Women Gets Life After Cutting Fetus From Friend
BELLEVILLE, Ill. An Illinois woman pleaded guilty Monday to killing her pregnant friend, the unborn child and the victim’s three children in a plea deal that allowed her to avoid the death penalty.
Tiffany Hall, 26, pleaded guilty to all five charges against her — four counts of murder and one of intentional homicide in the […]
Kids Playing Ball on Florida Beach Stumble Upon Skeleton
PORT ORANGE, Fla. Authorities say a group of children playing ball on a beach discovered an adult human skeleton in the back yard of home near Port Orange, Florida.
The sheriff’s office in Volusia County says yesterday’s find is being investigated as a suspicious death. The person had been dead for a few months, but it’s […]
19 schoolgirls die in Ugandan blaze
KAMPALA, Uganda (CNN) At least 19 schoolgirls died when fire erupted in their dormitory west of the capital, Kampala, late Monday, say police and school officials.
Authorities also found the bodies of two adults in the ashes of the blaze at Buddo Junior School in Mpigi. The school’s headmaster said 42 girls survived.
Sunshine State Missy, 11, Dies When Sand Tunnel Caves In
SPRING HILL, Fla. Authorities say an 11-year-old girl died when she was buried by sand while playing near her Hernando County home.
Friends say they tried but failed to pull Brittany Saavedra out of the sand that collapsed on top of her. She had been digging a tunnel in a retention area in their neighborhood Saturday […]
Amber Alert Bringed out for 3 Windy City Small fries; Mother Launched Bushed
CHICAGO Officials say a Chicago woman whose three children have been declared missing has been found dead with a plastic bag over her head.
Authorities say 30-year-old Sophia Garcia was found dead in her Northwest Side home around noon on Monday.
Police issued an Amber Alert for Garcia’s children and say they’re looking for the woman’s boyfriend […]
Prairie State Young woman, 12, Salves Sibs From Business firm Fire
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. As flames consumed her home and prevented her parents from helping, a quick-thinking 12-year-old girl saved two younger siblings Saturday by kicking out a second-story window and easing them down, firefighters said.
Derrionna Adams then leaped 15 feet to safety, East St. Louis Fire Chief William Fennoy said.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Searches for Pop Who Allegedly Threatened to Defeat Kids
ATLANTA A Georgia man fled the state last week with his three young children and sent a letter to his father stating that he was going to kill the kids, the FBI said Tuesday as it sought public assistance in locating the suspect.
Eddie Harrington, 28, has been missing from the Columbus, Ga., area since at […]
Cops: No Suspects, Few Clues, No Motive in Memphis Execution
MEMPHIS, Tenn. A day into one of the city’s biggest murder investigations in decades - two men, two women and two boys shot and stabbed - police conceded Tuesday they had virtually nothing to go on.
Investigators said they believed the attacker or attackers were not among the dead, ruling out a murder-suicide.
