LEAVENWORTH, Wash. — Authorities were using DNA testing on Friday to determine whether have they found the skeletal remains of Travis Decker, an ex-soldier wanted in the deaths of his three daughters, in the mountains of Washington state. The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday that preliminary findings suggest the remains belong to Decker. They said they hope to have …
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LEAVENWORTH, Wash. — Authorities say they have found remains they believe are Travis Decker, an ex-soldier wanted in the deaths of his three daughters, in the mountains of Washington state. The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Thursday that it was processing the site with the help of the Washington State Patrol crime scene response team. They will …
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Former President Barack Obama addressed political violence in the United States on Tuesday night, telling a group in Pennsylvania that the country is “at an inflection point.” The former president addressed the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attacks on two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers that left speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives Melissa Hortman and her husband dead, …
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A federal grand jury in Minnesota has returned an eight-count indictment charging naturalized U.S. citizens Benedict Nwana Kuah, 51, and Pascal Kikishy Wongbi, 52, with organizing, financing, and directing kidnappings, bombings, and killings in their native country, the Republic of Cameroon. Kuah and Wongbi were arrested this morning in the District of Minnesota and made their initial appearances this afternoon. Kuah …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. The grants were ended as part of $18.5 million in cuts to a Homeland Security program that the Trump administration …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link As authorities continue their search for Travis Decker, the Washington state man accused of suffocating his three daughters to death, investigators now believe he is the only suspect in the crime based on evidence found at the gruesome scene. The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office revealed in a social media post Tuesday that each victim, 5-year-old Olivia, …
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Tremonton man accused of fatally shooting two officers and wounding a sheriff’s deputy Sunday was assaulting a woman last night when police arrived to help, arrest records state. A probable cause statement said the investigation revealed Ryan Michael Bate, 32, slammed the woman’s head into a door frame. Court records and audio recordings from inside …
Read More »Prosecutor Takes Over Local Police Force in New Jersey After 2 Killings The New York Times NJ state trooper accused of fatally shooting ex-girlfriend, another man in apparent murder-suicide in Franklin Township ABC7 New York New Jersey police lieutenant accused of killing ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in murder-suicide NBC News Hunterdon prosecutor takes over Franklin police amid double murder investigation New Jersey Globe Franklin …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Prosecutors plan to seek the execution of a man accused of shooting and killing four members of a family in rural Tennessee, including the parents of an infant found abandoned under the summer sun miles away, the district attorney said in court Thursday. Austin Robert Drummond, captured Tuesday after a week-long manhunt, sat handcuffed in a …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link A weeklong manhunt is over in the killings of four relatives of a baby found abandoned in Tennessee. Austin Robert Drummond was arrested Tuesday morning in the woods in Jackson after residents saw him. The 28-year-old is a convicted felon with alleged ties to a violent street gang who was out on bail on an attempted …
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