18-year-old University of Alabama basketball player Devonta Pollard, and six other people were indicted on federal charges they conspired to kidnap 6-year-old Jashayla Hopson, a young girl from an Mississippi elementary school. Prosecutors said that Pollard's mother, Jesse Mae, led a scheme to kidnap the girl to pressure the child's mother in a land dispute, news reports said. Authorities said at one point kidnappers demanded a ransom set at $50,000.
Alexander Michael Herrera, the Alaska Airlines passenger accused of trying to open an emergency exit during a flight from Anchorage en route to Portland, told investigators that he had not been taken his medicine, and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
63-year-old Anthony Alvarez, a northern California man, reportedly shot his two adult daughters, killing one and critically injuring the other before apparently committing suicide with his three young grandchildren were in the home.
A police officer in Bardstown Kentucky was shot to death in an ambush along the highway exit ramp after leaving his to remove debris from from the road.
Six people were killed and 22 wounded in new gun violence that hit Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, UPI reported. On Friday evening, a 17-year-old girl was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, and 18-year-old man was shot in the chest in the same incident. Another man later that evening was shot and killed.
A gunman randomly firing from his pickup truck killed one person and wounded five, including the sheriff of Concho County, Texas on Sunday before the suspect was killed in a shootout with law enforcement. Authorities recovered an assault rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition by the 23-year-old suspect from North Carolina. The name was withheld pending notification of relatives
A 15-year-old Utah boy was arrested in connection with killing his two younger adopted brothers, who were aged 4 and 10. He apparently stabbed to death in their home while their mother was out at a musical recital, authorities said on Thursday. The unidentified teenager is being held at the Farmington Bay Youth Detention Center.
Miguel Schiappapietra, a Los Angeles police officer was arrested for allegedly commiting lewd acts on two children under 14. Schiappapietra was off duty when the arrest was made. Schiappapietra has been on the force for six years.
The search for Susan Powell, who was last seen on December 6, 2009 at her West Valley City, Utah home on December 6, 2009 home, has been called off by authorities. Powell was last been in her home, which she shared with Josh, her husband. He was the only person of interest ever named in the case. He denied ever having anything to do with his wife's disappearance before killing himself and the couple's sons last year when he set fire to their rented home in Washington.
The drifter, Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, better known as Kai, who became an Internet sensation just a couple months ago after a bizarre incident in Fresno, California when he used a hatchet to "save" someone who had just crashed into him, has been arrested. New Jersey police said that Kai is responsible for a deadly beating of a New Jersey lawyer.
24-year-old Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, known on Facebook as "Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchiker,"is being sought on murder charges for killing Joseph Galfy Jr, a New Jersey attorney found dead in his home on Monday. McGillvary's whereabouts are not yet known, as a press conference scheduled for late Thursday afternoon is expected to explain how he has come to be a suspect in the case.
A 10-year-old boy from Washington state was sentenced on Wednesday to up to 5 ½ in a juvenile detention facility for his role in a foiled plot to rape and kill a girl at his school, as well as to harm others.
O.J. Simpson, the ex-football star acquitted of murder in 1995, appeared in court on Monday in hopes of seeking a new trial in a Las Vegas armed robbery case that sent him to prison, Reuters reported. In this hearing, he is hoping to present a new case since his representation made blunders the last time around.
Michael Creed, a 25-year old from Newark Delaware was arrested and charged with first degree assault and possession of a deadly weapon in connection with the early Sunday morning stabbing of University of Delaware senior quarterback Trevor Sasek.
8-year-old Leila Fowler's stabbing murder two weeks ago led to a massive manhunt. It turns out, authorities said that the leading suspect is her 12-year-old brother.
Arizona authorities have arrested an 18-year-old Laquint Cherry, a Phoenix man, who was held in connection with a bomb threat that was tweeted after the Jodi Arias verdict was announced. Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputy Joaquin Enriquez said that Cherry was taken into custody early Thursday, and faced with a felony charge for making threats
Kathleen Dorsett, the 38-year-old former third-grade teacher and her parents pleaded guilty on Thursday to working together in an effort to kill her ex-husband, in a convoluted murder plot executed by her father Thomas. They also attempted to murder his mother. The father and daughter told a judge they were angry about the divorce decree and custody arrangements for the couple's daughter, who was 20 months old.
Authorities were investigating the bodies of two adult men and one woman whose bodies were found on a rural property in an eastern Kansas. Friends of the residents called police to report a foul site at the site.
James Holmes, the suspect in the deadly Colorado theater shootings last July, decided to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, his lawyers announced on Tuesday.
