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An $11,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the person who shot a 15-year-old honor student Tuesday in a Chicago park. Meanwhile, the girl’s parents, police and city leaders called for the community to help police identify the person responsible for the death of Hadiya Pendleton. Last week, the high […]
An unidentified woman who was seeking a protective order against her 31-year-old ex-boyfriend, Rashad Greene, was attacked in court by Greene after court officials left Magistrate Tracey Stoner, the unidentified woman and the man alone in the court room. In the video, you can see the woman and Greene engaged in a heated discussion when […]
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has tapped his former chief-of-staff William “Mo” Cowan to serve as interim U.S. senator until a special election to fill the seat left vacant by Secretary of State-designate John Kerry. Patrick says Cowan’s role in helping turn around the Massachusetts economy in recent years “has earned him the […]
LONDON, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio police captain who spent nearly 15 years in prison in his ex-wife’s killing was released Tuesday hours after a judge ruled that DNA test results prove he’s innocent and no reasonable jury would find otherwise. Doug Prade was released from the Madison Correctional Institution outside of Columbus just […]
MAHANOY CITY, Pa. (AP) — An eastern Pennsylvania high school says vandalism forced it to create a policy in which toilet paper has been taken out of the boys’ bathrooms. Boys at Mahanoy Area High School now must go to the school office to request toilet paper and sign it out. Principal Thomas Smith says […]
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say a man boarded a school bus, shot the driver several times, then removed a 6-year-old passenger and ran. The Dale County Sheriff tells WBMA-TV that the man shot the driver Tuesday after he refused to let the child off the bus. The bus driver later died […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans has celebrated plenty of milestones on its slow road to recovery from Hurricane Katrina, but arguably none is bigger than hosting its first Super Bowl since the 2005 storm left the city in shambles. To see the remnants of Katrina’s destruction, fans coming to town for Sunday’s game will […]
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The first woman scheduled to be executed in the U.S. since 2010 won a reprieve Tuesday, mere hours before she was scheduled to be taken to the Texas death chamber. State District Judge Larry Mitchell, in Dallas, rescheduled Kimberly McCarthy‘s punishment for April 3 so lawyers for the former nursing home […]
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A 75-year-old barber was jailed Tuesday for investigation of killing a urologist in his exam room, but police have not yet released a motive. Stanwood Fred Elkus of Lake Elsinore was arrested following the Monday afternoon attack and held on $1 million bail, according to the county jail website. Elkus […]
Latoris Grovner, 22, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for the murder of his girlfriend’s mother, Alena Marble, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking swift action on immigration, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will try to rally public support behind his proposals for giving millions of illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, as well as making improvements to the legal immigration system and border security. The president will launch his push in a campaign-style event […]
Some North Carolina residents may no longer be able to take their chances at winning the jackpot. A new state policy is looking to ban welfare recipients and people who have filed bankruptcy from purchasing lottery tickets. State officials believe that it is counterproductive for welfare lottery ticket holders to accept the winnings if they […]
