A Virginia police officer — mom of a 2-year-old daughter and a US Navy veteran — was killed Thursday during a traffic stop when the driver of the car she stopped accelerated, dragging her for about a block before crashing into a tree. Officer Katie Thyne, 24, was pinned between the tree and the vehicle’s …
Update 8:49 p.m.: The woman who opened fire at a suburban Chicago cigar lounge Friday night had a concealed carry permit and no criminal record, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Lisa McMullan shot and killed retired Illinois state trooper Gregory Rieves and wounded another retired trooper and an off-duty trooper before turning the gun on herself. …
A North Carolina pastor has been charged with 116 sex crimes with minors over a period of 15 years, ABC 11 reported. Rodney Luffman, 58, was arrested and charged with 84 counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, 18 counts of statutory rape against a child between the ages of 13 and 15, 13 …
Three people have been charged with first degree murder and arson in the death of a 76-year-old Lumberton, North Carolina, woman whose body was found inside her home after firefighters responded to a house fire there, the Lumberton Police Department announced Saturday, according to WPDE reporter Tonya Brown. Annette Hendren Ivey, a widow, lived with …
A North Carolina man has been charged with holding a woman as his sex slave for five years, Fox 8 reported. The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office said it received a tip from the National Human Trafficking Hotline and launched an investigation immediately, leading them to Salvador Espinoza Escobar, 48. He was arrested without incident at …
The father and step-mother of a 5-year-old girl found dead in a California storage unit last year pleaded guilty to killing her in a Nevada court on Thursday, the Las Vegas Sun reported. The decomposing body of little Cali Anderson was found on May 15, 2018, in a Sacramento, California, storage unit, stuffed into a …
Florida police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who killed a 63-year-old woman and her dog in Fort Myers, NBC 2 reported. Kate Johnson and Diva, a standard poodle, were crossing McGregor Boulevard just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday when they were hit. Police believe the vehicle that hit them was a light-colored Nissan. Johnson …
Harvey Weinstein personally called an investigator with a “red flag” list of women he wanted scrutinized as sexual misconduct allegations against the now-disgraced movie mogul flooded the media in 2017, the investigator said during testimony at Weinstein’s rape trial in New York, the New York Post reported. On the list, highlighted in red, was actress …
An Alabama girl last seen getting into a Mercedes SUV Tuesday morning has been found safe, the Pelham Police Department said, and detectives are seeking a warrant for the arrest of a 24-year-old suspect for interference with custody. Amberley Flores, 13, “willingly got into” the Mercedes near Green Park South Mobile Homes in Pelham, police …
A 17-year-old California girl who vanished shortly after allegedly texting her mother about a man talking to her from a car as she walked home from school has been found safe, the Alhambra Police Department said. The department put out an alert for Emily Suarez after she disappeared Wednesday morning. Surveillance footage showed her walking …
Update: 7:56 p.m. ABC 7 reports that Emily Suarez has been found alive. Original story: Police are looking for a 17-year-old girl who vanished Wednesday morning after allegedly sending a text to her mother that “a man is trying to talk to me” as she walked along a street in downtown Alhambra, California. Emily Suarez …
Colin Jeffery “CJ” Haynie has been charged with four counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempted aggravated murder, and five counts of discharge of a firearm in the shooting deaths of his mother and three siblings and the wounding of his father, KSL reported on Wednesday. Prosecutors revealed disturbing details of the January 17 …
