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Detectives named a former Florida deputy as the only probable suspect in the cold case rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1983, authorities announced Thursday. The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office said it is unable to pursue charges against the perpetrator because he died in 2008.  Witnesses originally …

A 25-year-old man was charged with murder this week after his 2-day-old baby went missing and her mother was fatally shot. In an affidavit filed Wednesday, police say Brandon Isabelle admitted to luring the child’s mother to a certain area before shooting her and throwing the baby, Kennedy Hoyle, into …

Skeletal remains found nearly 40 years ago have been identified as those of a guitarist who once played with the R&B group The O’Jays and also co-wrote a few of their songs, investigators said. Authorities used DNA and genealogical research to identify the remains of Frank “Frankie” Little Jr., which …

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem announced on Tuesday that she has proposed legislation to her state to ban women and girls from playing on female sports teams. The legislation is the latest in the governor’s efforts to issue the ban at both the high school and collegiate level.  The draft …

An economist will tell you it’s a hot labor market: A record number of people quit their jobs in September, and the U.S. is seeing record job openings as the economy chugs back to life from the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic drove millions of workers into early retirement — and …

A former Arizona nurse was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman at a long-term care facility where she later gave birth. Nathan Sutherland received the maximum punishment called for under his agreement to plead guilty to sexual assault.  He also received lifetime …

An Iowa man was convicted Tuesday of killing a man last year and leaving his body burning in a ditch. A jury found Steven Vogel, 32, of Grinnell, guilty of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of Michael Williams, 44, whose body was found burning in …

A grand jury in Westchester, New York, on Monday indicted Robert Durst on second-degree murder charges in the disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen, decades after she was last seen and after he was convicted in September of the 2000 murder of friend Susan Berman.  Durst faces a charge of …

Gas prices are going up, but that doesn’t seem to be deterring drivers. Though gas now costs $1.22 per gallon more than it did a year ago, according to industry experts, the American public is still filling its tank. “With the U.S. economy slowly recovering from the depths of the pandemic, …

A 20-year-old student at the University of Delaware has been arrested and charged for the alleged kidnapping, assault and strangling of an unnamed female student at an apartment last week. Brandon Freyre was charged with kidnapping second degree, assault second degree, strangulation, terroristic threatening, assault third degree, and criminal mischief. …