, 31, had returned from hunting at about 6 p.m. on Thursday, carrying her gun, when she shot the boy in the upper body, The Voice reported. Investigators have not released …
A 13-year-old Minnesota boy shot and killed a 5-year-old relative Thursday night while filming a video for social media. Brooklyn Park Police Deputy Chief Mark Bruley said the incident happened just after 10 p.m. during a family Thanksgiving gathering, WCCO reported. “A preliminary investigation found that at some point about four to five youths had …
The body of 2-year-old Emma Sweet was found Sunday in the White River, 2 1/2 miles from where duck hunters found her father in a submerged pickup truck earlier this week. Jeremy Sweet has been hospitalized for hypothermia and is reportedly in critical condition, WXIN reported. Emma and her father were last seen Wednesday night, …
Actor Jussie Smollett’s Chicago trial on charges that he faked a hate crime attack on himself three years ago begins Monday with jury selection. Smollett, 39, was a star of the television show “Empire” when he claimed he was attacked on January 29, 2019, by two men who hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him …
Remains believed to be those of a Wisconsin mother of four have been found near where she was last seen in late September. Ashley Miller Carlson, 33, was last seen on September 23 near the Lake Lena community on the Mille Lacs Band’s Reservation in Minnesota, and Applied Professional Services (APS) said it found the …
Investigators searching for 2-year-old girl missing after her father was found in a truck submerged in a river say the little girl was not in or beneath the vehicle when they pulled it out of the water. Emma and Jeremy Sweet were reported missing Thursday after they were last seen on Wednesday night, as CrimeOnline …
A 15-year-old boy in Dallas has been charged with the fatal shooting of his mother on Friday afternoon. Dallas Police said they were called to a home in the Oak Cliff neighborhood where a couple said their 2-year-old great-granddaughter had been dropped off by an unknown person. The great-grandparents told officers that the child was …
Jessalyn Torres spent her Thanksgiving on a ventilator at Children’s Wisconsin Hospital. It was the same the day after, and again on Saturday. But the 11-year-old Waukesha XTreme Dance Team member — one of four children who are still in serious condition after they were struck by a speeding SUV during the Waukesha Christmas Parade …
