Baltimore, MD

California State

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Santa Monica, CA

Brigid Pfeifer

The world has lost a ground breaking acting legend. On March 29th, 2024, Louis Gossett Jr. passed away in Santa Monica, California. He was 87 years old. Gossett Jr. was born in 1936 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. After obtaining a sports injury at age 17, he was encouraged to participate in a school play. Not long afterwards, he was encouraged to try out for a Broadway play. The rest, as they say, was history.

Academy Award Winning Actor Dies at Age 87

Plano, TX

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In a harrowing turn of events, the Plano Police Department responded to a distressing scene on April 19, where 55-year-old David Nunley was found with a fatal gunshot wound at his home on Monticello Circle. Subsequent investigations have led to the arrest of his ex-wife, 38-year-old Merridith Nunley, on suspicion of murder.

Woman accused of killing ex-husband

Pennsylvania State

Little Rock, AR

NBC News

A former mortuary worker in Arkansas pleaded guilty to transporting stolen body parts across state lines, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Candace Chapman Scott, 37, of Little Rock, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

Ex-mortuary worker pleads guilty to selling 24 boxes of body parts stolen from Arkansas cadavers

East Hartford, CT

Two barbers who dropped everything to save a little girl from running into traffic say they are simply dads with lucky timing. Surveillance video posted to the Instagram account of Look Sharp Barbershop owner Osvaldo Lugo and his employee Rafael Santana shows the pair racing out of the establishment after a young girl who ran down the road by herself.

See the dramatic moment two barbers ran out the door to stop a child from wandering into traffic

Texas State

Houston, TX

Lance R. Fletcher

A Texas teacher and her husband are now in custody, accused of taking thousands of dollars from home renovation clients and gambling away money they took for work they never finished.

Texas teacher and husband arrested, accused of gambling away $1.53 million in home renovation scam

San Francisco, CA

The teenage child of former Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield has been located safely after having run away from home, officials announced Sunday. Mint Butterfield, 16, was found in San Francisco at 11:30 p.m. local time Saturday, the Marin County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Sunday. Mint was last seen...

Former Slack CEO's teenager has been safely located after running away, officials say

San Bernardino County, CA

Baker, CA

Pain In The Pass

BAKER, CA. (Pain In The Pass) >> Three people were killed in an head-on accident on northbound Interstate 15 Saturday afternoon. Four people were airlifted to the hospital. Photo above is credit by Nicole Rivera.)

3 Killed, 4 Airlifted to Hospital Following Head-On Collision on I-15 near Baker CA., on Saturday

Oklahoma State

Broken Arrow, OK

“We always called her Joi,” Charlotte Autry, Marilyn Joi Base’s childhood best friend, told Dateline. “She was, absolutely, a joy.”. Charlotte thinks fondly of the childhood she spent alongside Joi in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, just outside of Tulsa. She talked about the blissful, slow-paced lifestyle they led as young girls — running around the farmland behind their properties, playing with horses, and singing in church. “[Joi’s family] had a ditch in their backyard, and they had a swing on a rope — and we would swing over that ditch,” she said. “It was a blast.”

Oklahoma woman seeks answers 37 years after the abduction and murder of her best friend, Marilyn Joi Base

Colorado State

Greeley, CO

Four Colorado police officers were dispatched to a home early one morning to investigate reports of a woman screaming. None of them could expect what happened next. The Greeley Police Department officers arrived at the home about an hour away from Boulder at around 3:30 a.m. on April 18 to find the 24-year-old woman actively in labor after her water broke, according to a news release. Almost immediately after they called emergency medical personnel for assistance, they heard a faint cry.

Colorado officers responding to report of a screaming woman help deliver her triplets

Florida State

Sanford, FL

SANFORD, Fla. — A teenage gunman wounded 10 people when he opened fire early Sunday after fighting broke out during a private event at a Florida party venue, authorities said. A security guard tackled and disarmed the shooter almost immediately, and a second guard handcuffed him until sheriff’s deputies...

10 shot by teen gunman at Florida party venue, police say

Detroit, MI

Charter Township Of Clinton, MI

The owner of a Michigan business that exploded in March has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after a flying canister from the blast hit and killed a 19-year-old standing outside a quarter-mile away. Noor Kestou, the owner of Select Distributors, was arrested this week at the John F. Kennedy Airport...

Owner of Michigan warehouse in deadly blast is arrested at airport with one-way ticket

Cleveland, OH

Brown on Cleveland

Cleveland, OH. An Ohio man who killed his sister, her husband, and unborn niece was sentenced today in the Courtroom of Cuyahoga County Judge Rick Bell. Jason David Iverson was found guilty of three counts of aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault. As family members on both sides of the aisle awaited sentencing, the question was "why." What happened on September 4, 2023, caused so much turmoil that it cost the lives of three innocent people.

Three Life Sentences: Ohio Man's Brutal Family Murder

Indiana State

West Windsor Township, NJ

After Fran Smith vanished in 1991, her husband’s dark secrets began to unravel. In the three decades since, John Smith, 73, was convicted of killing his first wife in Ohio years earlier, in a murder authorities weren’t even aware of until they began investigating Fran’s disappearance. Fran’s...

2 wives, 2 murder charges: Convicted killer’s case dropped after judge tosses evidence from slaying kept hidden for years

Brooklyn, MD

Rosedale, MD

Dundalk, MD

Curtis Bay, MD

Halethorpe, MD

Parkville, MD

Towson, MD

Linthicum Heights, MD

Gwynn Oak, MD

Catonsville, MD

Essex, MD

Pikesville, MD

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Baltimore bridge collapse calls attention to the growing Latino labor force and the risks they face

Most of the workers killed or presumed dead following the Baltimore bridge collapse are originally from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico — illustrating the dangers...

Baltimore bridge collapse calls attention to the growing Latino labor force and the risks they face

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