Two women were caught about 30 minutes after robbing a victim Thursday night on the North Side, Chicago police said. The women were arrested shortly before 8 p.m. in the 700 block of North Noble Street after they were identified as the duo who less than 30 minutes earlier battered and robbed a 29-year-old woman […]
Two people from Maryland are dead after a car drove off an embankment and fell 30 feet into a ravine during a police chase in Pennsylvania, officials told news outlets. Farmer Dennis Hissong, a witness, told WGAL he had only had only ever seen such a thing in movies. It was the wee hours of […]
A Texas man is accused of fracturing his 4-month-old child’s skull after becoming “frustrated,” officials said. The child was admitted to a hospital in San Antonio on Dec. 13 with a “skull fracture and six rib fractures,” according to a Dec. 22 news release from the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. The child’s father, a 19-year-old, […]
A 36-year-old was arrested after a 2-year-old was found in cardiac arrest, Utah police said. Officers with Roy City police responded to a home and found a 2-year-old boy unresponsive, according to a Dec. 21 Facebook post by police. Johnathan Dunn, a friend of the family who was babysitting the child at the time, was […]
Did someone drop a hand grenade outside an Oregon middle school? It sure looked like it, police said. On Dec. 18, officers in McMinnville responded to Patton Middle School after getting reports of a potential hand grenade being found in the grass near the school’s running track, according to a Dec. 20 Facebook post by […]
An 84-year-old shot and killed at his convenience store in Virginia is being remembered as a pillar of the local community. James Carter was wounded during a dispute in front of his convenience store the evening of Dec. 20, the Norfolk Police Department said in a news release. He was taken to a hospital, where […]
A 31-year-old man was charged Thursday with attempt murder in a November attack where he was accused of hitting a 61-year-old man multiple times with an object before robbing him, cops said. Stephan Stevens of the 11600 block of South Wallace Street also was charged with one count of armed robbery, armed habitual criminal, possession […]
If you haven’t read Courier Journal reporter Josh Wood’s piece on the Louisville Metro Police “Slushygate” scandal and watched the videos of thuggish police officers carrying out attacks on innocent pedestrians, you need to. And if you’re anything like me, your first question will be, “Why weren’t more officers fired for their roles in carrying […]
A stranger stepped in when he realized a woman needed help, Colorado officials said. Ashton Miller was working at a construction site when the woman “frantically pulled her vehicle into his job site,” according to a Dec. 16 Facebook post by the Commerce City Police Department. The woman told Miller her son, who was in […]
A husband is accused of keeping the body of his deceased wife in their living room for days after she died from a suspected medical episode, Florida police said. The 60-year-old called officers on Dec. 16 and said someone was inside his home and he believed his wife was dead, according to an arrest affidavit […]
A mother was arrested following an RV fire that caused her baby’s death, Arkansas cops say. The Cleburne County Sheriff’s Office announced charges Wednesday, Dec. 20, against 34-year-old Diana Welch following the Nov. 20 incident in Tumbling Shoals, about 70 miles northeast of Little Rock. Welch told authorities she was sleeping in the RV and […]
A pedestrian who was hit by a car Saturday night crashed through its windshield — ending up in the passenger seat — as the driver of the car continued his journey until reaching a Jack in the Box parking lot in White Settlement. When police were called to the scene around 11 p.m. Saturday they […]