Sacramento Police Department(SACRAMENTO) — The suspected “Golden State Killer,” accused of murders across California, will be prosecuted in one combined trial in Sacramento, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Joseph DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police officer, was arrested this April, following decades in which California law enforcement officers were stumped by what became […]
iStock/Thinkstock(DENVER) — Shanann Watts’ father was overcome with emotion in a Colorado courtroom Tuesday, crying with his head buried in his hands as murder charges were read against his son-in-law. Chris Watts is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, Celeste, 3, and Bella, 4, […]
iStock/Thinkstock(HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.) — A woman who was killed by an alligator on a South Carolina golf course is being remembered by colleagues as a dedicated kindergarten teacher. Cassandra Cline, 45, was attacked by an alligator Monday as she walked her dog near a lagoon on a community golf […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Authorities have launched an investigation into the heartbreaking death of a 3-year-old boy whose body was found in a dryer at a townhouse where he lived with his father in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The child’s body was found inside the dryer by his father earlier this month […]
Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office(NEW YORK) — A body was found Tuesday in rural Iowa during the search for missing jogger Mollie Tibbetts, state officials said. Authorities were “working to confirm the identity,” the state officials said. Tibbetts, a 20-year-old rising sophomore at the University of Iowa, vanished the evening of […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Lane is a powerful Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, and gusts to 185 mph, as of Tuesday morning. The forecast takes the hurricane toward the islands of Hawaii, possibly coming close to Honolulu by Friday. Hurricane conditions are possible in […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A dispute over a Crock-Pot led to a confrontation at a backyard barbecue in Michigan in which police tased a father as he held his 2-month-old baby, an incident recorded by a witness in a cell-phone video that has gone viral. Ray Brown, 33, was tased multiple […]
Sara D. Davis/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Demonstrators knocked down a controversial Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday, capping off a night that began as a peaceful protest, school officials said. The university said a group of protesters toppled the “Silent Sam” Confederate monument […]
Weld County Sheriff(DENVER) — A Colorado man accused of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters allegedly claims he walked in on his wife strangling their two children, a police affidavit stated. Shanann Watts, 34, was reported missing along with daughters Celeste, 3, and Bella, 4, on Aug. 14 […]
Weld County Sheriff(DENVER) — The Colorado man accused of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters has been charged with three counts of murder, prosecutors said. When Shanann Watts, 34, and her children, Celeste, 3, and Bella, 4, were reported missing last Monday by a family friend, Watts’ husband, […]
