FERGUSON, Mo. — Police began using tear gas to disperse crowds early Monday morning in suburban St. Louis after multiple stores were vandalized and looted Sunday night. Crowds became unruly at a vigil for an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by police. People smashed car windows and carried away armloads of looted goods from stores in Ferguson and Dellwood after the vigil for Michael Brown, 18, who died Saturday after being shot multiple times by a Ferguson police officer. Among other businesses, a QuikTrip convenience store and a nearby liquor store were damaged and looted. A fire was set behind the liquor store, according to reporters on the scene. There were multiple reports of gunfire. Alderman Antonio French of the 21st Ward in St. Louis, posted several Vine videos on Twitter Sunday night showing looters smashing windows and carrying off goods. A little after midnight he tweeted that the looting had spread to neighboring Dellwood. Ferguson police called in an extra 60 officers as well as police from all surrounding jurisdictions. St. Louis city police were assisting by answering calls in St. Louis County, and a St. Louis SWAT team was staging.
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A man stabbed his wife to death in a jealous rage Saturday outside a relative’s Bronx home, where the couple had tried to smooth over their rocky marriage, witnesses and police sources said. Wife 
A 22-year-old Overland Park man has been charged with raping an Olathe woman in her apartment last month and kidnapping and attempting to rape another woman late last year. Johnson County prosecutors charged Jesse M. Akins III with 11 felony counts stemming from the two attacks that occurred about 2 miles apart along the 119th Street corridor in Olathe. Akins was arrested Thursday and booked into the Johnson County Jail, where he was being held on a bond of $2 million. 
A former technician at the the Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute for sexually assaulting a female patient there, according to a spokesperson with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. At the request of the Chattanooga Police Department, investigators with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the TBI began investigating Marcus Dewayne Benford after the woman told police that she had sex with him. Benford was a technician at Moccasin Bend at that time. The victim stated she had sexual intercourse with Benford on April 21, 2013, and reported it to police the following day.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest of a Dover-area man wanted in an early-morning carjacking Monday and in an unrelated rape case, police said. Robert Sanders, 21, faces charges of first-degree carjacking, possession of a firearm during a felony, carrying a concealed deadly weapon and four counts of fourth-degree rape, said Cpl. Mark Hoffman. The carjacking occurred about 4 a.m. in the Tudor Industrial Park on S. Little Creek Road.
A serial sex offender already serving time will spend an extra nine to 25 additional years in prison for rape. Roy Owens, 47, has been indicted on rape charges three times before his DNA connected him to this crime. Owens is serving time for a 2011 aggravated burglary conviction after he broke into a house and attempted to take the clothes off a woman. His five year sentence for that offense will end in March 2016. Most recently, DNA detected in a rape kit and matched to Owens by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation implicated him in the 1993 rape of an 18-year-old girl on Pratt Avenue in Cleveland. 
DETECTIVES believe this man could hold key information about sex attacks on two women. They have issued this CCTV picture and a video of a man they wish to speak to in connection with the separate attacks within 40 minutes of each other. The culprit is described as black, in his 20s, and was wearing a white top and flip flops and carrying a man bag. 
They were the ultimate symbol of the lawlessness and blight of the 1980s and early 1990s — and now they’re making a comeback. Squeegee men are menacing motorists across New York City, including spots near the Holland, Lincoln and Queens-Midtown tunnels, as well as the Queensboro Bridge, The Post has learned. 
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. – A Maryland jury has awarded a white teacher $350,000 in damages for being discriminated against by his former principal, an African-American woman. The Washington Post reports teacher
TRENTON - A city couple was arrested and charged with child endangerment Saturday after they left their four young children home alone and a 4-year-old girl fell out of a second-floor window. According to law enforcement, around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, police were dispatched to the 700 block of Centre Street after someone called emergency 911 and reported that a group of young children were home alone, and that a young girl had fallen out of a window. When officers arrived on-scene, police say, they found that four children had been left home alone: a 10-year-old female, a 7-year-old male, a 4-year-old female and a 3-year-old male. The girl’s parents, Sherell Thom, 27, and Rashaud Thom, 28, are each charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child.
A woman who threw hot cooking oil on her husband and chased him with a hand ax around their home after he asked for a divorce is now headed to prison. Mauvette Mattadeen received a six-year sentence Friday and will be deported to her native Jamaica once she's freed from prison. A Somerset County jury had convicted her in June of aggravated assault, but cleared her of attempted murder charges stemming from the April 2012 attack. The couple is no longer together.
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The NYPD is making good on its pledge to rid Times Square of its costumed super-zeroes — busting four more menaces in just 30 minutes over the weekend. Two Iron Men, a Spider-Man and an Elmo were accused of blocking pedestrians, while Spider-Man also grabbed a passerby to pose for a picture, cops said. The busts came just hours after cops started handing out fliers telling visitors to the Crossroads of the World that they don’t have to pay for photos. The four rogue characters were charged with disorderly conduct late Saturday, with “Spider-Man” 
Toronto police have arrested a man wanted in connection with four separate sexual assaults inside the Fairview Mall Wednesday evening. Police say that between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Wednesday, a man sexually assaulted three women and a girl. Police put out an appeal to the public in locating a suspect, including photos from a security camera, and thanks to tips were able to apprehend a suspect. 
RAMAPO A Monsey rabbi and school principal was arrested Monday by Ramapo police after an investigation led by the Rockland District Attorney's Office special unit that deals with sex crimes against children. The exact charges against Gavriel Bodenheimer were unclear. . Bodenheimer, 71, was being processed Monday afternoon at the Rockland County jail, Ascher said. He said he has been told the arraignment and unsealing of the indictment will take place Tuesday morning. Bodenheimer is principal of 
NEW CITY - A New Square rabbi accused of sexually abusing a child multiple times pleaded not guilty in Rockland County Court today. Rabbi 
LOWELL – Two Lowell brothers were found shot to death early Sunday morning and police are searching for a suspect. Lowell police responded to a call about 2:30 a.m. for medical assistance at 105 Andrews St. and found two men with apparent gunshot wounds, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office reported.
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Dallas police say they caught a 30-year-old felon trying to sell a 
A Los Angeles police detective was sentenced Friday to 180 days in jail and must resign from the force after assaulting three San Fernando Valley massage parlor workers while on the job. Oris Pace was also placed on formal probation for three years following charges that he forced the women at separate parlors to undress and then fondled their bodies, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. In some cases he undressed the women, police said.
A black man has been arrested in connection with an alleged rape occurring last month. Antonio Green, 24, was taken into custody by the Shreveport police on Friday without incident and booked into the Shreveport City Jail on an outstanding arrest warrant. Green is charged with one count of molestation of a juvenile, one count of forcible rape, and one count of sexual battery. His bond has been set at $300,000. Green is accused of sexually assaulting 
A man has been arrested after raping and impregnating a 13-year-old girl. Police say Lexington's Demetrius Hill, 35, has been charged with raping a 
ST PETERSBURG, FL - St. Petersburg Police are looking for a man accused of sexually assaulting a 
ORLANDO, Fla. - A 49-year-old Walt Disney World custodian was arrested Friday on allegations of holding a coworker against her will and sexually battering her in a closet at their workplace. Gideon Paul Hunte, of Kissimmee, was arrested on charges of kidnapping and sexual battery. According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, the woman said that Hunte, whom she only knew from seeing him at work, pinned her against a wall in a custodial closet on Thursday evening and forced her onto her knees while attacking her.
CINCINNATI —A Clifton man was arrested Thursday after his neighbor accused him of fondling her while she slept. Police said David McMullen snuck into the woman’s apartment on Lafayette Avenue on Tuesday night. The woman said she woke up to McMullen standing over her bed. Investigators said the woman had forgotten to lock her door. 
NEW YORK — Police late Friday were searching for a man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman in the hallway of a classroom building at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. The incident happened around 8:40 a.m. Friday, inside the chemistry building at the school in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, police said. The 46-year-old woman was cleaning the hallway floors in the building, when the man walked up, took out his penis, and started masturbating in front of her, police said. The suspect then ran off, police said. The suspect was described as a black male standing about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds, with a Caesar haircut and a dark complexion.
CROWN HEIGHTS -- Police are searching for a man caught by surveillance cameras when he tried to rape a woman inside her Brooklyn apartment building. It happened early Saturday morning in Crown Heights. Police say the suspect tried to talk to a 30-year old woman in the third floor stairwell of her building before pushing her to the ground and trying to rape her. She fought him off and he ran away. The suspect is described as a black male, in his 20's, approximately 5'9", and 130 Lbs. The suspect was clean shaven, with close-cut hair and wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.
A man was charged in connection with an attempted sexual assault on the Southwest Side Friday morning. Lemar Hardy, 25, of the 2700 block of West 37th Place, was charged with one count of attempted criminal sexual assault, police announced early Saturday. Prosecutors said he tackled her to the ground and threatened to kill her if she didn’t show him her vagina. He then pulled down his shorts and attempted to pull down her dress.
FERGUSON, Mo. — At a news conference Sunday, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the fatal shooting of a black teenager came after an altercation with police. On Saturday, 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. Belmar said the incident started when 
MARTINEZ -- An Antioch man who worked as a parks attendant for the city of Oakland is facing sexual assault charges alleging that he raped and molested a 
Philadelphia police are searching for the heartless thug who was caught on tape stealing money from an elderly woman using an ATM. The suspect is described as a black male, 5’8”-5’10”, 175-185 lbs., with a medium build. He was wearing a white a t-shirt and black shorts. 
CHICAGO – A 66-year-old man Cook County prosecutors described as a “member of the clergy” allegedly gave a minor a copy of the Kama Sutra and said he kissed her because she was “shy” and he “wanted her to be more confident.” Arthur Cox, who was wearing a T-shirt in bond court that read: “God has my back,” allegedly attacked the 
Police arrested a 36-year-old man after linking him to six burglaries in two different northern Delaware communities. New Castle County Police identified William Martin, of the 100 block of Faraday Court in Bear, Del., as a suspect after he was caught on surveillance video using a credit card stolen from the home of one of the victims. Detectives executed a search warrant at Martin's home, where he was arrested Friday without incident. 
The alleged gunman who shot two people near a popular music festival in Bethlehem, Pa. is on the loose. Police identified 17-year-old 
ARKADELPHIA, AR - CLARK COUNTY, AR - Riakos Lizana, 21, changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences during a hearing by Clark County Circuit Judge Robert McCallum on Friday. During the change in plea Lizana admitted he caused the deaths of 
OAKLAND PARK, Fla. - A man has been arrested in Oakland Park in connection with the death of 
GRAND RAPIDS – A 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing a 9-year-old boy on a western Michigan playground told authorities he wanted to go to jail and did not know the victim, according to a court document filed Friday. The delinquency petition filed in Kent County Circuit Court said 12-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn told investigators he’s “bad and always does stupid things.” He added he thought he’d be killed “for doing something like this,” according to The Grand Rapids Press. Lawhorn said he didn’t know how many times he stabbed 
LA CROSSE — Criminal charges have been filed in La Crosse County against a man accused of killing a cab driver and leading police on a high-speed chase. Prosecutors say Timmy Johnson Jr. admitted killing 
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR - Police have arrested a Jacksonville teen for a weekend murder. The North Little Rock Police Department says Robert Harris, 17, is charged with Capital Murder and Aggravated Robbery in the Sunday morning shooting death of 
CENTER CITY -- Police say the suspect behind an attack on a Center City pet-sitter is behind bars and being held on $2 million bail. 47-year-old Kenneth Todd is charged in the brutal attack which occurred July 25th on the 1300 block of Pine Street. The victim, a 46-year-old 
SHREVEPORT, LA - Shreveport police say they have arrested a third suspect in the shooting death of a man in the Highland neighborhood last week. Shavez S. Taylor 32, of the 7400 block of Southern Avenue in Shreveport, was taken into police custody just before 6:00 p.m. Thursday after surrendering to authorities at Shreveport police headquarters. Taylor's arrest comes 10 days after 48-year-old 
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Missouri Supreme Court late Thursday afternoon scheduled a September 10 execution date for convicted killer Earl Ringo Jr. Ringo was convicted of two counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to death for the brutal July 4, 1998 double killing at Columbia's Ruby Tuesday restaurant on Bernadette. Prosecutors said Ringo killed Ruby Tuesday employee 
GREENSBORO — They cooked up the scheme in the locker room of the gentleman’s club where they worked: Meet a customer after hours and rob him of the $20,000 he had with him. The women — Jessica Gibbs Salinas, 23, of Reidsville; Heaven Leigh Shoffner, 20, of Mocksville; and Sommer Nicole Painter, 21, of Greensboro — entered into plea agreements with prosecutors early this week to avoid harsher sentences, prosecutors said. They had faced felony assault and robbery charges. The women pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit armed robbery and testified Thursday in the trial of Ali Mahamed Sheikh, 21, and Abdulkadir Sharif Ali, 22, who are charged with armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
TRENTON – Social media could make or break a case against a Princeton man accused of sexually assaulting 
CLEVELAND, OH - A woman is facing charges for sex with young boys, and the investigation is growing. Cleveland Police Sex Crimes investigators have filed a rape charge against Anika George. She now sits in the Cuyahoga County Jail. Police consider her such a danger to kids on the streets, they just asked a judge to set a high bond to keep her locked up. Charge papers say George had 
DECATUR, Georgia - Robert Glen Spears, 26, was arrested Wednesday afternoon by members of the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force in Decatur, Georgia. On July 13, Spears was identified as a passenger in a vehicle that became involved in a road rage incident with another vehicle. Spears open fired at a passing vehicle, seriously injuring one occupant and killing the driver. On July 17, an arrest warrant was issued for Spears on charges involving murder. 
Attorneys for a Mississippi death-row inmate who was tried six times for the same killings told the state Supreme Court on Monday that his most recent trial was unfair and his conviction should be overturned. Lawyers for Curtis Flowers, a black man convicted in the 1996 slayings of four people at a furniture store from which he had been fired days earlier, said jury selection in his 2010 trial was racially biased and that evidence against him was both lacking and misrepresented by prosecutors. Flowers was convicted and sentenced to death in 1997, 1999 and 2004, but the state Supreme Court overturned each of those convictions – the first two because of prosecutorial misconduct and the third because of racial discrimination during jury selection. Two more trials, in 2007 and 2008, ended in hung juries split along racial lines. In 2010, Flowers was again convicted and sentenced to death. Killed were store owner
DAYTON — The primary suspect in a Dayton woman's murder was released from jail Wednesday because the prosecutor's office needs more evidence to formally charge him. Tabaree Thompson Shabazz, 41, is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, 45-year-old 
The mother of the three children that were killed in that carjacking in North Philadelphia has died. 
Florida resident, Judes Exantus, 29, was pulled over by a Collier County Deputy for running a stop sign yesterday, and got into a bit of an argument with the officer after denying that he ran the stop sign (even though the deputy assured him that he saw everything that happened). The officer proceeded to go write Exantus a ticket, but apparently was taking too long for Judes' liking. So, the 29-year-old Immokalee man reportedly called up 911 to complain about the officer's delay (yes, we're being serious).
Matthew Lane Durham is facing life behind bars after reportedly sexually abusing up to 10 orphaned children while he was volunteering as a missionary in Kenya’s Upendo Children’s Home. In text messages, Durham claims that a demon named Luke was coming to him at night. 'Every night luke gets what luke wants,' the young man texted. 
Arraignment is scheduled Friday in federal court for 19-year-old Matthew Lane Durham of Edmond. Durham was indicted by a grand jury on three felony counts earlier this week that accuse him of traveling from Oklahoma City to Kenya so he could sexually abuse children. A federal judge has ordered that Durham remain in custody until his trial, which has not been set. Prosecutors have alleged that Durham engaged in
BEAVERCREEK, Ohio - Montgomery County Coroner's Office investigator Jim Fannin said Wednesday that John Crawford, 22, of Fairfield, was fatally shot at a Walmart in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek. Beavercreek police said Crawford was shot around 8 p.m. after waving a rifle-type weapon around inside the store. Officers shot him after he failed to comply with verbal orders. He later died at a hospital. Authorities said 
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Huntsville Police have arrested a suspect in the year-old murder of two brothers at a local church. 
A Pleasantville man has been charged with murder in connection with a woman whose remains were found in a suitcase in a wooded area behind the former Shore Mall in Egg Harbor Township. Steven Stallworth, 27, who lives in Noah's Landing, was arrested Tuesday morning, Atlantic County Prosecutor Jim McClain said. 
SALISBURY, Md. - Police say they have made an arrest in connection to fatal Salisbury home invasion, that happened in April. Maryland State Police say 35-year-old Paul Tatem, of Quantico, has been indicted and charged with first and second degree murder, two counts of armed robbery, two counts of robbery, two counts of first and second degree assault, attempted first and second degree murder, first degree burglary, theft between $1,000 and $10,000, two counts of wearing/carrying a dangerous weapon with intent to injure, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, and felon in possession of a firearm. The charges stem from an April 16th incident, where 
HORRY COUNTY, SC - The Horry County Solicitor's Office has announced the retrial date, regarding the death of a Myrtle Beach police officer.
The retrial of Luzenski Allen Cottrell, in the death of Officer 
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The man police say strangled a woman and spit on her body after dumping it along Plaster Creek on the city's Southeast Side pleaded guilty to the August, 2013 slaying.. Today's surprise plea by Demarco Marquis Carnegie comes the same day his jury trial for open murder and armed robbery was to begin in Kent County Circuit Court. The 28-year-old Kentwood man faces life in prison when sentenced September 3. Because of the guilty plea, prosecutors will drop an armed robbery charge Carnegie faced for a gas station hold-up. Carnegie admitted to killing 
TUCSON, Ariz. – A seventh suspect in the 2010 killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged in the slaying that is at the center of a scandal over a botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious. Federal prosecutors say 30-year-old
The man shot to death in a home invasion in the Street area of northern Harford County early Monday was robbed of money during a struggle with three men, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday. 
MINNEAPOLIS — The chilling kidnapping and robbery of a young woman in Minneapolis was captured on high-definition surveillance cameras. It happened early last Tuesday morning in south Minneapolis. In the video, you can see a woman walking with two of the suspects down Lyndale Avenue. Look closely, and you can see she is in a headlock. The taller suspect is carrying her purse, and a closeup shows he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a handgun. At the moment we first see the 
KANSAS CITY, MO - A group of strangers stepped in when they saw a child left in a hot car while the child's mother shopped and now the mother has been charged with second-degree child endangerment, a misdemeanor. One woman who didn't want to be identified said she and others spotted the little girl in the car and, when they couldn't tell if the child was sleeping or unconscious, she and others sprang into action. A report from the Kansas City, MO, Police Department said officers were called to the Game Stop, located just southeast of Interstate 29 and Missouri Route 152, about 7 p.m. Monday. When they got to the area, police were called to the nearby Chipotle where they were told people were fighting. Tiquana S. Pasco, 29, was found yelling near the front door that someone had her daughter, but police say she was belligerent and didn't follow orders from them. When the witnesses walked back into Chipotle, they said Pasco followed them and pushed and hit Welch who got between her and the woman holding her little girl, demanding that they return her. Pasco also punched 
RALEIGH, WAKE COUNTY - A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a sheriff's deputy who also served as a deputy U.S. marshal. Lamont Deshawn Byrd (pictured left), 21, pleaded guilty Monday in Raleigh to one count of first-degree murder of an officer of the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker. Byrd killed 
The 17-year-old suspect in a fatal shooting in Stuttgart pleaded not guilty Monday. Arthur L. Hicks Jr. of Stuttgart was led into the Arkansas County Circuit Court courtroom in Stuttgart shortly after 1 p.m. Monday shackled at the feet and in handcuffs. He walked in with two other inmates with Hicks the only prisoner wearing the blue Arkansas County Juvenile Detention Center issued clothing. Hicks will be tried as an adult. Hicks is charged with capital murder. The original charge of first-degree battery was no longer relevant after shooting victim
KANSAS CITY, MO - Authorities are investigating after thieves toting a shotgun robbed a group of park patrons. "I cannot believe that something like this would happen here," 
A mother said police initially refused to investigate a man who she says is sending creepy texts to her son. 
