A 4-year-old on Tuesday afternoon backed a day care center's van over a 2-year-old while an employee loaded other children into the vehicle in New York.The toddler was in critical but stable condition after the accident at the Busy Kidz Group Family Day Care in Staten Island, the Staten Island Advance reported.The 4-year-old jumped into the driver's seat while the van sat parked along the sidewalk, TV station WABC reported. The van rolled... [...]
DETROIT (AP) — A woman who authorities say killed a friend with a slow cooker during a political dispute in suburban Detroit while very drunk faces sentencing.Tewana Sullivan is expected to learn her punishment Monday. She was awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge when she pleaded guilty but mentally ill last month to second-degree murder. A deal with prosecutors calls for 23 to 50 years in prison.The mental illness plea doesn't... [...]
The family of a man suspected in a brazen attack on Dallas Police headquarters Saturday said he harbored a personal grudge against cops, and has a violent criminal history that includes death threats and assaults on relatives, and alleged plans to gun down innocent people at schools and churches.The suspect in the late-night shootout in downtown Dallas identified himself to police negotiators as James Boulware, 35.Before cutting communications,... [...]
You're supposed to love thy neighbor, not kidnap them -- no matter how loud they are in the laundry room.Leon Thurston, 61, of Vero Beach, Florida, faces kidnapping charges after police say he abducted a neighbor at gunpoint early Sunday morning because he felt she was making too much noise while washing her clothes, according to WESH TV.Jessica and David Scoville were washing clothes in their laundry room at about 5:30 a.m. when Thurston,... [...]
A recent family quarrel in Florida sparked by a couple of cans of beer ended with a shotgun blast through the front door of a residence.
Authorities with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office say that Elvis Rhodes, 55, took the two beers from a cooler on his son and daughter's porch Sunday while they were away, First Coast News reports.
Christopher Rhodes, 28, and Elaina Rhodes, 34, later confronted Elvis about the beer. An argument ensued, and... [...]
