Texas woman kidnapped 51 years ago is reunited with family through DNA testing

Remains found last week had been positively identified as those of a missing 4-year-old Oklahoma girl, Athena Brownfield. The Oklahoma Office of Chief Medical Examiner announced the positive identification on Jan. 26 after authorities recovered her remains on Jan. 17 from a site in rural Grady County. On Jan. 10,...

Law enforcement in Arizona are finally able to identify a woman found dead in 1971 after community members rallied together to help fund crucial DNA testing. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office was notified on Jan. 23, 1971, of remains found in a desert area close to U.S. Highway 93 on Hackberry Road. The body was in a white cotton canvas sack with the words "Deer-Pak Ames Harris Neville Co." printed on it in green, authorities said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

County Henrico in Virginia One man determined that performing his job duties as a police officer for Henrico County, Virginia, was insufficient. The county officer stopped his squad car when he noticed a driver in need, and he did something unexpected for Chy-Niece Thacker.

A Florida woman was arrested on the charge of child neglect after she allegedly left her boyfriend’s 7 –year-old son in a cold bath for 12 hours before his death. Reports say the woman who was later identified as 33-year-old Shantay Belcher made a 911 call and reported about her boyfriend’s 7-year-old son Kyrie Gordon was “Unresponsive”

Houston's Ehrhardt Elementary School found a black teen's body hanging from a tree. Harris County Sheriff's Office located the body in Ehrhardt Elementary School's parking lot.

“To know that whoever the perpetrators are, are still walking around doing whatever and we have no idea who they could be or who they are,” a family member told WWLTV. “So, for us to just come out and talk openly about it, it’s frightening.”

A man who has taken in his sister, after her father and stepmother tragically passed away, has been asked by Child Protective Services to also take in a 5-year-old to whom he has no blood relation. He has refused to do so, and has been harassed by others for his choice, turning to Reddit to find out whether or not he’s wrong for his decision.

CNN's Nick Valencia reports on the arrest of 5 Memphis police officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols and speaks with Bennie Cobb, a family friend of one of the officers.

The five police officers are Black. Does it matter? Experts say the race of the victim in police-involved shootings is far more important.

Body camera video appears to show Memphis police officers pepper spraying Tyre Nichols while he was on the ground where he is heard shouting for his mother. Jan. 28, 2023.

An elderly Las Vegas couple were found dead in California's Death Valley National Park in what authorities said Wednesday was a murder-suicide. Paul Fischer, 73, and Mary Fischer, 72, were found dead Jan. 13 after Paul Fischer called the Inyo County Sheriff's Office to report that he had just killed his wife and planned to kill himself, according to information released by the National Park Service.

A North Carolina couple are accused of performing an amateur exorcism on their 4-year-old son, who later died. Joseph Paul “Joe” Wilson, 41, and Jodi Ann Wilson, 38, of Mount Airy, were arrested Jan. 13 on accusations their actions led to the death of their son, Skyler Wilson. They are being held at the Surry County Detention Center under no bond.

In 2010, Sam Ballard was a 19-year-old Australian teen who was sitting around and drinking with his "mates" when a slug crawled across the patio of his friend's home. The young men who were drinking immediately brought up the conversation about someone eating the slug.

A horrified man has turned to Reddit after discovering his wife told his stepchildren that their sick father had died and was ‘never coming’ to see them ever again. He felt distraught after learning this, as the children were obviously devastated. He’s now unsure of how to proceed in his marriage after making a shocking decision behind his wife’s back.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — As their son lay bleeding from mortal injuries, the family of Tyre Nichols said Friday not only did police fail to render aid — they callously smoked cigarettes in the moments following the fatal beatdown. The family’s comments came hours before police were set to...

Two of the five former Memphis police officers arrested in the killing of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols had been on the job for a couple of years, and the others no more than six years. And some of the officers had been part of a new anti-violence unit called Scorpion, which stands for Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods, prosecutors confirmed.

Just three days after a Massachusetts mother allegedly killed two of her young children, a third child of hers has died. Lindsay Clancy, 32, had already been accused of killing her 5-year-old and 3-year-old children in her Duxbury, Massachusetts, home on Jan. 24, and is expected to face homicide charges for both of their deaths, according to authorities.

Video released by authorities in Memphis Friday shows police officers beating Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop that ended with his hospitalization and death. The four videos released by the Memphis Police Department include video from surveillance and body worn cameras. The city’s top police official, Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis, has...

Tyre Nichols was beaten by five former police officers who have been charged with second-degree murder. “This kind of police interaction that leads to avoidable or unnecessary fatalities is much less about color or complexion and much more a result of … the toxicity that exists in modern-day policing,” retired NYPD detective and Director of the Black Law Enforcement Alliance Memphis Marq Claxton said.Jan. 27, 2023.

The victim in a Dec. 23 shooting near 27th Avenue and Indian School Road was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Jan. 17, police said. Phoenix Police Department identified the victim as 51-year-old Shawn Hall. ...