Warrant: Texas FedEx driver says he strangled girl in van

The welfare of the children is of utmost importance, and as parents, it is our duty to ensure that they are protected and have access to the care they need to grow and thrive. Unfortunately, in some cases, parents do not always provide this level of care and protection. This was the case for a 9-year-old girl who arrived at a local hospital pregnant.

Two children who were allegedly kidnapped by their mother 11 months ago from their home in Missouri have been found by police in a grocery store in Florida. Police in High Springs, 20 miles northwest of Gainesville, said they located Adrian Gilley, 12, sister Brooke, 11, and their mom Kristi Nicole Gilley, 36, shopping in a Winn Dixie store on 1 February after running a routine vehicle license check.The two children, whose descriptions had been listed on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database, were wearing disguises, police said. Ms Gilley, described as the children’s “non-custodial mother,”...

9-year-old Noah was having breakfast with his mom at Denny’s when he saw a police officer sitting on his own at a nearby table. Noah instantly became nervous, he knew he wanted to do something but wasn’t sure what.

Tristyn Bailey was supposed to help make a special Mother’s Day breakfast for mom Stacey on the day she was reported missing on 9 May 2021. Recalling the day at a memorial service exactly one year later, her father Forrest said that Tristyn’s sister Sophia had already begun preparing the meal before they noticed anything was awry.“Shortly after that, our day was shattered,” Forrest Bailey told the service, according to WJXT-TV.The family reported Tristyn, a 13-year-old seventh grade student at Patriot Oaks Academy, missing at around 10am to the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office who put out an urgent missing...

One of the victims in the Idaho murders reportedly fought the attacker before she was killed. Sources close to the investigation told NewsNation that slain University of Idaho Xana Kernodle had suffered wounds to her fingers after “repeatedly grabbing” the knife from the killer during the 13 November attack. Kernodle’s boyfriend Ethan Chapin and her roommates Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were also murdered that night. Washington State University criminology PhD student Bryan Kohberger has since been charged with the slayings. Last week, the Goncalves family’s attorney Shanon Gray appealed a gag order in the case that he described...

Three missing rappers whose bodies were found in an abandoned Michigan apartment had been shot multiple times in a targeted attack, police said Tuesday. Armani Kelly, 27, Montoya Givens, 31, and Dante Wicker, 31, disappeared on Jan. 21 when they were set to perform at a show that was canceled at Lounge 31 in Detroit. Their bodies were found last week in an apartment basement.

The man who faces charges stemming from a string of suspicious activities at the Dallas Zoo allegedly admitted to stealing two tamarin monkeys and trying to steal the clouded snow leopard last month, according to arrest warrant affidavits. Davion Irvin also told police that he wants to return to the...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A prosecutor has told a jury that a former principal of a ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls school in the Australian city of Melbourne molested three sisters. Malka Leifer has pleaded not guilty in the Victoria state County Court to 29 sexual offenses that were allegedly committed at the Adass Israel School and other places between 2003 and 2007. Prosecutor Justin Lewis told the jury Wednesday that the school was excited by Tel Aviv-born Leifer’s arrival from Israel in 2001. He said she came to the school with a “good reputation.” The sisters were aged around 12, 14 and 16 then. The trial is scheduled to take six weeks.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have arrested an anesthesiologist they blame for an outbreak of meningitis that has killed 35 patients and sickened 79. The chief prosecutor in the northern state of Durango alleges the anesthesiologist used contaminated morphine. Prosecutor Sonia de la Garza said Tuesday that the doctor used “improper procedures” in administering spinal blocks, mainly to pregnant women. The doctor’s name was not released. Prosecutors say he apparently carried his own morphine from one private hospital to another, spreading a fungal infection that contaminated the medication at the first clinic. The state health inspector and an employee of his agency have been arrested on charges of failing to provide adequate oversight.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A court in Nicaragua has sentenced five Roman Catholic priests to 10 years in prison after convicting them of conspiracy. The sentences for four priests announced Monday are just the latest chapter in President Daniel Ortega’s crackdown on the church. All four priests had worked with Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who is under house arrest and set to be sentenced soon. In addition to the conspiracy charge, Álvarez has been charged with “damaging the Nicaraguan government and society.” A human rights group in the country is denouncing the sentences. A fifth priest was sentened Sunday.