A Santa Rosa native and prominent professional rock climber has been sentenced to life in federal prison for sexual assaults he committed at Yosemite National Park, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Charles Barrett, 40, was found guilty in February of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of …
Read More »A tip from an inmate and a subsequent confession from the suspected killer has led to the closure of a 32-year-old cold case, Arkansas State Police said. Rick Allen Headley, 48, was charged with first-degree murder in the 1991 death of 19-year-old Sabrina Lynn Underwood of Huntsville, state police said …
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A couple, their two children and three dogs were found fatally shot Sunday in a suburban Chicago home. Police are not investigating the incident as a murder-suicide and they are searching for the killer, CBS Chicago reports. The bodies were found about 8:40 p.m. in Romeoville by officers sent to …
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Police say the driver of a stolen car was taken into custody after it hit 10 people and other vehicles during Tuesday evening’s rush hour in Manhattan. Police say a license plate reader tipped officers to the whereabouts of the stolen Hyundai and they followed it at a low rate …
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Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995 after his escape from a prison work center. Jemaine Cannon, 51, received a lethal injection at 10 a.m. and was pronounced dead 13 minutes later at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. …
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Philadelphia authorities investigating a Fourth of July holiday shooting spree that left five people dead now say the gunman killed one of the victims almost two full days before the mass shooting. Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was arraigned Wednesday morning on five counts of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons …
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A former police chief in Maryland was sentenced Tuesday to eight life sentences plus 75 years for setting a series of 12 fires targeting people who he felt had wronged him, CBS Baltimore reported. Former Laurel Police Chief David Crawford’s sentences are concurrent, so his actual prison sentence is …
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Three children and three adults were found dead after Tennessee authorities responded to a reported shooting at a home that was set on fire Thursday. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the person believed to be responsible for the rampage in Sequatchie, west of Chattanooga, was among the dead. The …
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Kansas police announced the arrest of two suspects allegedly involved in the May 3 shooting of a 6-year-old boy. Authorities took Lakevis Sloan, 20, and an unnamed 17-year-old male, both residents of Kansas City, Kansas, into custody on Tuesday when they got off a Greyhound bus in Sioux Falls, South …
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A New Mexico teenage mother was sentenced Monday to a mandatory 18 years in prison for tossing her newborn son into a trash dumpster behind a shopping center, but a state district judge cited mental health concerns and the defendant’s age in suspending two years of the punishment. Jurors convicted Alexis …
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