Ecuador’s youngest mayor was found shot to death Sunday, police said, as the South American country approaches its third month of a state of emergency decreed by the government to crack down on soaring gang violence. Brigitte Garcia, the 27-year-old mayor of coastal San Vicente, was found dead along with her adviser, the municipality’s communications director, Jairo Loor. During the …
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The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah. The 12-year-old son ofRuby Franke, a mother of six who dispensed advice to millions via …
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Two men allegedly killed by an Idaho inmate who escaped custody this week with the help of an accomplice have been identified. James L. Mauney, 83, and 72-year-old Gerald “Don” Henderson were killed near their homes during themassive manhuntfor Skylar Meade, who escaped from Idaho Department of Corrections custody, allegedly with assistance from Nicholas Umphenour, Idaho State Police said. The …
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A British man has been sentenced to 37 years in prison after poisoning a husband and wife with fentanyl and reworking their will to seize control of their business. The sentence for Luke D’Wit is “among the most significant sentences ever secured” after an investigation by Essex Police Department officers, the department said in anews release. D’Wit, 34, first met …
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An escaped inmate and his alleged accomplice, both members of a white supremacist gang, were arrested in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Thursday afternoon after a massive manhunt, and now investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run. Inmate Skylar Meade escaped from a medical center in Boise early Wednesday morning after Nicholas Umphenour allegedly opened …
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A third man has been charged with murder in the deadly shooting at last month’s Kansas City Chiefs parade, prosecutors announced Thursday. One woman was killed in the shooting at the end of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade and over two dozen others were wounded. Terry Young, 20, was charged with murder in the second degree, unlawful use of …
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Prosecutors in the violent western Mexican state of Jalisco said Wednesday they found five dead bodies piled in a bulletproof SUV, while near the Arizona border authorities found seven more bodies. The state prosecutors’ office said someone called an emergency number to report the vehicle Tuesday. Inside, police found the bodies of five men “with visible signs of violence.” The …
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Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who faked her own kidnapping last year, pleaded guilty Thursday and avoided jail time, according to CBS affiliate WIAT. Russell, then a 25-year-old nursing student, told Hoover police she was abducted July 13 after seeing a toddler on the side of the road. She told police an unknown man had forced her over a fence …
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Partially dismembered human remains found in 1979 in a Chicago suburb have been identified through DNA and forensic genealogy as those of a man who was 27 when he vanished, authorities said. Barrington Hills police announced Wednesday the remains are those of Joseph A. Caliva. He vanished in August 1979, the same month a boy who was horseback riding found …
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Three juveniles, aged 11, 12 and 16, were arrested Tuesday in connection with a bank robbery in Houston last week. “All three suspects known as the ‘little rascals’ are in custody,” charged locally with robbery by threat, FBI Houston said on social media. Because they are juveniles, no additional identifying details will be released, the FBI added. FBI Houston tweeted …
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