No calls, no ransom note, and no information was given to the family of 10-year-old Lindsey Baum after she vanished in 2009. Her family had no idea if she had been kidnapped, if she was hurt and unable to call for help, or even if worse, if she had been killed. Their questions were answered …
By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A nanny convicted of brutally murdering two small children in her care has been sentenced in New York City to life in prison without parole. Yoselyn Ortega was convicted last month in the deaths of 6-year-old Lucia Krim and 2-year-old Leo Krim and was …
“He gave them to me and now he’s taken them away, if it had to happen, there is no better person than that,” the grieving father said of his estranged father-in-law
Authorities in California arrested a man on suspicion of threatening and intimidating members of the LGBTQ community and others. According to KRON, Vincent Joseph O’Sullivan was arrested on Saturday and linked to the recent string of alleged criminal behavior. Reports indicate he was booked into Sonoma County Main Adult Detention Facility later the same day …
A review of the disciplinary procedures in Florida’s Broward District has found that the school district appears to favor maintaining a positive image than appropriately disciplining students, many of them repeat offenders. The Sun Sentinel performed a review of the school district’s disciplinary policies, examining records and interviewing school administrators, and found that misbehaving students …
Three Georgia police officers required medical treatment recently after they responded to a call at a local motel. Firefighters were the first to arrive at the scene where a man was believed to be incapacitated in a third-floor room. Police arrived minutes later. Shortly after entering the room at the United Inn & Suites sometime …
Authorities in Texas have arrested two men believed to have been involved in the horrific abuse of a teen runaway beginning last year. According to the San Antonio Express News, 28-year-old Ray Hernandez Jr. allegedly met the 15-year-old girl online and had soon begun prostituting her to his friends and other men. He was arrested …
Florida prosecutors charged four men under the state’s hate-crime enhancement law for allegedly attacking a gay couple during Miami Beach’s pride parade. From the Miami Herald, Juan Carlos Lopez, 21, Luis M. Alonso Piovet, 20, Adonis Diaz, 21, and Pablo Reinaldo Romo-Figueroa, 21, face up to 30 years in prison if found guilty of assaulting Rene Chalarca and …
Investigators believe a grandfather gunned down his wife, daughter, her four children and then himself in what authorities say is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia in 22 years. The New York Post reports that three guns recovered from the scene belong to 61-year-old Peter Miles, who owned the remote farmstead where the bodies were …
Authorities in Arkansas are investigating the deadly beating and potential rape of a young girl in her own home, WTXL-TV reports. The 3-year-old child was found with bruising from the waist up and what appeared to be a cord tied around her neck. There are also indications, including blood evidence, that the girl may have been …
An Arizona woman accused of sending 65,000 texts to a man she met only once says she will stay in jail if that’s what the victim wants, while professing her undying love to him. NBC reports that during a jailhouse interview with the media on Thursday, 31-year-old Jacqueline Ades attempted to explain why she allegedly …
Authorities in Florida say a woman stabbed her own son after he refused to purchase crack cocaine for her earlier this week. According to the New York Post, 58-year-old Debra Denise Warren had been drinking at her Gainesville home when she expressed a desire for narcotics. Police believe she grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed …
