Three East Chicago Central High School officials are facing criminal charges after entering a student's home without permission to recover stolen property following a football game on October 25, 2024.
A 20-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday morning for attempting to sneak into Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Michael Aromando was apprehended by New York Police Department (NYPD) officers assigned to security detail at the residence shortly after the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration.
A tragic fireworks-related incident in the Salt Lake-Aliamanu neighborhood near Honolulu has claimed two lives and injured 22 others, according to local reports.
On December 24, 2024, Paul Clifford, a 53-year-old resident of Pima County, Arizona, was found deceased near a smoldering vehicle on a rugged dirt road close to Redington Pass and San Pedro River roads.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a man who is believed to have the greatest number of explosive devices in the bureau's history. The FBI found "more than 150 apparent explosive devices on the property, preliminarily assessed as the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history," court documents say.
After 43 years, the murder of 18-year-old Ohio waitress Debra Lee Miller has been solved through advanced DNA technology. Mansfield Police Chief Jason Bammann announced Monday that James Vanest, Miller’s upstairs neighbor at the time of her death, was conclusively identified as her killer. Vanest, who was 26 in 1981, was fatally shot in November while authorities attempted to serve him an indictment on unrelated federal gun charges.