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(White) Kentucky Trooper Tried to Help (black) Suspect Before Fatal Shooting
  A Kentucky State Police trooper wanted to do a favor for the driver he pulled over late at night. It turned out the man was driving with a suspended license, so the lawman was arranging for overnight lodging for the man and his fellow travelers, including two children. Those plans soon unraveled, with tragic results. During the stop on a rural stretch of interstate, the driver took off. What ensued was a chain of events that led to the deaths of the lawman and the suspect, authorities said. Trooper Joseph Cameron Ponder, 31, was shot by the suspect during a second stop late Sunday in western Kentucky, Trooper Jay Thomas, a state police spokesman, said Monday. Ponder, a Navy veteran, had been on the state police force less than a year. "He was trying to help them out, and for an unknown reason, the driver fled," Thomas said. "At the initial stop, it was his intent to put them all in a hotel without having to apprehend the driver," Thomas added. "After he initiated the pursuit, I'm sure his mind was changed on that." The suspect, 25-year-old Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks of Florissant, Missouri, ran away after Ponder was shot. - (Black-on-white) |
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- Police: KSP trooper shooting suspect shot, killed
 An 18-year-old woman in the car, Johnson-Shanks’ niece, Ambrea R.J. Shanks of Florissant, was charged with first-degree hindering prosecution or apprehension and taken to jail Monday, police said. Another woman and two children younger than 6 years old were also in the car, police said. “He was trying to help them out, and for an unknown reason, the driver fled,” Thomas said.
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- Police kill (black) suspect after (White) Kentucky trooper fatally shot
Kentucky State Police found the suspect, Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks, 25, of Missouri, in a wooded area close to Interstate 24, near where he allegedly shot the trooper after a car chase, police said. Johnson-Shanks had aimed his gun at troopers and refused to drop it, leading one to shoot him, officials said. Johnson-Shanks died at a medical center in Princeton, Kentucky.
- Joseph Johnson-Shanks Dead: 5 Fast Facts
3. He Was From a Neighboring Suburb to Ferguson, Missouri - (Blue lives matter)
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Man spots estranged stepfather, suspect in 1999 slaying, calls police
 The last time Willie Britton saw his stepfather Jerome Lawrence, the year was 1999, and Lawrence was being arrested on a domestic battery charge for beating Britton's mother. Within a month of that arrest, police were interviewing Britton and his mother about Lawrence in connection with a far more gruesome crime — the slaying and home invasion of Far Northwest Side resident Marjorie Collette. Lawrence escaped from an Arkansas jail before he could be charged and managed to elude authorities despite multiple arrests in Florida. Sixteen years later, Britton, now 32, who has had nightmares about seeing his stepfather again, relived one of his worst fears as he walked past Lawrence on Friday. When Lawrence walked into the Cook County Circuit Court courtroom, he stared into the sparsely occupied gallery, where Collette's niece, Judy Beavis, was seated. Lawrence and another man had been doing remodeling work on Collette's house in the Edison Park neighborhood in the days before the 65-year-old was found dead in her bed by another niece May 21, 1999. The suspect is accused of smothering Collette with her pillow, slitting her dog's throat for barking and making off with a bag full of her electronics and a safe. |
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- Man arrested in 1999 Chicago murder
Another man, John Cameron, 67, pleaded guilty to a murder charge and was sentenced to 24 years in prison in connection with the case. He is due to be released from the Dixon Correctional Center in 2026.
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Final (black) suspect arrested in robbery of retired (White) Hollywood police sergeant
  PLANTATION, Fla. - A final suspect has been arrested in connection with a Hollywood police sergeant who was robbed at a Plantation hotel a day after he retired from the force. Cuinn Sealy Jr, 22, was arrested Sunday in Clay County. Jerry Exume, 20, and Ronald Hubbard, 25, were arrested earlier this year. All men face charges of kidnapping and armed burglary with battery. The robbery was reported about 6:30 a.m. April 16 at a Residence Inn at 130 N. University Drive. Police said Sgt. William "Billy" Ferguson heard a knock on his hotel room door and opened it, thinking it was his wife. Instead, the officer was met by the men, one of whom was armed with a handgun. Police said a struggle ensued and Ferguson was struck in the head with the butt of a pistol. The men then ordered him to lay face down on the ground and tied him up with bed sheets, authorities said. Police said the robbers also placed a pillowcase over the sergeant's head, while they stole cash and other property from the hotel room. Two police badges, $3,000 in cash, jewelry, a Rolex watch, two iPads, an iPhone and a camera were stolen. - (Black-on-white) |
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State Supreme Court Upholds Conviction, Death Penalty For (black) man for kidnap, rape, murder of White woman
  The Tennessee Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for the man who kidnapped, sexually abused, and murdered a woman in west Tennessee in 2010. Rickey Alvis Bell, Jr. appealed his conviction and sentence after a trial court found him guilty of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sexual battery, and two alternative counts of first-degree felony murder. The jury sentenced Bell to death for the first-degree murder conviction. The Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the convictions and sentence, despite finding that two of the four aggravating circumstances that warranted the death penalty were not supported by the record. - (Black-on-white) |
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Two Louisville men arrested, accused of brutal sexual assault of minor
 LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Two Louisville men are behind bars accused of brutally sexually assaulting a teenage girl. According to an arrest slip, Arthur Powers, 50, picked up a 13-year-old girl and Austin White, 51, to go to lunch. But instead of going to lunch, police said, they went to Power's home on Vermont Avenue, where the girl was restrained with duct tape. The arrest slip states White then choked, beat and kicked the victim. The report went on to say that the victim was sodomized and forced perform oral sex. The girl managed to get away, wearing only pants and socks, through a window when the suspects left her alone, according to the arrest slip. The victim told police that White threatened to kill her if she told her family what happened. Police said the young girl suffered several injuries from the assault. |
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- Lou. man behind bars, accused of raping 13-year-old
LOUISVILLE, Ky -- A man has been accused of the rape of his girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter. According to the police report, Austin Carter White allegedly hit the young girl repeatedly in the face. He then chocked her before forcibly raping her. The victim told police that White then threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone what had occurred.
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Black fornicater charged with a “planned” and “heinous” murder of estranged (White) husband of adulterous wife
  SUGARLOAF TWP. — State police allege that a man who had an affair with Samuel Vacante’s wife murdered Vacante in his Drums home, tried to clean up the crime scene, drove away with Vacante’s body in the victim’s own car and disposed of his body. Eleazar Yisrael, 29, of Hazleton, was arraigned today by District Justice Daniel O’Donnell on charges of criminal homicide, robbery, burglary, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. An investigation began after the victim’s estranged wife, Lisa Vacante, called Butler Township police on Aug. 31 to report Vacante missing along with his white 2014 Kia Cadenza. An initial search showed firearms, knives, watches and personal belongings to be among items missing from Vacante’s home at 20 Coventry Lane. In the garage of the residence, discarded gloves and rags, which smelled of bleach, were found along with a discharged .22-caliber shell casing. Yisrael was arrested by state police on Sept. 3 following a series of events linking him to the scene of the crime. According to court documents, Lisa Vacante had a romantic relationship with Yisrael for two years prior to Vacante’s murder and lived with Yisrael, for periods, at his Hazleton residence. - (Black-on-white) |
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Black man sentenced for the murder of his estranged (almost certainly white) wife
 A Granite City man has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for the murder of his estranged wife in 2013. 45-year-old Tyrone Stainback pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced in Madison County Court yesterday in the death of 34-year-old Marissa Stainback of Alton. On June 11, 2013, Tyrone Stainback attacked his wife who was walking with a man on Northgate Industrial Drive in Granite City, stabbing her multiple times. She died later that day at Gateway Regional Medical Center. Tyrone Stainback was arrested shortly after the incident and claimed in the sentencing hearing yesterday that the victim had caused him pain during their marriage and divorce and he decided to kill her. An aunt of the victim is now caring for the couple’s two children. - (Black-on-white) |
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- Husband Charged with Murder for Stabbing Wife in Granite City
A police report states that the victim was walking on Northgate Industrial Drive with another man at around 4pm. They say Tyrone Stainback approached the two and then stabbed Marissa. Police responding to the situation were able to find the suspect and take him into custody without resistance.
- Woman abused prior to murder - August 16, 2013
Days before Marissa Stainback was stabbed to death by her estranged husband, she filed an order of protection against him in Madison County Circuit Court, according to testimony Wednesday at a coroner’s inquest. Her death on June 11 ended years of physical, mental and emotional abuse at the hands of Tyrone Stainback, 42, who now faces two counts of first degree murder.
- Marissa K. Reed, 34, of Alton, IL died Tues. June 11, 2013 at in Granite City, IL.
In addition to her mother, she is survived by: a son, Dylan Arview, 2 daughters, Endia & Hannah Stainback
- In Memoriam of Edmond L. Reed - December 8, 2014
He was preceded in death by... a granddaughter, Marissa Reed
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A violent Brooklyn man is being sought by police in connection with the deaths of two women whose bodies were found in separate hotel rooms over the past few months, sources said. Joseph Danclair, 36, is wanted in the deaths of Chrissy Bevelaqua, 34, and Antoniette Marin, 43, after they were both found lying on hotel room beds with trauma to their necks, according to law enforcement sources. Bevelaqua’s body was discovered July 23 in the Bushwick Hotel in Brooklyn, where Danclair was seen leaving with a plastic bag. Sources said the hotel room was wiped clean but Danclair’s fingerprint was recovered at the scene. On Sept. 8, Marin’s body was discovered at the Manhattan Broadway Hotel in the Garment District, cops said. - (Black-on-white)
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA - Gwinnett County police announced late Friday that a 16-year-old has been arrested in the stabbing death of a Dacula grandmother. Police said James Watkins has been charged with the death of 
MEMPHIS, TN - A man pretending to lend a helping hand to a woman who ran out of gas is in jail charged with kidnapping and trying to rape the woman. Investigators say Michael Love saw the victim pushing her car, after she ran out of gas and offered to drive her to the nearest gas station. The police affidavit says Love drove the woman to a dead end street, pulled her out of the car and tried to take her clothes off and rape her. She wouldn't stand for it; she fought back. Police say the woman's decision to fight back might have been the key to saving her life. Investigators say when the victim fought back, Love drove off, leaving her in the middle of the street. 
A man attempted to rob a women of her purse in Bedford Park, slamming her to the ground, police said. The gloved thug followed the 40-year-old victim into the foyer of her apartment building on East 201 Street and Briggs Avenue in the Bronx when he tried to rip the purse from her shoulder around 7:40 p.m. on September 9, according to authorities. The woman was flung to the ground and the suspect then punched her in the face while trying to yank the bag from her grasp once more, police surveillance video shows. Following a game of tug-of-war, the suspect fled empty-handed on a bicycle. The victim was taken to an area hospital for a facial fracture and wounds to the head, cops said.
LIBERTY, MO - A naked man walking down the street caused quite the scare for elementary school administrators, forcing them to evacuate a playground and put the school on a brief lockdown. Liberty police arrested the 24-year-old Liberty man near Gellatin and Schraeder streets just before 1 p.m. Monday. Prosecutors plan on charging him with indecent exposure. Officers said the man was in some type of intoxicated state but don’t know for sure if it was drug-related or alcohol. 
It was exactly a year ago that the bodies were discovered on the beach: nearly naked, their blood mixing with the morning surf. 
FLORENCE - An Arizona inmate who pleaded guilty to raping a prison teacher apologized to the woman in court Monday before being sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Jacob Harvey's apology came after the teacher's attorney read a lengthy statement from her describing how the January 2014 rape had traumatized her and led to what she called "unwanted psychological reactions, unwanted memories and psychological distress." The 35-year-old woman sat with her parents in the courtroom while her attorney read her words. "At one point after the rape I wished inmate Harvey had just killed me because death seemed like a relief compared to the hell I was living," her statement said. "While I may have wanted to die shortly after the rape, I now have a greater purpose and will to live." She asked Pinal County Superior Court Judge Kevin White to give Harvey the harshest possible sentence. 
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GASTONIA, N.C. - Authorities say a 78-year-old man has died in Gastonia more than two months after he was severely beaten with a cinder block. Investigators said 
The Fort Worth Police Department needs help identifying the person or persons responsible for a man’s death. 
INDIANAPOLIS - An 18-year-old was arrested Sunday for a Sept. 5 convenience store robbery, and the 
Felony charges have been filed against a man accused of torturing a victim with silverware heated on a stove and other instruments. Police also claim that Ernest 'Dollar Bill' Moore, 39, may be able to shed some light on the murders and disappearance of six women in Ross County, Ohio. He turned himself in on Thursday night after the Missing Women's Task Force issued a warrant for his arrest nationwide. On Friday he was indicted on charges of felonious assault and kidnapping. Police Chief Keith Washburn called the kidnap incident 'pure torture', after the victim was 'punched, kicked, assaulted with a broom, possibly raped with the broom, and burned with lighter fluid, silverware heated from the stove and boiling hot water.' 
A repeat sex offender who is so dangerous that a state psychologist believes he will likely strike again is about to be set free over the objections of the judge in his case because of a little-noticed state high court ruling. Jerome Arps — who raped a woman on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 2006 — had been locked up under rules that allowed sex fiends to be jailed after their release date if they are a danger to the public. But a 2014 ruling by the state Court of Appeals has changed those rules. Now, pervs who serve their maximum jail time can be held only if they have a mental problem that is more serious than just a personality disorder. Arps, 58, doesn’t meet this standard — so he technically qualifies for release. Experts, however, fear that he’s still a danger to the public and that it will only be a matter of time before he rapes again if he is freed. Arps — whose offenses date back to when he helped
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Shelby County man will serve 32 years in prison with no chance of parole for raping a child. A criminal court judge sentenced Cordalle Benton, today. This comes after a jury convicted the 26-year-old man of molesting 
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A city marshal with the St. Louis Police Department is facing charges after allegedly making sexual contact with a teenager. John Whitney, 41, is accused of statutory sodomy and child molestation for making sexual contact with
SALISBURY, NC - A Salisbury man was given a citation for indecent exposure after a woman reported to police that the man was exposing and touching himself inappropriately in front of the mural behind the Well Fargo bank just off W. Fisher Street. Andre Floyd Blakeney, 52, of N. Long Street, was arrested at the scene. The woman said she pulled into the bank parking lot just after 7:00 am and noticed Blakeney sitting on a bench. She said he stood up and exposed himself, then began touching himself inappropriately. The woman called police and Blakeney was still there when officers arrived.
An off-duty MTA employee was arrested for drunk driving Sunday after he took a city bus for a booze cruise on Long Island, police said. Bus operator Alexander Copeland, 52, was pulled over by state police about 2:20 p.m. after several worried commuters phoned authorities about an erratic NYC transit bus swerving along the Northern State Parkway in Westbury, according to state police. Copeland, who reeked of booze, was given a sobriety test that determined his blood-alcohol level was .20 percent, more than double the legal limit.
The FBI believes it has arrested and charged a North Side woman as the so-called “Uptown Beach Bandit” for a robbery last month. The Uptown Beach Bandit is alleged to have worn a floppy straw hat and large sunglasses and the FBI says that bank robber is 45-year-old Cynthia Wonsey. She is accused of taking more than $550 from the TCF Bank branch in the 3500 block of North Broadway last month and is suspected in a couple of other hold-ups.
A 24-year-old mother who was found pushing her dead toddler in a swing in Charles County has been indicted on charges of first-degree child abuse and manslaughter, according to two law enforcement officials. In May, Romechia Simms was found with
A well-to-do Brooklyn judge has been waging a knockdown, drag-out legal battle against a nonprofit children’s summer camp called World of Money over a sum that is hardly a world of money — $800. Brooklyn Civil Judge Genine Edwards — who lives in a $1.3 million Brooklyn home — wants the dough back, even though the camp says it is a non-refundable deposit.
Lloyd M. Terry Jr., 20, of Wrightstown, who was a fullback for the Scarlet Knights, was arrested Wednesday in New Brunswick and was charged with armed robbery, armed burglary and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. 
An attorney for dismissed Rutgers University football player Andre Boggs is claiming the alleged victims in three home invasions have good reason to lie to police – they are all drug dealers who should have been arrested. "My client rots in jail based on the allegations of drug dealers," said James Donohue, a former prosecutor who is defending Boggs. 
When Joshua Goldberg wasn’t posing as an Islamic radical, he was pretending to be a white supremacist—and is accused of impersonating a Jewish lawyer. 
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Torry Mashone Johnson on Friday entered a guilty plea to first-degree murder in a 1997 homicide case in Wyandotte County. On Oct. 22, 1997, 
One of the two men charged with capital murder in the 2014 slaying of a retired Birmingham firefighter and two-tour Vietnam veteran during the break-in at a Hueytown home was sentenced to life in prison Thursday in a plea deal with prosecutors. Under the plea deal 24-year-old Kamal Potts also agrees to "testify truthfully" at his co-defendant's up-coming capital murder trial. Potts and Romel Cunningham, 29, were charged in the April 23, 2014 slaying of 
A woman has been charged with felony assault with a weapon — her two pit bulls. Cynthia Oliver allegedly sicced her pets on a man she was arguing with on a Bronx street. 
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - The Orange County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in finding two people wanted in an armed robbery and beating. The incident happened at 1 a.m. Aug. 1 in the area of Hope Circle and West Livingston Street. Deputies said a man and a woman were involved in the robbery and beating of a victim. The two fled from the scene on foot. The man is described by deputies as black, in his 20s, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds. Deputies said he wears his hair in dreadlocks. Deputies described the woman as white, 22 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 130 pounds. They said she has blond hair. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS. Deputies said a reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information.
FLINT, MI – A convicted sex offender from Tennessee is wanted by Flint Police as a Person of Interest in crimes that were committed at the University of Michigan – Flint campus. Charles Junior Brown is a wanted person. He is a person of interest in two recent cases involving indecent exposure on the campus of the University of Michigan-Flint Charles Brown is wanted for absconding from Tennessee. He is a Tier 3 registered sex offender. He was convicted of Criminal Sexual Conduct with Force. He is also wanted for failure to register as a sex offender in Michigan. Crime Stoppers is offering a $1000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of Brown. Name: 
Metro Transit police chased a suspect into the train tunnels at the Wheaton Metro Station, causing the trains to temporarily halt service along the Red Line. Police said the man is wanted in connection with an alleged sexual assault outside the Metro station. He fled into the station and into the tunnel as officers approached. While trains were stopped, a search was conducted, but the suspect was not found. Service was restored after about three hours. On Sunday, police arrested Joshua Lamont Smith, of northeast Washington, and charged him with fourth-degree sexual assault, second-degree assault and trespassing.
ST. LOUIS • A man from Jersey County has been charged with attacking a woman outside a hookah bar in midtown St. Louis in July, driving her through the city, raping her twice and taking her money, authorities say. Michael D. Ramsey, 22, was charged Thursday with kidnapping, two counts of first-degree rape, two counts of sodomy, two counts of sexual abuse and robbery. Bail was set at $200,000 cash. St. Louis police say the woman, 19, was a stranger to Ramsey. The woman and a friend were out July 21 at the Double Apple Cafe & Hookah Lounge at 3131 Olive Street near Harris Stowe State University and St. Louis University.
A Wilkes-Barre man accused of killing his girlfriend’s cat by putting it in a washing machine and smashing it against walls pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor count of animal cruelty. Donovan Mackey, 21, of North Pennsylvania Avenue, will be sentenced Nov. 12 before Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas on the charge. Police said Mackey went to a home on North Main Street in April looking for his girlfriend, and when he didn’t find her he began damaging her bedroom. Mackey then “hunted down her cat,” captured it and put it in a washing machine, which he switched on, police said. He quickly removed the cat from the machine, but then wrapped it in a bedsheet and flung the animal against several walls, killing it, police said. After the cat was dead, Mackey threw the sheet and the carcass in a garbage bag, which he tossed in the backyard, police said.
Authorities are investigating allegations that a female assistant principal slept with a girl student while the principal kept it quiet. Pelagia Papoutsis, 33, was abruptly removed from William Cullen Bryant HS in Long Island City — a school already embroiled in a grading and credit scandal — on Sept. 4, the Friday before classes started. 
INDIANAPOLIS – The man convicted for killing a woman in the basement of a far east side home was sentenced on Friday morning. According to court records, 52-year-old Morice Ervin was sentenced to 95 years for the murder of 21-year-old 
NORFOLK, Va. -- A Virginia couple has admitted to getting drunk and having sex in the middle of a shopping center parking lot. "[I] was in the mood, and that's basically what happened," 36-year-old Kimberly M. Jackson said. Authorities received calls about an exposure in progress at 6025 E. Virginia Beach Blvd. on Tuesday. The caller told dispatchers that a couple was involved in a sexual act in the parking lot. Once police arrived, they found Jackson and her boyfriend, Earl Palmer, in the parking lot. At the time, the man was unconscious and unresponsive. He was taken to Sentara Leigh Hospital for treatment. Jackson was arrested and charged for being drunk in public. 
MONROE, La - On Friday, Sept. 11th, 2015, Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office Investigators began conducting an investigation into a reported rape involving
A former student teacher and assistant football coach at Bearden High School resigned Thursday after he was arrested for a statutory rape charge the day before. Jordan Harris was placed on administrative leave with pay on Sept. 3, then was subsequently moved to administrative leave without pay on Wednesday. Original Story: Authorities arrested a former student teacher Wednesday due to his sexual relationship with a minor. Jordan Lorenzo Harris, 23, of Maryville is charged with statutory rape by an authority figure following a joint investigation by the Alcoa and Maryville Police Departments. The charge stems from a relationship Harris had with a girl while he was assigned to a local school system as a student teacher during the 2014-2015 school year.
EAST POINT, GA – Police said 20-year-old Terry Young was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with rape, kidnapping and robbery in connection with attacking three women at a townhome complex. Young was discovered in an apartment just one complex away from the townhomes where they said he kidnapped, 
EAST POINT, Ga -- Police believe they know the name of a man accused of several rapes in East Point. According to the rapist's victims, the man said his name was Antonio Graves and that he is 23 years old. The victims also said the alleged rapist said he had a 10-month-old and contemplated suicide. According to the victims, the information came during a long, rambling, rant from the suspect. While holding them at gunpoint, the suspect told the women he "feels neglected" and "I know you wouldn't talk to me if I wasn't holding a gun to you right now." 
LOS ANGELES — The 33-year-old father of three boys found stabbed in the back of an SUV has been booked on suspicion of murder in their deaths. 
Authorities on Friday questioned 19-year-old 
OKLAHOMA CITY - A convicted killer has been charged with first-degree murder after a DNA match linked him to a 2001 cold case murder of an Oklahoma City woman. According to court documents, on Thursday, Willie Lewis Hayden Jr., 42, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old 
HARRISBURG- A large group of juveniles "savagely assaulted" two Newville brothers who had visited the city to watch fireworks at the Kipona festival. 
A 17-year-old was arrested Wednesday (Sept. 9) in Baton Rouge on a charge of first-degree rape that allegedly involves 
Anchorage police reported Wednesday that 30-year-old David Allen Williams Hadley has been charged with two felonies alleging he tried to solicit sex from
A topless maid has been convicted of killing her elderly client by repeatedly hitting him a shotgun until it broke and then almost sawing off his head with a knife. Centia Renee Martin, 36, was sentenced to 35 years to life for the brutal crime after a jury found her guilty of killing the 74-year-old retired police officer. The jury took four hours to decide the verdict, following a 21-day long trial in which she attempted to represent herself. Steven Gates, deputy district attorney, said retired officer Robert Crigler originally hired her as a topless maid and masseuse on January 10. However, at some point during the the next three days, the maid bludgeoned the former Redondo Beach Swat team member to death with a shotgun. She also nearly decapitated him by sawing at his neck with a knife during the attack inside his Inglewood, LA, home. 
Editor's note: Story contains graphic denoscription of the animal torture depicted in the videos.
FARGO--DNA taken from the teenager being tried as an adult in an armed robbery and attempted kidnapping last fall at the West Acres mall has implicated him as the rapist in a 2013 sexual assault in a hotel parking lot. Fargo police detectives are seeking an additional DNA sample from Abdirahman Sahel, who was 15 when he was arrested in the attack on a West Acres mall employee in the J.C. Penney parking lot in September 2014, according to a search warrant filed Friday in Cass County District Court. A DNA sample collected from Sahel upon his arrest last year and sent for testing to the North Dakota State Crime Lab came back as a match for the 2013 assault, the warrant states.
Police released this sketch Wednesday of the gangbanger who shot an aide to Gov. Cuomo during a predawn celebration ahead of the annual 
It began as a verbal argument between roommates that escalated to violence: one man was repeatedly stabbed with a knife, a killing that was captured on video, and then his body was burned in an almond orchard, according to the Merced County Sheriff’s Department in California. The ex-girlfriend of one of the housemates went to authorities on Tuesday and told them she had seen cellphone footage of the killing, Merced Sgt. Delray Shelton said. Investigators searched the roommates’ house and found “blood splatter and other evidence” that “led them to believe that there was some sort of major crime that had been committed,” Shelton said. Authorities arrested three men on Wednesday:
ST. ANTHONY — A man living in the United States without proper documentation who was initially charged with six counts including two counts of controlled substance delivery or manufacture, a felony; one count possession of drug paraphernalia; and one count possession of marijuana was sent to prison Tuesday. 
