A 12-year-old student at Westridge Middle School in Overland Park, Kansas, was arrested last month for forming a gun with her fingers and pointing it at four of her classmates one at a time and then herself. The Kansas City Star reported that the unnamed girl was charged with a felony for threatening. Court documents …
Authorities cancelled an AMBER Alert on Wednesday for 13-year-old Betsabe Perez after she and the man she was with were tracked to an apartment complex in the Fort Worth area with the help of an IP address from a cellphone, Val Verde County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez said, according to KWTX. Erik Diaz-Tapia, 19, was …
A 9-year-old was charged Tuesday with murder and arson in a central Illinois mobile home fire in April that killed five people, the Pantagraph reported. Woodford County State’s Attorney Greg Minger was not able to provide much detail about the case because the suspect is a juvenile. He said the child has been charged with …
A 16-year-old Detroit girl has been charged with stabbing to death her newborn infant earlier this year, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday. The girl has been charged as a juvenile with second degree murder, and her name is not being released. According to the Detroit News, emergency services were called to an apartment …
Matt Lauer isn’t the only NBC name who draws scrutiny in Ronan Farrow’s upcoming book, “Catch and Kill,” about his reporting of the Harvey Weinstein sex assault allegations: The book also offers details about the behavior of NBC News chief Andy Lack while he was an executive producer at CBS in the 1980s, the New …
A Pennsylvania man is in jail this week, charged with abuse of a corpse, concealing the death of a child, and drug offenses for tossing a stillborn baby into a barrel behind his home and burning it in 2017. The Reading Eagle said that William Jones, 49, was arrested on October 1 following an investigation …
Brian Gundy was having a pretty good 67th birthday. He’d just finished a talk at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown San Jose, California, and was packing up to go home and then enjoy a celebratory dinner. His load was heavy, so he set his duffel bag in a no parking area …
Police in Berks County, Pennsylvania, want to examine an X-Box and other electronic devices as they try to determine what happened to two children who died minutes apart in a hospital after they were found unconscious in the basement of their home. The Morning Call also reported that investigators wanted to examine a dog the …
A California inmate originally convicted in the deaths of four women and serving life without parole has confessed to 93 murders, the FBI says, and he’s been matched to more than 50 of them so far. The feds say that makes Samuel Little, 79, the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Little’s murder spree …
A brightly colored toy rifle prompted the shutdown of three Florida college campuses on Thursday when a student leaving one of the campuses for the night reported a man pointing a gun at her car, WSVN reported. “A little bit after 9 p.m., we received a call from a female that was a student over …
A Texas man missed his wedding on Saturday when he was arrested for robbing a bank the day before — to pay for the wedding. Heath Edward Bumpous, a former EMS employee, was arrested when his fiancee saw surveillance photos of him at the Citizens State Bank in Groveton, Texas, posted to Facebook and convinced …
Nine people were shot, four fatally, at a Kansas City, Kansas, bar early Sunday morning, and police are looking for two suspects caught on surveillance video, KMBC reported Sunday afternoon. Police said their preliminary investigation indicated that the shooting stemmed from an altercation earlier in the evening. According to KMBC, authorities believe that three men …
