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Two dead after officer-involved shooting, fire, in Tabor City
  ABOR CITY - A man wanted for murder in Loris, S.C., was shot and killed by two Columbus County Sheriff's deputies this morning following a chase and shootout, authorities said. An unidentified person also was found dead this morning following a house fire that appears to have been set during lawmen's pursuit of the suspect, officials said. Dion Julius Brown, 22, of Miller Road in Tabor City, was killed after 2 a.m. by deputies after Brown fired a gun at them. Police had been looking for Brown after an armed robbery Sunday at Hill's grocery store in Loris, S.C. Mack Norris of Tabor City, the store's assistant manager, was killed during the break-in. Brown was a former employee of the grocery store, a search warrant obtained by the Columbus County Sheriff's Office said. Warrants had been obtained Monday charging Brown with murder, armed robbery, burglary in the second degree, and possession of a weapon while in the commission of a felony robbery, said Chief Saundra Rhodes of the Horry County Police Department. Detectives in Horry County learned that Brown was in the Tabor City area and sought assistance from the Columbus County Sheriff's Office in locating him, District Attorney Jon David said. - (Black-on-white) |
PORTSMOUTH, OH - A man was arrested Tuesday, April 29, in a cold case going back three years. Donald Richardson Jr., 52, of Portsmouth, Ohio was arrested in connection with the murder of Donald Kidd of Ashland, Kentucky. Richardson Jr. is charged with six felonies including murder, felonious assault, arson, abuse of a corpse, and two counts of tampering with evidence. Kidd's body was found inside his car after it was set on fire on the 1000 block of 15th Street. An autopsy revealed Kidd died from a gunshot wound, not due to a fire. Richardson is being held at the Scioto County Jail. Kidd was a former car salesman at Superior Chrysler Dodge Jeep in Ashland. - (Black-on-white)
DOTHAN, Alabama -- Dothan police arrested a woman accused of jumping and stabbing a woman inside a Dothan Dollar General store for no apparent reason. Police received a tip through Crime Stoppers that led to the arrest of Phyllis Bennett, 49, of Dothan, Dothan police stated in a release. Bennett is accused of jumping a woman she didn’t know and stabbing her with an edged weapon in an aisle in the 2505 Montgomery Highway store on April 28. The attack, which was captured on surveillance cameras, appears to be a random act with no motive. 
A Lindenwold man who appealed the life sentenced he received for the stabbing death of his child's mother ended up with the same sentence on Friday. Troy Whye, 41, of Lindenwold, was sentenced Friday to a life term, the equivalent of 75 years, for killing 22-year-old 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 60-year-old Jacksonville man was sentenced Friday afternoon to life in prison, with a 15-year minimum mandatory as a habitual violent felony offender, on each of the three counts he was convicted of in March. Wilson Holmes was found guilty of kidnapping and two counts of sexual battery. The sentences run concurrently. In January 1999, Holmes attacked the victim as she was leaving the post office. Holmes dragged the woman back inside the building and repeatedly beat and choked her. The woman attempted to fight back by biting Holmes but lost consciousness during the attack. Holmes then raped the woman before fleeing the scene.
Newport News, Va. – A 56-year-old man has been arrested for stalking and assault after two elementary school girls reported being approached at the bus stop. Newport News Police say the
A convicted sex offender pleaded not guilty Thursday to second-degree rape in connection with an attack on a woman at a Tacoma bus stop. Pierce County Superior Court Commissioner Meagan Foley ordered Harvey Johnson, 49, held without bail. Johnson allegedly assaulted a woman Aug. 1 as she waited for the bus at S. 74th and Cedar streets. He dragged her into a nearby wooded area, punched her several times as she struggled and assaulted her, according to charging papers. The victim went to the hospital the following day and had a rape exam done. In December, DNA testing linked Johnson to the sexual assault. 
CLEVELAND - The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office's Cold Case Task Force has secured its 100th indictment since it was organized in 2013, the office announced today. Larry McGowan was indicted for five cold case rapes and for the murder of one of those victims. “McGowan is a one-man crime wave, a cold-blooded killer and a psychopath who destroys human lives,” said Prosecutor McGinty. “One thing our Task Force has learned in this DNA Cold Case effort is that there are many active serial rapists. The question is how many more McGowans are out there.” 
About 4 1/2 years after a vicious gang rape unnerved the Five Points community and the case went cold, a DNA match led Jacksonville police to three suspects. Rakeem Saleem Mitchner, 24, Martin Anthony King, 20, and Stanley Theodore Armitage, 20, have all been arrested in the October 2009 assault. According to police reports, a woman was bicycling in the 1500 block of Goodwin Street about 8 p.m. when she was attacked by three young men. Armitage and King were arrested in January and Mitchner in March. The arrests were not announced by the Sheriff’s Office until the Times-Union inquiries this week.
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department arrested two people for the alleged human trafficking. Devaun Canion, 21, and his girlfriend Kamille Clarke, 19, were arrested May 1. According to a complaint affidavit, an undercover member of the department acted as a 
He's about 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, with gold teeth that could be a clip-on grill. He also has some type of growth or knot on his cheek, which was not included in the police sketch.
Police said the suspect was described as a black man in his 20s, with short hair, five foot eight inches tall and weighing 150 to 180 pounds; police also said he was wearing a tan coat and white basketball shorts. 
HOUSTON - A wanted criminal with an insatiable appetite for stolen food is wreaking havoc at two chicken shacks in southeast Houston. "He's most likely selling it to other restaurants, smaller type restaurants," said Houston Police Department Investigative First Responder Cory Sharp. Since March 5, the unidentified thief has burglarized the 
A Pennsylvania inmate who was a 14-year-old gang member when he fatally shot another teenager has lost his bid for a sentence reduction. Qu'eed Batts, 22, was sentenced Friday morning to life in prison without parole. Batts was convicted in the 2006 shooting death of 16-year-old 
The pregnant Florida woman who was shot in the stomach on April 23 over a Facebook argument has lost her baby. 
A man accused of shooting
to get a look at the financial records of defunct nonprofit at the center of their claims that Jerry Mondesire, longtime president of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania NAACP branches, has mishandled the local chapter’s finances. Three weeks ago, the NAACP’s national office informed Mondesire, Booker, Morris and a third board member, Donald “Ducky” Birts, that they were all suspended.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The fire marshal of Jacksonville Fire-Rescue Division is under investigation for making racist remarks about people attending last weekend's Welcome to Rockville concert. According to an email to the city, Division Chief Kevin Jones used a racial slur -- the N word -- to describe people going to the music festival held at Metro Park. According to the complaint, Jones was going over the number of people allowed in the park when he allegedly said: "We can't allow more than 20,000 people in the park and if those ------- try to put more than that in the park, they will have to deal with me."
The man initially gave the officer his debit card for identification and then gave him his Mexican ID card, admitting that he had been in the U.S. illegally for nine years. The officer noticed that his eyes were glassy and red and his breath smelled of intoxicants and observed numerous beer cans in plain view throughout the car. The man said he had six or eight beers. His license plate had expired in 2012. His first blood alcohol level reading was 0.20 percent. Under state law, a person with a level of 0.08 percent can be prosecuted for drunken driving. His bond was set at $200 for the OWI. He was taken to the police station. 
A taxi driver was convicted yesterday of the knifepoint rape of a woman who had flagged him down to take her from Williamsburg to her East Village apartment and fell asleep in his yellow cab. The victim woke up to a nightmare. “I was blindfolded. He put something in my mouth to gag it,’’ the woman told a rapt jury in Brooklyn Supreme Court. 
Alabama - Fairfield police have charged one man and arrested another in connection with the case of a Pinson woman found dumped and torched on April 19. Kenneth Childers, 27, is charged with Abuse of a Corpse, said Fairfield Police Chief Leon Davis. Childers is being held in the Jefferson County Jail. 
FAIRFIELD — A second man has been charged in the April 19 death of a Pinson woman. Nathaniel Fortune, 31, of Birmingham was charged with abuse of a corpse in the death of 22-year-old Megan Elizabeth Monroe, whose body was discovered April 19 burned behind an empty house in Fairfield. It’s believed Monroe died somewhere else and was dumped behind the house. A cause of death has not been ruled. Earlier this week, 27-year-old Kenneth Childers was charged with abuse of a corpse. Fortune was arrested Tuesday when police conducted a search warrant at a home in West End. He was in the Jefferson County Jail on Wednesday.
INDIANAPOLIS — Police have made an arrest in the case where a man was tied up and shot to death but wasn’t immediately identified. 
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It didn't take long for charges to be re-filed against two men accused in a shootout on Charleston's West Side. During a hearing Thursday afternoon, Magistrate Tim Halloran said there was no probable cause in the case against Kenneth Gooden and Carlos Short. He dismissed the charges of malicious wounding that the men were facing. Charleston Police have re-filed the charges in the case and are going to the jail to re-arrest the men. They will be taken to magistrate court to be re-arraigned on the charges. Both were arrested last week after a shootout on Glenwood Street in Charleston. 
Years before Calvin Ray Jr. allegedly killed his parents with samurai swords, DeKalb SWAT units were called to the couple’s Pheasant Drive home. After an aggravated assault incident in 2007, Ray fled to the home and held police at bay for hours. A family member stopped by to visit around 4 p.m. and found the couple dead, he said. The two, a 
SARASOTA , Fla -- A Florida man who was accused of dumping hot sauce on his girlfriend’s puppy because he got annoyed at its yelping was sentenced to a year in county jail. Ephrian Myles was given his sentence, which also includes 18 months of probation, after he entered a no contest plea on a felony charge of aggravated animal cruelty. Circuit Judge Donna Berlin also sentenced Myles to complete an anger management course and ruled that he can no longer keep a pet or live at a house with an animal. 
NEW ORLEANS —Covington police said an 18-year-old Hammond man was arrested in connection with the aggravated rape of a 
A 20-year-old man is in jail after police said he had repeated sex with a
Police have arrested the husband of a New Orleans cheerleading coach accused of raping a 
The Dalton Police Department is hoping the public can help locate Carl Edward Belgon, 21. Belgon is wanted for child molestation and statutory rape. His last known address was 122 Denali Drive in Calhoun. Investigators said the incident happened April 9th. They say a
In the years after the Hilgers adopted them, according to the lawsuit, both boys sexually molested one of the Hilgers' younger daughters, 
WILMINGTON, NC -- The search for a missing woman ended last night, but not the way family and friends had hoped. Last night police accused James Bradley, who was convicted of a 1988 murder, of killing 
SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH - Shaker Heights Police are looking for a suspect accused of attacking and robbing a 
CINCINNATI —It's taken almost two years, but the case involving the teens who beat up a man because they were bored is finally over. Thursday morning, a judge sentenced the final 16-year-old -- convicted in the beating of 
"They were sorry, not only because they got in trouble (but) because they're not bad people," said Latasha Alford, whose twin sons were charged in the attack. 
MELILLA, Spain — Around 700 African migrants charged Spain's barbed-wire border fences Thursday in the country's North African enclave of Melilla, clashing with Spanish and Moroccan border police. Spain said 140 of the migrants managed to enter Spanish territory despite the efforts of the border police. 
ALTON, IL – Police have charged Eddie Jirdon with bigamy, after discovering he may have had two wives at the same time. 
Des Moines police have issued an arrest warrant for a basketball coach. Glendon Alexander operates ABCD Basketball Academy, a prep camp for young men hoping to play Division One basketball. But several people said Alexander failed to deliver on his promises costing them thousands of dollars. The landlord of the property where the players stayed says he didn’t pay rent, and the church that sold him a van says the check bounced. As a result, Alexander is now charged with theft.
Leon Jenkins, the branch president who became a judge in a district court of Detroit in 1983, was removed from the bench in 1991 and then disbarred in Michigan in 1994 for accepting bribes to dismiss traffic citations, misstating his address to lower his insurance premiums, soliciting a person to commit perjury and other ethical violations. The Supreme Court of Michigan, which oversaw Mr. Jenkins’s work, conducted its own investigation and concluded that from 1984 to 1987 Mr. Jenkins “systematically and routinely sold his office and his public trust.” The high court removed him from the bench and he was subsequently disbarred in the state.
GEORGETOWN – A handyman who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 70-year-old woman in his neighborhood got two life sentences and an additional 75-year sentence. Michael D. Purnell, 45, was convicted in March of second-degree murder, first-degree rape, burglary and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony. Purnell was arrested in November 2011 after neighbors discovered 
The state of Oklahoma botched one execution and was forced to call off another on Tuesday when a disputed cocktail of drugs failed to kill a condemned prisoner who was left writhing on the gurney. After the failure of a 20-minute attempt to execute him, Clayton Lockett was left to die of a heart attack in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester. A lawyer said Lockett had effectively been "tortured to death". For three minutes after the first drugs were delivered Lockett struggled violently, groaned and writhed, lifting his shoulders and head from the gurney. Some 16 minutes after the execution began, and without Lockett being declared dead, the blinds separating the chamber from the viewing room were closed. The process was called off shortly afterwards. Lockett died 43 minutes after the first executions drugs were adminsitered. The execution of Charles Warner, scheduled for 8pm local time, was then postponed. Both were due to have been carried out with a drug cocktail using dosages never before tried in American executions. Lockett, 38, was convicted of the killing of 19-year-old, 
Murder charges have been issued against two men in connection with the death of two Westland teenagers fatally shot in 2012. Fredrick Young, 25 of Detroit and Felando Hunter, 23 of Jackson are charged with first-degree murder, felony murder, torture, armed robbery, unlawful imprisonment and felony firearm. Young also faces a charge of possession of a firearm by a felon. 
GRETNA, La. -- Three men are behind bars suspected of attempting to rob and then shooting and killeding 
AVONDALE, Ariz. - Police say a valley man threatened to kill his wife, telling his victim "Islamic Law" gave him the right to kill her. 
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Davan Bynum and Resean Lindsay just became two of the youngest rape suspects ever arrested by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. The two friends just turned 16 in January. Sunday night, a 23-year-old woman was walking home after visiting one of the bars near The Plaza, as she got to Briar Creek Road she encountered the two teens. "They engaged her in conversation and shortly after that, they accosted her and sexually assaulted her," said the captain. Investigators say that Bynum and Lindsay kidnapped the victim and held her against her will for a couple of hours. 
Lobo cornerback SaQwan Edwards was the third man in the blue BMW, UNM police say. Edwards, a UNM senior-to-be, was arrested Tuesday on two counts of rape in connection with an April 13 incident that also led to the arrest of Lobo football teammate Crusoe Gongbay. Ryan Ruff, a former UNM student but not a football player, also was arrested.
Jury deliberations were expected to begin Wednesday in the case of three men charged in the stabbing and attempted carjacking of Pittsburgh Steelers lineman 
A Cobb County teenager was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for beating a
A Newark woman who allegedly threw a small dog into traffic during a dispute over a parking spot has been indicted on animal cruelty charges. Haniyyah Barnes, 25, also faces charges of burglary, theft and criminal mischief in the indictment handed up Wednesday by an Essex County grand jury. Prosecutors say Barnes kicked in the door of a neighbor's home and threatened and assaulted a person there. When the family's Shih Tzu (named 
Gov. Tom Corbett has signed an execution warrant for a man convicted of first-degree murder in the 2007 shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer. Twenty-seven-year-old Lewis Jordan, a.k.a. John Lewis was sentenced to death by a Philadelphia jury in 
SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. —Police in South Daytona announced on Tuesday the arrests of three people, all relatives, in connection to the death of a man found in an apartment complex laundry room. Officials said 67-year-old 
Two very different stories emerged during closing arguments in the trial of a man accused of a 2009 Verona murder. Tariq Kyam, formerly known as Raymond Perry, is accused of shooting 
BALTIMORE —John Booth-El had been on death row for almost three decades for the grisly killing of an elderly couple in Baltimore. Now his family and his victims’ loved ones are finally finding closure in his death. he murders, 31 years ago, shook Baltimore to the core. 
SPOKANE, Wash. - 
ABERDEEN, Md. — A sixteen-year-old narrowly avoided death when he was struck by a car fleeing police in Harford County. It was a bizarre police chase. The suspect’s vehicle hit a teen and at least two other cars trying to get away. That teen,
HARTFORD, Conn. — An ex-girlfriend of former NFL defensive end Hugh Douglas accused him in a new lawsuit of assaulting her multiple times, including an encounter at a Connecticut hotel last year that resulted in his arrest but no jail time. 
A Philadelphia man will stand trial after he was accused of raping his own foster daughter. Walter Scott, 59, was arrested last year after he allegedly raped his 7-year-old foster daughter on two separate occasions. 
A Raceland man convicted in early April of aggravated rape and armed robbery was sentenced Monday to life plus 104 years in prison. Jerry Cleveland Jr., 18, had been convicted of the aggravated rape of a Raceland woman in 2012. He also robbed the victim at gunpoint. Cleveland was accused of participating in the home invasion and rape of a woman in her home on St. Louis Street in Raceland. Three suspects broke into the victim's home on March 7, 2012, while she was alone with her 3-year-old child. Co-defendant Darrel Thomas was previously sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty and agreeing to testify at trial against Cleveland. The third suspect, Devon Richard, received 35 years in prison, also after pleading guilty.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has arrested a man and charged him with animal cruelty after he allegedly set his dog on fire. According to JSO’s Facebook page, detectives said 21-year-old Devron Quarterman was arrested Sunday after his mother called police. The mom told them she was inside cooking and her son was with the dog outside when she heard the dog crying. When she went outside, the mother saw the dog rolling around in the dirt and hooked to a chain in the front yard. When she grabbed the dog its fur fell off. She said the fur also smelled like gas and was burned. Police said they obtained a lighter from Quarterman's pocket.
FRESNO, Calif. -- A man is dead after being shot in the head at a Northwest Fresno apartment on Friday, and the man accused of accidentally shooting him is under arrest. Coroner's officials have identified the victim as 
Rochester Police have identified the homicide victim as 
DETROIT - The trial dates have been set for the four men charged in the vicious beating of 
SEALE, AL - An arrest has been made in the homicide investigation of 
More than eight months after a teen admitted to murdering a (White) 12-year-old girl, a judge decided to allow his mother to file a civil complaint against the boy and his father, seeking to hold them liable for potential damages in a lawsuit brought by the homicide victim's father. The Courier-Post reports a judge granted Anita Saunders request this week. Saunders is the mother of Justin Robinson, who pleaded guilty last August in adult court to aggravated manslaughter in the October 2012 slaying of 12-year-old 
A predatory pizza deliveryman pleaded guilty Tuesday to the 2012 rape of a former actress sleeping alongside her daughter in their luxury Upper West Side high rise. Baby-faced 
WACO - Some hardball questioning by the prosecution during the sentencing phase of Carnell Petetan Jr. trial led to some near fireworks by the defense. Petetan, who faces the death penalty for murdering his wife, sat stoic for most of the day as witnesses came up to testify against him, but that all changed as his mother spoke Wednesday afternoon. Two former cell mates of Petetan and another former inmate talked to the jury as well. All three men claimed to have been sexually assaulted while in prison by Petetan. They all said because of their short and weak stature, Petetan took advantage of them and threatened them to have sex with him or else he would hurt them or in some cases kill them. 
OAKLAND, Calif. — Two suspects have been arrested in the Oakland slaying of beloved dog walker who was killed last July as she drove down an East Oakland street, authorities announced Thursday. The Alameda County District Attorney's Office filed murder charges against Stephon Lee and 21-year-old Mario Floyd in the death of 66-year-old 
Jerry Temple is not the guy you want living in the apartment above you. Especially if you rely on a wheelchair, own a flat-screen TV and value your life. In Temple's case, the unlucky neighbor was 
A suspect has been arrested in connection to the April 15th death of 
Frederick Gray appeared smug, showing no remorse as he was sentenced to life in prison plus 52 years for shooting Wilmington Police Officer 
and Jared Wiggins
, were arrested and police are looking for a third suspect.
BLENDON TOWNSHIP, Ohio - A plea deal has been reached for the teen accused of murdering a jogger in a Blendon Township park. 55-year old 
A felony warrant was issued Thursday for the arrest of 18-year-old Adrian Lester, wanted for first-degree murder in the April 14th shooting death of 