A Honduran national, who was previously deported twice from the U.S., was charged with two separate murders last week in Nashville after authorities say they found a “badly burned” body inside a torched car and a decomposing body in the trunk of a different car. Kevin Castro-Garcia, 31, was charged …
Read More »
After delaying college for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jaden Todd wasn’t sure a four-year school was the right place to start. “I was extremely concerned that I forgot how to learn,” he said. Community college appealed as a stepping stone, but he also had heard stories of …
Read More »
FERGUSON, Mo. – A closer look at the community of Ferguson, Missouri, where 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed: ___ HISTORY: Incorporated in 1894 by founder William B. Ferguson as a railroad depot, the town quickly grew into a hub for freight and passenger traffic and a bedroom community for city …
Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco police found a dismembered body when they opened a suitcase abandoned on a downtown street and then made another gruesome discovery when they uncovered more body parts nearby. Police spokeswoman Grace Gatpandan said Thursday that it’s unclear if all the remains belong to one person. …
Read More »
WASHINGTON – Smoke was reported in a Metro station after a train had a brake problem, but the haze cleared and no one was injured. The report of smoke Friday comes after a train filled with smoke last month near the L’Enfant Plaza station and a woman died. Dozens of …
Read More »
SOUTHINGTON, Conn. – A Wallingford man is suing a Southington restaurant and bar claiming “permanent, serious” injury after being thrown from a mechanical bull. Steven M. Saleski, in a Feb. 6 lawsuit, sued Meadow Muffins LLC, which owns the mechanical bull, and T.C.B. LLC, which owns the restaurant, the Cadillac …
Read More »
JACKSON, Miss. – Three more young white men, all part of a group that repeatedly searched Mississippi’s capital city for black people to attack, have been sentenced to federal prison. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves on Wednesday sentenced William Kirk Montgomery to 19 ½ years for his role in the …
Read More »
NEW YORK – The FBI and New York Police Department say a reward of up to $115,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the March 2008 bombing at the Times Square military recruitment station. No one was injured. But Police Commissioner William Bratton says …
Read More »
MANCHESTER, N.H. – The family of a 24-year-old woman who died of a heroin overdose has written an obituary openly discussing her struggle with drugs, including a plea to “do everything possible” to help drug addicts before it’s too late. Molly Parks died in Manchester on April 16. Her family …
Read More »
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – No threat has been found at a U.S. Air Force base in North Dakota that was locked down for two hours while base officials investigated a domestic violence report from local police. Lt. James Fisher says police in Grand Forks notified the Grand Forks Air Force …
Read More »