An international manhunt is underway for a suspect who allegedly doused an infant with scalding hot coffee at a park in Australia late last month. Queensland police say the coward assaulted the infant at Hanlon Park in Stones Corner around noon on Aug. 27. That’s when a man walked up to a family with whom...
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Kentucky manhunt enters third day as officers hack through thickets with machetes: 'Like a jungle'
A manhunt for a gunman in Kentucky stretched into a third day on Monday as officers hacked through “jungle”-like terrain with machetes in search of a suspect who opened fire near Interstate 75 over the weekend, wounding five people, authorities said. Officers have relentlessly scoured a rugged, hilly area of southeastern Kentucky since the shooting...
Kentucky police recover SUV, AR-15 in manhunt for I-75 shooter
Kentucky police have recovered an SUV and an AR-15 rifle in the manhunt for a suspected gunman who, according to authorities, opened fire near Interstate 75, injuring several people and causing a car accident. A small silver colored SUV registered to the suspect – 32-year-old Joseph A. Couch – was recovered off a U.S. Forest...
Kentucky police resume manhunt for gunman in I-75 shooting
A manhunt resumed in southeastern Kentucky early Sunday as law enforcement searched for the suspected gunman who authorities say opened fire near Interstate 75, injuring seven people in the shooting and a car accident. Law enforcement agencies are combing the area along the highway on foot and with a drone after the shooting unfolded Saturday...
Illegal immigrant arrested after stabbing of teen girl at Indiana baseball game: police
A previously deported illegal immigrant from Honduras was arrested Sunday, authorities said, following an intense manhunt in Indiana after he was deemed a person of interest in the random stabbing of a teen girl at a baseball game. The manhunt for Dimas Gabriel Yanez, 26, began Saturday after a 14-year-old girl was stabbed in the...
Escaped Mississippi murder suspect arrested after standoff at Chicago restaurant near DNC
A murder suspect who escaped from a Mississippi courthouse in June was arrested in Chicago on Wednesday morning after a standoff with police at a restaurant just blocks from the Democratic National Convention, authorities said. Joshua Zimmerman barricaded himself inside the Seafood Junction restaurant, about half a mile from the United Center, where the convention...
North Carolina manhunt for escaped murderer ends more than 100 miles away, woman also arrested
Ramone Jamarr Alston, the “Christmas Day Killer” who escaped custody Tuesday morning and ran off into the woods near UNC Hillsborough Hospital, has been recaptured in Kannapolis, North Carolina, authorities said. Tactical officers arrested him at a hotel on Cloverleaf Parkway around 2 a.m. Friday, according to investigators. That is more than 100 miles to...
North Carolina sheriff hunting 'Christmas Day Killer' knows him personally, warns he has 'nothing to lose'
A North Carolina sheriff issued a new warning Wednesday as the manhunt for an escaped convicted murderer, Ramone Jamarr Alston, dubbed the “Christmas Day Killer,” entered its second day. Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood said he grew up with the escapee’s father and has known him for a long time. “He was a troubled child,...
North Carolina manhunt launched for convicted murderer who escaped on way to hospital: sheriff
A manhunt has been launched after a convicted murderer managed to escape law enforcement’s grasp on the way to receive medical care at a nearby hospital. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Ramone Jamarr Alston, 30, escaped from the custody of officers from the North Carolina Department of Corrections while being transported from Bertie...
Florida deputy was 'likely sleeping' when inmate escaped hospital: sheriff
A Florida inmate who was captured last week after faking an injury and escaping a hospital was able to flee from custody because the deputy tasked with guarding him was “likely sleeping,” according to authorities. Flagler County Deputy Tyrique Harper resigned on Tuesday before the start of a former internal investigation into how 29-year-old Anthony...









