In a meadow in Argentina, an “unusual” creature called into the darkness. The small animal’s song wasn’t audible to humans, but it still caught the attention of visiting scientists. Lucas Rubio spotted the unfamiliar-looking cricket in a meadow in Buenos Aires Province in 2023 and captured it, according to a study published April 11 in […]
A kidnapped woman managed to escape at a Florida Walgreens after enduring more than two months of imprisonment and severe beatings, according to deputies. The victim seized the chance to run Monday, April 1, when she was left alone in a van outside the store in Seffner, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office reported in a […]
A woman who said she had been held captive by man who beat her for months was able to escape during a stop at a Walgreens, Florida officials said Tuesday. The woman took her chance to flee when the suspect, Walter Medina, 48, briefly left her unattended at the pharmacy in the Tampa area, the […]
It wasn’t his time. In a scene out of horror movie, a man narrowly escaped a saw blade as it came barreling toward him outside a store in Oregon. Video of the incident shows the man entering the store mere seconds before a large saw blade rolls quickly in his direction from across the parking […]
An executive of cryptocurrency exchange Binance has escaped custody in Nigeria, where a criminal investigation has been launched against the platform accused of being used for money laundering, authorities said. Nadeem Anjarwalla, the regional manager for Binance in Africa, “fled Nigeria using a smuggled passport”, the office of Nigeria’s National Security Adviser said in a […]
Police are searching for an escaped inmate and another person after corrections officers in Boise, Idaho, were shot early Wednesday in what officials described as a planned escape. The incident began at 2:15 a.m. local time when state Corrections Department officers were attempting to transfer inmate Skylar Meade back to the corrections facility, according to […]
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – An Idaho maximum-security prison inmate, assisted by an unknown accomplice, escaped from a Boise hospital early on Wednesday in a hail of gunfire that left three corrections officers wounded, one of them critically, sparking an intense manhunt. Skylar Meade, 31, a documented member of the Aryan Knights white supremacist gang […]
A steer escaped from a slaughterhouse and went on a chaotic rampage through the streets of Omaha, Nebraska, police told news outlets. Officers responded to a call from Nebraska Beef, on the southeast side of Omaha, at about 10:47 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, after a cow escaped from the facility, police told the Omaha World-Herald. […]
A 17-year-old girl escaped a man’s locked car at his work after he is accused of holding her hostage at his California home for nearly a week, deputies say. Zackary Dourousseau, 26, was arrested and is facing a number of charges, including kidnapping, false imprisonment and statutory rape, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said […]
Woman escapes Atlanta City Jail custody at Grady hospital, police say A woman has escaped custody while at Grady Memorial Hospital on Tuesday. Atlanta police say they were called to assist Atlanta City Jail staff at the hospital in response to an escaped inmate. Police previously identified her as a 36-year-old woman dressed only in […]
A 25-year-old man accused of breaking into a woman’s home and raping her in 2021 is going to prison, New Mexico officials said. Jose Maldonado, of Clovis, was found guilty Feb. 27 in connection to the May 2021 sexual assault, according to a news release from the Ninth Judicial District Attorney. The victim had woke […]
A woman held hostage in a basement for days without food or water was finally able to escape when her accused captor came down to kill her, Tennessee authorities said. She went to the home of her friend, 53-year-old Liddon Crutcher, on Feb. 27 to check in on him, Nashville prosecutors wrote in an arrest […]