A Massachusetts couple spotted a car Wednesday night highlighted in an AMBER Alert and gave chase, providing police with the information they needed to eventually stop the car and free an 11-year-old girl who had been grabbed while walking home from school hours earlier. Benny Correa and Amanda Disley spotted the blue Honda Civic with …
The US Virgin Islands filed suit against the estate of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, claiming that he abused and trafficked girls as recently as 2018 and as young as 11 or 12. Reuters said the complaint, filed by USVI Attorney General Denise George, seeks damages from Epstein’s $577.7 million estate — including the …
The boyfriend of six-year-old Zymere Perkins’s mother was found guilty Wednesday for beating the boy to death after he defecated in the living room. Ryshiem Smith, 42, was found guilty of second-degree murder, first-and second-degree manslaughter and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child by a Manhattan jury. His sentencing is scheduled for …
A Tennessee woman now faces charges of first degree murder in addition to child abuseafter her infant boy drowned in a bathtub while she went outside to smoke a cigarette. Lindsee Louise Leonardo, 32, told deputies she left 11-month-old Aiden Xavier Leonardo and his 23-month-old sister in four to six inches of water last Wednesday …
A 16-year-old Texas high school student has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of a fellow student Tuesday, an incident that Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said appeared to have been accidental. Police were notified of the shooting at Bellaire High School about 4 p.m. Both students were Junior Reserve Officer Training …
Police responding to a request for a welfare check on Saturday from a Kansas City man’s father found blood visible throughout the house, the son unresponsive on a bed, and his wife’s body rolled into an area rug in another room. KHSB reported that police found a 34-page note they believe was written by Brandon …
A female Uber driver jumped from her moving vehicle late Friday night to escape an armed passenger who had ordered her to drive him into the desert, the Grand Junction, Colorado, Police Department reported. Her white Toyota C-HR crashed into a fence after she jumped out, but by the time police arrived, the male passenger …
A Kentucky woman has been charged with murder after she allegedly turned her pit bull terrier loose on a man who subsequently died. Kentucky State Police responded to a call about a fatal dog attack in rural Rockcastle County on Friday morning and were initially unable to attend to the man because of the aggressive …
Six police officers and a flight attendant were injured Friday in an unruly passenger incident aboard a United Airlines flight arriving in Newark, New Jersey, from Washington, D.C, NBC New York reported. One Port Authority police officer was hospitalized with four broken ribs when he fell off a portable stairway while trying to arrest Matthew …
A Hawaii Best Buy employee said “not today” right before Christmas when she saw a man trying to leave the store without paying for expensive merchandise — again — so she did what she had to do. She blocked him from the door and took him down. Summer Tapasa-Sataraka lost her job for her efforts, …
A 21-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 92-year-old Queens woman on Monday night told detectives he’d been trying to help the old woman but lost his balance and fell, the New York Post reported. “He fell down, his belt broke, his pants fell down and his penis fell near her vagina,” prosecutor …
Police in southeastern Kentucky arrested the parents of a 5 1/2-month-old boy found lying on a road in “minimal clothing” with temperatures barely above freezing. The Louisville Courier-Journal said both Destiny D. McQueen, 21, and Michael E. Augst, 49, were under the influence of drugs when they were arrested at about 3:15 a.m. Thursday morning. …
