PHILADELPHIA—A teenager awaiting trial in a homicide case who escaped outside a Philadelphia hospital last week was captured on Sunday, police said. Shane Pryor was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service, said Sgt. Eric Gripp with the Philadelphia Police Department. The marshals will hand the 17-year-old over to police homicide detectives, Mr. Gripp […]
INDIANAPOLIS—An Indiana man charged with killing two teenage girls confessed multiple times to the murders in a phone call to his wife while in prison, according to court documents released Wednesday. Richard Matthew Allen allegedly told his wife, Kathy Allen, in an April 3 phone call that he killed Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, […]
The mother of Aiden Fucci, a Florida teenager convicted of first-degree murder for stabbing a 13-year-old to death in 2021, changed her plea Friday from “not guilty” to “no contest” on charges of evidence tampering related to her son’s case. Crystal Smith, 38, pleaded no contest to a charge of tampering with evidence, a third-degree […]
URBANA, Ill.—A central Illinois man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a 14-year-old boy and dumping his body in a roadside ditch. A judge sentenced Daryl Vandyke, 57, on Wednesday after the of Champaign man admitted that he used an ax or other sharp-edged garden tool to kill […]
A teenage pilot flying a single-engine plane with several family members on board made an emergency landing near a two-lane highway in the San Bernardino National Forest in California on Monday. “We’re coming through the pass and I hear a boom and then I lose all my engine power,” pilot Brock Peters, 18, told CNN […]
TORONTO—Eight teenage girls who apparently met on social media have been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 59-year-old man in Toronto, police said Tuesday. Investigators allege that the girls assaulted and stabbed the man in the city’s downtown core early Sunday morning. Toronto Police said medics took the man to a […]
This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. In this heartwarming inspirational film, a teenage girl battling cancer hopes to find her first true love. Destiny brings her together with a runaway. Together, they witness a miracle and a love deeper than she could have ever expected.
RIVERSIDE, Calif.—A Virginia sheriff’s deputy posed as a 17-year-old boy online and asked a teenage California girl for nude photos before he drove across the country and killed her mother and grandparents, and set fire to their home, authorities said. Austin Lee Edwards, 28, died by suicide on Nov. 25 during a shootout with San […]
CLIFTON, Va. — Robert F. Horan Jr., who secured a murder conviction of D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo during his four-decade tenure as the top prosecutor in Virginia’s largest county, died on Friday at his home. He was 90. The cause of Horan’s death at his home in Clifton, Virginia, wasn’t immediately determined, but he […]
PASADENA, Calif.—Three teenage boys were killed in Southern California when the car they were in struck a curb, collided with a fence, and rolled over on an embankment, authorities said. The single-vehicle crash happened around 8:30 p.m. Sunday near an intersection in Pasadena, according to the California Highway Patrol. Preliminary reports that the 2005 Honda […]
DENVER—Two of three teenage boys will be tried as adults for charges of murder and arson in a Denver house fire that killed five Senegalese immigrants, including two young children, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour, both 16, are charged with five dozen counts of murder, arson, conspiracy, attempted murder, and related […]
NEW YORK—Vaping by U.S. teenagers fell dramatically this year, especially among middle schoolers, according to a federal report released Wednesday. Experts think last year’s outbreak of vaping related illnesses and deaths may have scared off some kids, but they believe other factors contributed to the drop, including higher age limits and flavor bans. In a […]
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam called Cyntoia Brown’s life sentence “unjust” and said his office is looking into clemency for the former teenage sex trafficking victim serving life in prison for murder. “We’re reviewing a lot of cases, and while Cyntoia’s case has gotten a lot of publicity, I don’t think you want us to treat […]
A 15-year-old Russian martial arts champion was electrocuted when she dropped her iPhone in the bathtub, according to local reports. A rising star in the world of Pankration, Irina Rybnikova was was found dead in the bathtub in her home in Siberia by her parents. Rybnikova had died instantly of heart failure when her phone, […]
Many people when they are growing up can have a disdainful attitude towards their families. Their world can be all about their friends and indulgences in drugs. Only few get fortunate to have an opportunity for self-transformation and their lives become important stories. Former WCW and WWE champion, Marc Mero has a similar story to share. […]
