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A suspected MS-13 gang member with a violent criminal history has been arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, after a year on the run, police said.According to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), Leonel Vargas Jr., 24, was arrested Wednesday afternoon. Davidson County jail records show that he has been charged with felony aggravated assault by strangulation, felony aggravated burglary, felony probation violation, misdemeanor domestic assault and two counts of misdemeanor theft of […]

Massachusetts authorities are investigating the death of a woman found unresponsive off a bike path in Springfield on Tuesday.Springfield Police Department spokesperson Ryan Walsh said officers responded to reports of an unresponsive person near a bike path at the 1500 block of Hall of Fame Avenue.Upon arrival, officers discovered a woman who was pronounced dead shortly after."The SPD Homicide Unit under the direction Captain Trent Duda is conducting an unattended […]

A spring break car crash near a popular Florida tourist destination left three Massachusetts high school seniors dead and one critically injured on Monday. Concord-Carlisle High School seniors Jimmy McIntosh and Hannah Wasserman died Monday night after their SUV crashed into a tractor-trailer in Panama City Beach, Florida, according to Boston25. A third student, Maisey O’Donnell, also a senior and a state champion diver, died on Tuesday from injuries sustained in […]

A Chicago fire captain and father of four died while responding to a garage inferno Wednesday morning on the city's west side, triggering a "mayday" alarm.Capt. David Meyer, 54, leaves behind his parents, wife, three daughters and one son, according to Chicago Fire Department (CFD) Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt.A garage fire was called in just after 4 a.m. Wednesday, and after firefighters extinguished the flames, the garage collapsed during salvage and […]

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing back against Paul Flores, the man convicted of murdering California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) freshman Kristin Smart in 1996, for his request to overturn or reduce his convictions, calling his request "meritless." Flores is currently serving a 25-year-to-life sentence for Smart's murder following a three-month trial in October 2022. In a new 107-page court filing, Flores' defense claimed that Monterey County Superior Court Judge […]

Two police officers are in the hospital after exchanging gunfire with a suspect during a traffic stop on Wednesday in Fairfax County, Virginia.The shooting happened at about 3 p.m. in the 4000 block of Majestic Lane, according to the Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD). The location is near Greenbriar Town Center, a popular shopping destination with dozens of retailers in Chantilly.Two officers, who have not yet been publicly identified, were […]

New York authorities on Wednesday announced the identification of a woman previously only known as "Peaches" and her toddler, whose deaths have been looked at in connection to the Gilgo Beach serial killings case on Long Island.Authorities identified the mother as Tanya Denise Jackson — previously only known as "Peaches" because of her distinctive peach tattoo — and the baby as Tatiana Marie Dykes. Police located Jackson's torso in Hempstead […]

Princeton University and its Department of Public Safety are searching for a 23-year-old student who vanished on April 19 after he was last seen near a campus library.Lauren Blackburn, 23, of Indiana, was spotted near the Firestone Library around 6 p.m. Saturday before his disappearance. The student is a former staff writer for the university's newspaper, The Daily Princetonian.Vice President for Student Life W. Rochelle Calhoun said in an email to […]

The Texas Lottery Commission's executive director, Ryan Mindell, resigned Monday, according to a media release.Mindell's exit comes as the agency faces at least two investigations ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott and state Attorney General Ken Paxton into the integrity of the lottery prizes, and how the state handled the introduction of courier companies that buy and send tickets on behalf of customers online."Lottery couriers are unregulated service providers that take […]