Tag Archives: Crime

Police in Vermont have launched a large-scale search for a missing senior, 21-year-old Lia Purcell Smith, at the prestigious Middlebury College campus, authorities said. “We have been in touch with the student’s family and friends to offer support and learn all we can about the student’s recent activities and whereabouts,” …

The U.S. government is aware of the kidnapping of an American Christian missionary in the West African nation of Niger, U.S. official sources told Fox News. The sources told Fox News that they suspect that the missionary has been taken north to Islamic State-controlled areas where an offshoot of ISIS …

A teenager in New Jersey has filed a major lawsuit against the company behind an artificial intelligence (AI) “clothes removal” tool that allegedly created a fake nude image of her. The case has drawn national attention because it shows how AI can invade privacy in harmful ways. The lawsuit was …

A body has been found during the search for a missing Vermont college student who was last seen on campus about a week ago. Lia Smith, 21, was last seen on Middlebury College’s campus on the night of Oct. 17 and was reported missing that Sunday, the school announced. Smith, …

Waterbury, Conn. — A Connecticut man who said he was held captive for 20 years was rescued after setting fire to his room and telling first responders he did it to gain his freedom, police said Wednesday. The man’s stepmother was charged with cruelty and kidnapping. Waterbury first responders rescued …

Former Hawaii lawmaker Suzanne Chun Oakland remembers arriving at school one morning in 1977 to an eerie buzz. The 15-year-old had met up with girlfriends as usual before class at Honolulu’s McKinley High School when she learned a student named Dawn Momohara had been found dead on the second floor …

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. — Police in Wisconsin fatally shot a student who had pointed a pellet rifle in their direction outside a middle school, according to the state’s Department of Justice. On Saturday, the Wisconsin DOJ released an update to its ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting outside Mount Horeb Middle …

NEWARK, N.J. — Members of a mosque are devastated after their imam was shot and killed Wednesday morning.  Imam Hassan Sharif was fatally shot outside his mosque on South Orange Avenue and Camden Street in Newark at around 6:15 a.m. Officials said they do not believe it was motivated by bias or …

HELMETTA, N.Y. — The FBI manhunt for Gregory Yetman, wanted in connection with the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, entered its second day Thursday in Middlesex County, New Jersey.  Investigators said Yetman fled while being served a warrant. He allegedly hopped a fence and ran toward train tracks near …

NEW YORK — The NYPD says Brian Dowling, an 18-year-old Brooklyn man, has been charged with murder in the deadly stabbing of public policy activist Ryan Carson. Dowling faced a judge Thursday night, arraigned on a second-degree murder charge. The judge denied bail. Only CBS New York was on the scene …