A 7-year-old girl who went missing earlier this week from her North Texas home — prompting an Amber Alert — has been found dead, authorities announced Friday. A FedEx driver has been arrested on kidnapping and murder charges. Athena Strand had disappeared Wednesday evening from her father’s home in Paradise, Texas, CBS …
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A suspect in a break-in in Tulsa, Oklahoma, drowned in a pond while running from police on Thursday, the Tulsa Police Department said. At about 4:30 a.m., Tulsa police officers responded to an alarm going off at the clubhouse of an apartment building, the police department said on Facebook. When …
Read More »A New York man was convicted Wednesday of orchestrating the murder of his father in what prosecutors said was a plot to take over the older man’s lucrative real estate empire. A federal jury found Anthony Zottola Sr. and an associate, Himen Ross, guilty of conspiracy and murder-for-hire in the …
Read More »James Brennand — a former San Antonio Police Department officer who shot and critically wounded a teenager who was eating in his car in a McDonald’s parking lot — has been arrested and charged with assault. Brennand was fired from the force on Oct. 4, two days after the shooting. …
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The man charged with fatally striking “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes with an electric scooter last year pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday and is expected to be sentenced to one to three years in prison. Brian Boyd, 27, will be sentenced Nov. 30 in the death of Banes, who was …
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Montgomery, Ala. — – A federal judge on Monday blocked Alabama from executing an inmate who says the state lost his paperwork requesting an alternative to lethal injection. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker, Jr. issued a preliminary injunction to block the state from executing Alan Miller on Thursday by …
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Police are searching for the gunmen who opened fire outside an elementary school and wounded three people in the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia early Wednesday, CBS Philadelphia reports. Dozens of shots were fired around 1 a.m. and one of the bullets went into the school itself, authorities said. All three …
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Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna was arrested early Friday morning and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. Ozuna spoke to reporters for 18 seconds before the game against the Houston Astros. He made a statement, but didn’t take any questions. “I disappointed my team,” he said. “I disappointed …
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An airline subcontractor working out of the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport in Florida has been arrested on allegations of stealing luggage and items from passengers worth a total of up to $16,000, authorities announced Thursday. The arrest followed an investigation into missing items and luggage from travelers, the Okaloosa County …
Read More »Authorities in Alabama on Wednesday released horrific details of how a woman and boy were allegedly killed a day after an abducted 12-year-old girl escaped by chewing her way out of restraints, leading investigators to the discovery of two bodies. Already charged with first-degree kidnapping in connection with the girl’s …
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