Year: 2017

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation(CULLEOKA, Tenn.) -- After more than a month on the run amid a nationwide manhunt, former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins was found with his 15-year-old student, Elizabeth Thomas, in far northern California.Cummins was arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and sexual contact with a minor. On Friday, the FBI took custody of Cummins under a federal warrant, which supersedes all local charges. The FBI is expected […]

Adell Forbes(NEW YORK) -- One mother from Georgia is taking legal action after her 14-year-old son died while on a class trip to Belize last year, and is warning other parents to "trust no one" when it comes to sending your children on international school trips.Tomari Jackson, 14, was on a trip with his North Cobb High School Biology class last February in Belize when he died after drowning in […]

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation(CULLEOKA, Tenn.) -- After more than a month on the run amid a nationwide manhunt, former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins was found with his 15-year-old student, Elizabeth Thomas, in far northern California.Cummins was arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and sexual contact with a minor. On Friday, the FBI took custody of Cummins under a federal warrant, which supersedes all local charges. The FBI is expected […]

Adell Forbes(NEW YORK) -- One mother from Georgia is taking legal action after her 14-year-old son died while on a class trip to Belize last year, and is warning other parents to "trust no one" when it comes to sending your children on international school trips.Tomari Jackson, 14, was on a trip with his North Cobb High School Biology class last February in Belize when he died after drowning in […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- An Oregon man was arrested after police said he poured gasoline on a stranger and then lit him on fire at a Denny's restaurant in Happy Valley, Oregon, ABC affiliate KATU reported on Thursday.The 24-year old man, identified by police as Deshaun Swanger according to KATU, was arrested shortly before 8 p.m. local time. Police said the suspect poured liquid onto the victim, a 69-year old man […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The state of Arkansas carried out its first execution in 12 years on Thursday just before midnight, after a series of rejected appeals that reached all the way up to the Supreme Court cleared the way for 51-year-old Ledell Lee to be put to death by lethal injection.The execution took place after several last-minute appeals temporarily postponed the execution, which was initially scheduled for 7:00 p.m. CST.Arkansas […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- An Oregon man was arrested after police said he poured gasoline on a stranger and then lit him on fire at a Denny's restaurant in Happy Valley, Oregon, ABC affiliate KATU reported on Thursday.The 24-year old man, identified by police as Deshaun Swanger according to KATU, was arrested shortly before 8 p.m. local time. Police said the suspect poured liquid onto the victim, a 69-year old man […]