Police say the case began with a missing-child report late Friday and remains under active investigation. PIEDMONT, Ala. — A 10-year-old girl was found dead late Friday inside a home in this Calhoun County city after police answered a missing-child call, and another juvenile was taken into custody and charged with murder, authorities said. The case has shaken a small east Alabama community because the victim was a child known at a local elementary school …
Police said the 2-year-old later showed signs of illness and was taken to a hospital after time in a garage that authorities said was not heated well enough. HARRISVILLE, W.Va. — A 20-year-old Ritchie County man has been charged in West Virginia after police said he left a 2-year-old boy alone in a poorly heated garage while he worked on his truck during bitter February weather. The case has drawn attention because investigators said the …
Wardens are still investigating who pulled the trigger after a 3-year-old and a 34-year-old mentor fired at movement in the woods during the youth-only season. BURLINGTON, Wis. — A 3-year-old taking part in Wisconsin’s youth turkey hunt wounded a 40-year-old man and a 7-year-old child after the youngster’s 34-year-old mentor helped aim and fire at movement in the woods, officials said. The shooting happened April 12 at Honey Creek Wildlife Area in Racine County, on …
Police said the 3-year-old boy is expected to survive, while the officers who fired were placed on leave pending a grand jury review. OMAHA, Neb. — Omaha police shot and killed a 31-year-old woman Tuesday after officers said she took a 3-year-old boy at knifepoint from his caretaker inside a Walmart and slashed him in the parking lot as they moved in to stop her. The attack at the store near South 72nd and Pine …
Prosecutors say the girl was sharing a seat belt with a sibling when she was thrown from the SUV on Interstate 17. PHOENIX, Ariz. — An Arizona mother was jailed after prosecutors accused her of speeding and weaving through traffic on Interstate 17 before a rollover crash killed her 9-year-old daughter and injured three other children riding with them in north Phoenix on Sunday morning. The case moved quickly from a highway fatality to a …
Fond du Lac County investigators say a parent had gone back inside for a forgotten item when the gun discharged in a driveway vehicle. LAMARTINE, Wis. — A 2-year-old boy died after he was shot Friday morning inside a vehicle parked in his family’s driveway in Fond du Lac County, where investigators say his 4-year-old sibling found a loaded gun while a parent briefly went back into the house. Authorities say the shooting happened in …
Police said two speeding drivers helped cause the collision, and both now face homicide-related charges after a Toyota Camry was torn apart at a Tucson intersection. TUCSON, Ariz. — A 3-year-old girl was killed and her pregnant mother was badly hurt after police said two speeding drivers raced into a Tucson intersection and slammed into the family’s car, splitting it in half in a crash that has now led to two arrests. The collision happened …
Authorities in eastern France say a 9-year-old child was malnourished and unable to walk when officers opened his father’s utility van. HAGENBACH, France — A 9-year-old boy was rescued in eastern France after authorities said he had been kept inside his father’s utility van since late 2024, leaving him malnourished, filthy and unable to walk when officers found him this month. The case has stunned the small village of Hagenbach, near France’s borders with Germany …
Sherry Magby faces six child-cruelty charges as investigators await medical findings in Douglasville. DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — A 1-year-old child has died after police in suburban Atlanta said six children were left alone for about 12 hours inside a foul-smelling home with little food, leading to criminal charges against Sherry Magby, a 37-year-old woman now being held in the Douglas County Jail. The case matters now because the child’s death has turned what began as a …
Court records say the case began with a red-light collision before dawn. FRESNO, Calif. — Authorities charged 22-year-old Timothy Seth Chavez after police said he ran a red light before dawn April 6, hit Martha Hernandez’s vehicle on McKinley Avenue near Highway 41 and sent it into the Dry Creek Canal, killing Hernandez and her 9-year-old son, Adrian. The deaths have shaken Fresno and nearby Clovis, where Hernandez worked as a nail artist and Adrian …