John Nightbridge Police say 29-year-old Jordan Scales was found dead Sunday in a wooded area near South Federal Highway, and detectives believe the killing happened sometime over the previous three days. BOYNTON BEACH, FL — A 29-year-old Ohio man who had recently moved to South Florida was found dead in a wooded area near South Federal Highway on Sunday morning, and Boynton Beach police are investigating the case as a homicide with no arrest announced as of …
Kentucky State Police said the suspected gunman was killed after hours of negotiations and gunfire at a home near Columbia. COLUMBIA, KY — Four people, including a suspected gunman, were dead after a series of shootings Monday in Adair County that ended in an hours-long standoff with police at a home on Chestnut Grove Road, Kentucky State Police said. The violence stretched across three homes and much of the day, turning a rural area near …
Authorities say a second accuser came forward after hearing about his March arrest in a separate case. MIAMI, FL — A North Miami Beach rabbi and counselor was arrested for the second time in less than a month after Miami-Dade investigators said a second young woman accused him of lewd conduct that happened when she was 14, broadening a case that had already put him under court restrictions. Shaya Lunger, who also goes by Yona …
Authorities say the victims included a 17-year-old who was pregnant, and investigators believe more than one person may have been involved. WILMER, AL — Three members of a Mobile County family, including a pregnant 17-year-old girl, were found slain inside their home on Auble Moody Road on Monday, April 20, after a relative went to check on them, and investigators said the killings appeared planned. The deaths stunned relatives and neighbors and quickly became one …
Florida troopers say Jonathan Matos Morales caused a chain-reaction wreck that killed a semi-truck driver in Manatee County. BRADENTON, FL — A former Atlanta Braves minor league catcher was arrested after Florida troopers said he caused a deadly hit-and-run crash on Interstate 75 in Manatee County on Monday, April 20, killing a 34-year-old semi-truck driver and injuring another motorist. Jonathan Matos Morales, 18, of Cocoa, was booked on charges of vehicular homicide and leaving the …
Officials said no one else was hurt, but the death closed two Parma district high schools for two days. PARMA HEIGHTS, OH — A student died Monday after a self-inflicted gunshot in the cafeteria at Valley Forge High School, prompting a large emergency response, a campus evacuation and the closure of Valley Forge and Normandy high schools for two days, school and police officials said. The death shook the Parma City School District at the …
Police sources said the suspects fled from Tacony in a blue vehicle later found in Northern Liberties. PHILADELPHIA, PA — Two armed men stole about $1.8 million from a Brinks armored truck in Philadelphia’s Tacony section on Tuesday morning, police sources said, then fled in a blue vehicle that investigators later said they found abandoned several miles away. The robbery drew an immediate federal response and renewed attention on a run of armored-truck holdups that …
Police said officers responded to gunfire near Foothill Boulevard and 64th Avenue and found victims on two nearby blocks. OAKLAND, CA — A man and a woman were killed and another man was critically injured after a shooting Saturday night in East Oakland’s Frick neighborhood, where police said officers were sent to the area of Foothill Boulevard and 64th Avenue just before 8:15 p.m. The shooting quickly became one of Oakland’s latest homicide investigations and …
Police say the case began as a report of a missing child late Friday night in Piedmont, Alabama. PIEDMONT, AL — A 10-year-old girl was found dead inside a home in Piedmont late Friday after police were called to investigate a missing child report, and another juvenile was later taken into custody and charged with murder. The girl was identified by the Calhoun County coroner as Katheryn Aliceanna Bigbee. Police have released few details beyond …
Prosecutors say the April 8 dispute over a food order ended with one worker dead and another injured. ST. LOUIS, MO — A 20-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder after prosecutors said she opened fire during an argument at a Steak ‘n Shake drive-thru in north St. Louis County, killing employee Chauncia Lashell Meekins and wounding another worker. Charges filed Monday mark the first major break in a case that drew attention across …