ORLANDO, Fla. – Police stumbled across a gruesome discovery in 1973 – the remains of an unidentified teenager with two bullet wounds in her head found dumped in a landfill near Orlando, Florida. She had been dead for at least a month when her remains were recovered on Aug. 22 …
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The boat co-captain at the center of a viral video that captured a wild brawl at a dock in Alabama in August is now facing a misdemeanor assault charge. Montgomery court records show one of the men accused of assaulting Dameion Pickett during the incidentfiled a complaint last month saying …
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SPRINGDALE, Pa. – Police say a police officer lost control of his cruiser on a slippery road before crashing through the wall of a veterinary clinic in Pennsylvania. Springdale borough police Chief Julio Medeiros says the officer from neighboring Springdale Township was responding to a call when he crashed at …
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DALLAS – Texas is taking over management of the Alamo, ending the Daughters of the Texas Republic’s 110-year management of the site. In a joint statement with the group Thursday, Land Commissioner George P. Bush said the General Land Office was taking over the day-to-day management of the downtown San …
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorneys for four Oklahoma death row inmates are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a 10th Circuit Court ruling that approved the state’s execution drug protocol. Attorneys for Charles Warner, Richard Eugene Glossip, John Marion Grant and Benjamin Robert Cole have also requested stays of …
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BOSTON – Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) say they did nothing wrong by including excerpts from juror questionnaires in their third request to move the trial outside Massachusetts. In a court filing Thursday, Tsarnaev’s lawyers included comments some prospective jurors wrote saying they believe Tsarnaev …
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LOS ANGELES – Police say a 13-year-old girl was wounded in the leg by an apparent stray bullet while she was waiting at a bus stop in South Los Angeles. Officer Liliana Preciado says the shooting occurred about 7 a.m. Tuesday on South Central Avenue near 92nd Street. Preciado says …
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ST. LOUIS – Ferguson city leaders say they haven’t heard from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding two federal investigations, one into the fatal shooting death of Michael Brown in August and the other into the city police department’s practices. Earlier this week, Attorney General Eric Holder said he expects …
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VICTOR, N.Y. – Authorities say a New York man suspected of using stolen credit cards to buy expensive jewelry tried to hide some of the evidence by swallowing a diamond ring. The Ontario County Sheriff’s Office says 33-year-old Rahkeim Scarlett of Troy used a stolen card on Feb. 11 to …
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The public will have 30 more days to comment on federal regulations for exploratory drilling in the Arctic. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced Thursday they’re extending the comment period. The regulations would apply only to the Chukchi …
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