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Two Bodies Are Found Near Courthouse

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A man and a woman were found dead near the Riverside County courthouse early Thursday after police answered a person-down call in downtown Riverside and opened a homicide investigation that remained unsolved by the end of the day. The killings quickly turned a central block of downtown into a taped-off crime scene in one of the city’s busiest government corridors. Riverside police said detectives were still trying to determine what happened, whether the two victims …

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12-Year-Old Girl Dies Following School Fight

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A 12-year-old Mason Creek Middle School student died Sunday, three days after a fight near a neighborhood bus stop in west Georgia, as police reviewed cellphone video, witness accounts and medical findings to determine whether the case will lead to criminal charges. Jada West’s death has drawn intense attention in Douglas County because the fight happened after school and off campus, but involved two students from the same middle school and unfolded in front of …

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Missing Dad Found Dead After Three-Month Search

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The body of Daniel “Dan” Davis, a 59-year-old father whose disappearance drew months of public search efforts across the Chicago suburbs, was found March 9 near the Blue Island-Alsip line, ending a case that began after a late-night crash in November. The discovery closed a widely followed search that had stretched for more than three months and generated repeated appeals from Davis’ family, local police agencies and volunteers. Davis vanished after a Nov. 24 crash …

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Expert Warn Common Travel Item Had Alarming Bacteria Levels

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A lab experiment released by travel provider JRPass found that passports carried far more bacterial growth than other common travel items, with samples from the document testing well above shoes, checked luggage, hand luggage, phones and coats. The finding is getting attention because it flips a familiar travel assumption. Many people worry most about shoes, suitcase wheels or airport trays, but the experiment pointed instead to the item travelers repeatedly hand over at check-in counters, …

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Day Care Worker Beat Boy With Chair Leg

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Police arrested a former childcare worker after investigators said surveillance video from a Las Cruces daycare showed her striking a young boy several times during about 10 minutes on Dec. 9, leading to seven felony child abuse charges. The case drew swift attention in southern New Mexico because the accusations are tied to a recorded classroom episode, not a disputed account with no video. Jennifer Hernandez, 27, a former Pre-K teacher at Discovery Development Center, …

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Teen Found Dead in Parked Car After Freak Incident

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An 18-year-old Dearborn woman who parked in a downtown Royal Oak garage on her way to cosmetology school died Jan. 14 after carbon monoxide entered her running car through a cracked exhaust manifold, according to family accounts that became public this week. Morgan’s death drew wide attention across southeast Michigan nearly two months later because it appeared to grow out of an ordinary winter trip, not a crash, assault or other obvious emergency. Her mother, …

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‘Ghostbusters’ and TV Actor, Dies at 65

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Jennifer Runyon, an actor whose credits ranged from the 1984 blockbuster “Ghostbusters” to the sitcom “Charles in Charge” and the TV movie “A Very Brady Christmas,” died March 6 at 65, according to statements from her family and friends. Her death drew broad notice this week because Runyon was a familiar face across some of the most durable pop culture titles of the 1980s. Family members confirmed her death publicly over the weekend, and entertainment …

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Dad Blows Up Home With Family of 5 Still Inside

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A western Pennsylvania man has been charged nearly four years after investigators say he intentionally caused a gas explosion that destroyed his family’s home and injured his partner and three young sons in Plum, just east of Pittsburgh. The charges against Jacob Rabb, 41, turned a long-unsolved neighborhood mystery into a criminal case this week. Police say the April 22, 2022, blast was not an accident but the result of a gas line being manually …

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Mom Shot Dead While Children Looked On

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San Mateo County judge has sentenced a Daly City man to 64 years to life in prison for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend outside her home nearly three years ago, in a case prosecutors said unfolded in front of the couple’s two small children. The sentence closes the trial stage of a 2023 killing that drew wide attention in the Bay Area because of the ages of the children and the way prosecutors said the shooting …

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Woman Plowed Into Crime Scene, Hit Body

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A 26-year-old woman was arrested after deputies said she drove around barricades at a fatal crash scene in west Bexar County on Feb. 27 and ran over the body of a man who had already been killed on State Highway 211. The case drew unusual attention because deputies said the woman, Tionne Spears, entered an active investigation while officers were measuring evidence and nearly struck two investigators. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said his office …

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