A local man employed at Mayo Clinic finds himself behind bars after allegedly attempting to arrange a sexual encounter with what he believed to be an eight-year-old girl. Shockwaves rippled through the community as neighbors grappled with the startling revelations. >> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE
Juan Lerma’s conviction in the death of his 8-year-old daughter was upheld by the New Mexico Supreme Court, maintaining his life sentence in prison for child abuse. Lerma was convicted Nov. 18, 2022 after a jury trial in Fifth Judicial District Court on a single count of intentional child abuse resulting in death of a […]
Nevada authorities released bodycam video of their officers rescuing a distraught young girl from an apartment fire last month. The Henderson Police Department shared the bodycam video, which was taken on Mar. 10, on Facebook last week. Authorities said they were told a child and mother were trapped in the apartment. “Upon arrival, officers observed […]
Police in Warren are looking into whether a handgun was properly stored as an 8-year-old boy fights for life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The boy was in critical condition Friday, Warren police said in a news release. The shooting occurred in the Cove on 10 Apartment Complex in Warren on Friday afternoon. Police and […]
The cause of death for the 8-year-old Kentucky boy who mysteriously died after eating strawberries at a school fundraiser last month has been revealed. The Hopkin’s County Coroner’s Office told USA TODAY that the boy’s death was caused by fentanyl intoxication not from eating the strawberries. The coroner’s office said that the manner of death […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The 8-year-old lone survivor of a bus crash that killed at least 45 people in South Africa before Easter weekend will be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, health officials said. Atlang Siako is expected to travel to her home in neighboring Botswana, from where the bus was traveling last Thursday on […]
According to police, the fourth and apparently final person wanted in connection with a February gang-related shooting in Virginia Beach that left an 8-year-old boy hospitalized with serious injuries has been arrested. Police responded to the 3200 block of Peele Court following reports of gunfire shortly after 6 p.m. on Feb. 13. At the scene […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa Thursday, killing at least 45 people, authorities said. The only survivor of the crash was an 8-year-old child, who was receiving medical attention, according to […]
A missing 8-year-old Texas girl has been found dead in a hotel swimming pool, Houston police told news outlets. The girl’s body was discovered in the pool at a DoubleTree hotel on Houston’s northwest side just before midnight on Saturday, March 23, police told KHOU. Police said the pool was drained before her body was […]
ST. LOUIS – A man has been charged with kidnapping and second-degree domestic assault, according to officials. Police issued an “at-large” warrant on 52-year-old Rodney Wilson Wednesday. He was arrested Friday in the 3600 block of Chippawa St. He is facing charges of abuse or neglect of a child-no sexual contact, first-degree kidnapping, abuse or […]
An 8-year-old Massachusetts boy was killed in a high-speed crash in Maine that also seriously injured his father and brother Saturday, police say. Police say a 2016 Subaru Impreza was traveling eastbound on U.S. Route 2 in Rumford, Maine when it collided with a 2005 Volvo-80 4-door, Rumford police say. Moments after the crash and […]
Eight-year-old Dallin Cunningham was playing at his Utah elementary school’s playground last February when he took a turn on the slide. As he came down the Rose Springs Elementary School corkscrew slide, he “flew out” 7 feet above ground, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed Monday, March 4. Dallin landed on a “frozen rock-hard” […]