Jul. 3—A Sharon man has been charged with killing and dismembering a missing 14-year boy. State police charged DaShawn Watkins, 29, of Sharon, with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in connection with the death of Paul Likens Jr., who was initially reported missing on June 25, and was suspected of being missing since […]
Former NFL player Daniel Muir and his wife have been charged after allegedly hiding their teenage son from authorities following concerns that the boy was abused. Bryson Muir, 14, was found safe Wednesday morning after Indiana State Police and local authorities executed search warrants on the family’s home in Logansport, according to a release from […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Six teenage players from a South Dakota American Legion baseball team who were charged as adults in a rape case last summer have reached plea deals. Three players from the Mitchell-based team pleaded guilty last month to being an accessory to a felony, and three others entered the same plea […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida prosecutors knew the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal that has long been criticized as too lenient and a missed opportunity to imprison him a decade earlier, according to transcripts released Monday. The 2006 grand jury investigation […]
A teenage driver was killed in a single-vehicle crash north of Boise early Friday, the Ada County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies from the Sheriff’s Office responded to the crash on Cartwright Road just after midnight Friday, Lauren Montague, a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office, told the Idaho Statesman by email. The driver and a passenger […]
A 19-year-old electric scooter rider is dead after colliding with an SUV at a New Jersey intersection, then being hit by another vehicle after landing on the road. Stephen B. Johnson III was crossing West White Horse Pike at West Jimmie Leeds Road in Galloway Township, N.J. when he was killed, according to Galloway Township […]
Police are responding to a shooting at Garfield High School, according to the Seattle Police Department. Harborview Medical Center confirmed to KIRO 7 that a teenage boy was brought in and was in serious condition. At about 12:31 p.m., officers responded to a shooting in the 400 block of 23rd Avenue. Police are looking for […]
The remains of a juvenile T. rex in North Dakota were stumbled upon not by a group of skilled paleontologists, but rather by three young boys whose goal that day was to simply go for a hike. Sam Fisher, 45, took his sons Jessin, 12; Liam, 9; and their 11-year-old cousin, Kaiden Madsen, on a hike […]
The incident has triggered a rare outpouring of sympathy for the police [AFP] Kenyan police have arrested a 19-year-old motorist who was filmed beating up a traffic policeman on a road in the capital, Nairobi. In a video that has been widely shared, the man is seen attacking the policeman with punches and kicks to […]
A woman who admitted to being impaired during a crash that killed a 17-year-old girl in Logan County has been sentenced. Briana Mohler, 22, was sentenced to 11 to 16.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide, OVI, and driving under a suspended license. News Center 7 previously reported back in January […]
May 25—A Biddeford landlord who was serving a life sentence for killing two teenage tenants has died in prison. James Earl Pak, 86, died just before 5 a.m. Saturday in Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston, according to the Maine Department of Corrections. The department said Pak was attended by medical personnel when he died […]
Pope Francis paved the way for the canonisation of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer wizard who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3rd, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian parents to Milan as a child, […]