Month: August 2017

Wayne County Sheriff (DETROIT) -- Michigan prosecutors are pressing charges against a Detroit man for the 2016 murder of a university police officer.Wayne County Prosecutors have charged 61-year-old Raymond Durham with the November shooting death of 29-year-old Wayne State University Sgt. Collin Rose, they announced in a press conference Thursday.Durham was charged with first-degree premeditated murder, murder of a peace officer, possession of a firearm by a felon and two […]

Gianna Snell Photography(HUNTSVILLE, Ala.) -- After igniting the internet with their love story, two Alabama senior citizens have officially tied the knot.Murphy Wilson, 70, and Lucinda Myers, 67, exchanged vows in front of 900 guests last Saturday inside First Seventh-day Adventist Church in Huntsville.The couple went viral after their adorable engagement photos went viral back in June, with celebrities such as Niecy Nash even posting them.Myers wore a long white […]

ABC News(ROCKAWAY, N.J.) -- It was June when Dianne and Seth Grossman, along with their 12-year-old daughter Mallory, had what they called an exhaustive meeting at Mallory’s middle school in Rockaway, New Jersey, leading them to decide to take her out of the school.The Grossmans say they were there to talk with school officials about their repeated complaints that their daughter had been viciously bullied by classmates for months in […]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) -- Michelle Carter, who as a teenager sent texts urging her then-boyfriend to commit suicide, was sentenced today to 2.5 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.Conrad Roy III was 18 when he died in July 2014 of carbon monoxide poisoning after locking himself in his truck in Massachusetts.Carter, now 20, who was Roy's girlfriend at the time of his death, went on trial this year, and the prosecution argued […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- In an ongoing group effort to combat the illegal ivory trade, more than a ton of ivory was crushed in Central Park on Thursday.The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation [DEC] partnered with some of the world's most prominent public and private wildlife conservation groups to crush stores of illegal ivory confiscated by state law enforcement.The crushed items included an array of objects made from […]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- A manhunt has intensified for a Northwestern University professor and a second man who are wanted in connection to a murder in Chicago, a police spokesman said today.Suspects Wyndham Lathem, 42, an associate professor at Northwestern, and Andrew Warren, 56, are "at large but we have an idea of their whereabouts," Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in an email today. "Efforts to locate them are only intensifying […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Rangers searching the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona for a mother who disappeared while hiking with her children said on Thursday that they believe they have found her body.Sarah Beadle, 38, of Fort Worth, Texas, went missing on Tuesday. She had made reservations to stay with her two children at the Bright Angel Campground in the Grand Canyon National Park, but she never arrived.Her children, ages […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The aunt of Conrad Roy, a Massachusetts teenager who died of carbon monoxide poisoning after locking himself in his truck, hopes Roy's then-girlfriend, Michelle Carter, gets the maximum possible sentence for urging him to commit suicide. But Carter's father is pleading for probation, saying she "made a tragic mistake."Carter, now 20, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter earlier this summer in connection with Roy's death, and she is […]

iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) -- The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to Minneapolis to investigate the explosion that caused a school building to collapse Wednesday, killing two staff members and injuring several others. NTSB officials are expected to hold a briefing this afternoon. The Minneapolis Fire Department said the explosion at Minnehaha Academy was caused by a gas leak and said contractors were doing construction on the gas lines at […]