CRIME & SAFETY
Baltimore man arrested for murder in connection to man found dead in abandoned car
FREDERICK, Md. — A second man has been arrested in connection to a murder back in January of a Maryland man found dead in a car in Frederick County. On Tuesday, deputies located and arrested 23-year-old Alonzo Michael Epps, of Baltimore, for the murder of 65-year-old Brice Wendell Boots on Jan. 10 of this year. Epps is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, first-degree murder, kidnapping, and carjacking.
Blood taken from 2009 burglary scene linked to DNA from incarcerated Adams County man nearly 15 years later
NEW OXFORD, Pa. — An Adams County man already in prison in Huntingdon County is facing additional charges after investigators matched his DNA with blood left behind at the scene of a 2009 burglary, according to State Police. Daniel L. Knouse, 50, of New Oxford, is charged with burglary,...
Owner charged after police find dead cats, neglected dogs in Adams County house
ADAMS COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– The discovery of three dead cats along with two neglected dogs in an Adams County home has led to animal cruelty charges. Allison Ost, 27, of Fairfield, left the animals locked inside the home, alone, for weeks without proper food or water, according to charges filed by Carrol Valley Police. Adams […]
Small plane crash at Carroll County Regional Airport closes runway for five hours
A small plane crashed at the Carroll County Regional Airport in Westminster at about 6:40 p.m., May 1, shutting down the runway for five hours, according to Chris Winebrenner, communications manager for Carroll County. The crash caused no damage to the airport and no one was injured, Winebrenner said. The...
Preventing Targeted Violence
On April 10, a Michigan judge ruled that the parents of a child involved in a school shooting would spend 10 to 15 years in prison for their failure to stop the incident from happening. Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Matthews denied the sentence had anything to do with poor parenting but rather was the result of “repeated acts, or lack of acts, that could have halted an oncoming runaway train.” She was referring to the 2021 school shooting when the son killed four students and wounded seven other people. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2022.
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