Authorities investigating the disappearance of a North Carolina girl released video footage this week that appears to show her exiting a school bus on Nov. 21, marking the final time she was definitively seen before going missing. Madalina Cojocari, 11, is now the focus of a widespread search involving detectives …
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A South Florida woman claiming to be a psychic has been sentenced to federal prison along with her partner for orchestrating a “family curse, fortune telling and swindling a victim out of more than $3 million,” prosecutors announced Thursday. The fraud ran for several years and only ended after the …
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Five family members were found dead Wednesday inside their Phoenix home in what authorities were classifying as a homicide case. Police said the two adults and three children had “obvious signs of trauma” and that investigators were not searching for a suspect in the deaths. The names and ages of …
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Authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with seven fires set across Mississippi’s capital city early Tuesday. At least two of the buildings set ablaze in Jackson were churches; one was burned to the ground. Another fire broke out on fences surrounding the baseball practice field at Jackson State University, …
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Authorities on Wednesday seized 12,000 suspected fentanyl pills that had been stuffed inside candy boxes at Los Angeles International Airport, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said. At around 7:30 a.m. local time, a suspect tried to go through security with several bags of candy and “miscellaneous snacks,” the sheriff’s department …
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Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.” Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced the decision during a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Mosby told reporters that new DNA tests found a “DNA …
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Gunmen on Wednesday killed six police officers in a northern Mexican state where rival cartels are fighting over drug trafficking routes, authorities said. Five of the officers were shot dead while training at a sports center in Calera de Victor Rosales, the Zacatecas state government said. Two more law enforcement …
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A former Kansas police detective accused of preying on Black women and girls for decades will be released from jail pending his trial on charges involving two accusers who say he repeatedly sexually abused them, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S Magistrate Judge Rachel Schwartz acknowledged the allegations against Roger …
Read More »Two Florida residents have pleaded guilty in a scheme to peddle a diary and other items belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter to the conservative group Project Veritas for $40,000, prosecutors said Thursday. Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander “sought to profit from their theft of another person’s personal property,” Manhattan …
Read More »Officials are investigating the disappearance of Harmony Montgomery, who was 5 years old when she was last seen in 2019, as a homicide, authorities announced Thursday. Montgomery’s remains have not yet been found, but biological evidence “led us to this difficult and tragic conclusion,” New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella …
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