On a bright Wednesday afternoon at the University of Idaho, students and staff unveiled a new garden memorial to honor the four students killed Nov. 13, 2022, and other students the school has lost since. The Vandal Healing Garden, created by students at the University of Idaho College of Art and Architecture, opened two days...
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Islamic State claims responsibility in German festival attack as second suspect arrested
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the deadly stabbing spree at a festival in Germany on Friday that left three people dead and eight others injured. The group said the attacker targeted Christians and was a “soldier of the Islamic State” who carried out the attack “to avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere.” German...
New York infant mauled, killed by dogs in attic while parents smoked marijuana: Police
A New York couple was arrested after they left their three-month-old baby alone with two dogs in their attic, where the child was fatally mauled by the animals, according to police. Sulamain Hawkins and Anastasia Weaver, both 19, are charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of the baby, Sulamain Hawkins Jr., Rochester Police...
South Carolina's first execution in more than 13 years set for next month
South Carolina will carry out its first execution in more than 13 years next month following struggles to obtain lethal injection drugs. Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 20 for the 1997 killing of store clerk Irene Graves during a string of robberies in Greenville. Owens also killed his cellmate...
Scott Peterson murder case is still making news 20+ years later
It’s been more than 20 years since Scott Peterson was convicted of the murder of his wife Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, Connor. Speculation and fascination surrounding the case have barely slowed over the past two decades as people want to know if Scott didn’t do it … who did? Peterson is currently serving...
French authorities hunt for arsonist who targeted synagogue, injured police officer
About 200 police officers hunted on Saturday for a man who tried to set fire to a synagogue in the southern French city of La Grande-Motte, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said, adding that authorities would be ruthless with antisemitism. A police officer was slightly injured when a gas bottle exploded as police secured the site...
Texas man allegedly kidnapped rideshare driver, forced to drive 1,000 miles to Miami: authorities
A Texas man faces federal charges after he allegedly kidnapped a rideshare driver at gunpoint and forced the driver to take them to South Florida, according to authorities. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a press release that 23-year-old Miguel Alejandro Pastran Hernandez has been charged in a Miami...
Two Arizona residents killed in armed attack on dangerous Mexican highway near southern border
An investigation is underway after two Arizona women were found shot to death in an overturned vehicle on a dangerous stretch of highway in northern Mexico. The women, identified only by their last names and ages, were 72 and 82, the attorney general’s office for the state of Sonora said in a release on social...
The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr, the 20-month-old baby abducted from his crib
American aviation and military officer Charles Lindbergh made history on May 20, 1927, when he departed for his first solo flight as a pilot across the Atlantic. Less than five years later, on March 1, 1932, tragedy struck his family when his 20-month-old baby, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was abducted from his New Jersey home...
Georgia man arrested in another state after wife's burnt remains found: authorities
A Fayetteville, Georgia, man was arrested in Louisiana on Thursday, after he allegedly killed his wife and burned her body before burying her under yard debris, according to authorities. The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said Kenneth Hardin Junior faces homicide-related charges and was being held in St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana, pending extradition. In a...









