Five employees of the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip were taken into custody Wednesday after authorities learned numerous bodies had been dug up and the grave sites were illegally resold, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said. Detectives discovered a pile ...Read More
Fewer than 300 family members visited scandal-plagued Burr Oak Cemetery as it finally reopened after four months Thursday -- far fewer than the thousands authorities had prepared for. Clutching computer printouts detailing the locations of their loved ones' graves, a slow ...Read More
ALSIP, Ill. -A Chicago-area cemetery that was shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots is open again. Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip reopened Thursday morning. People boarded a bus ...Read More
A single-engine plane crashed this afternoon in San Gabriel, killing the pilot. The plane took off from Brackett Field in La Verne and was headed to Van Nuys when it crashed in the 5100 block of Walnut Grove Avenue, Los Angeles ...Read More
PEARCY, Ark. (AP) - Authorities say they found four bodies in a burning mobile home in southwest Arkansas and another person was found dead inside a nearby house. Officials say around 2:30 Thursday morning authorities in Pearcy received a report of ...Read More
LEXINGTON, Mo. (Nov. 12) - An excavation was scheduled to resume Thursday at a rural western Missouri property where authorities believe they may find bodies and buried glass jars with notes written by children who may have documented sexual abuse. The ...Read More
LEXINGTON, Mo. -- Authorities were searching a rural property in western Missouri yesterday for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who might have documented sexual abuse by five members of their ...Read More
(CNN) -- Investigators are searching the property that once belonged to one of five members of a Missouri family arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges for "a body or bodies," the Lafayette County sheriff said Wednesday.
Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said ...Read More
LEXINGTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday were searching a rural property in western Missouri for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five members ...Read More
LEXINGTON | Authorities are searching a rural property near Bates City, Mo., looking for bodies, as well as buried jars of written memories of anguish and horror allegedly left years ago by sexually abused children.
Indications are that “an individual or ...Read More
A pregnant woman was repeatedly beaten with a collapsible police baton before a "cutting instrument" was used to slice open her abdomen and remove her fetus, a detective testified Tuesday. Another woman, Korena Roberts, is accused of aggravated murder in the ...Read More
A gunman reportedly took the principal hostage at an upstate New York high school Tuesday, but the students are safe, a town official said. Police said that Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains, N.Y., was on lockdown because of an ...Read More
TERREBONNE, Ore.—Authorities say a 14-year-old boy is dead and his cousin is in custody after a bullet came through the wall of the motor home the boy was sleeping in at a central Oregon hunting camp and struck him in ...Read More
San Jacinto County Sheriff James Walters said Monday it appeared that a man fatally shot his girlfriend, her 4-year-old daughter and his adopted mother before killing himself. Walters says that the gunman "might have been off his medication." He declined to ...Read More
NEWNAN, Georgia - Comedian and rapper Katt Williams remained jailed in suburban Atlanta on Monday after police said they arrested the entertainer for breaking into a home. Williams, who police say is 38, is charged with burglary and criminal trespassing, according ...Read More
CLEVELAND, Texas — Authorities called to check on a family's well-being in a rural southeast Texas home found the bodies of four people who had been shot to death. San Jacinto County Sheriff James Walters said Monday it appeared that a ...Read More
TAMPA, Fla. -- Call it a deer home invasion. Two Pinellas County sheriff's deputies responded to calls of a house being burglarized Sunday morning. They found a broken window and there a blood trail. Once inside, though, they discovered that their suspect ...Read More
CLEVELAND — Every day has been an exercise in fear and uncertainty for the families of the 14 women who have disappeared from this city's east side.
Now the answers they've been looking for may lie in the three-story home of ...Read More
(CBS/Lenny Gemar/Dickinson Press)Photo: Ashley Neufeld, Kyrstin Gemar and Afton Williamson.
DICKINSON, N.D. (CBS/AP) The three Dickinson State University North Dakota softball players believed to have been on a stargazing trip were found dead inside a Jeep after signals from their last ...Read More
LAWNDALE, Calif. -- Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say a deputy has been shot and wounded in Lawndale. Deputy Byron Ward says the deputy was shot in the back or shoulder Tuesday night and taken to a hospital. Ward says the ...Read More
View full sizeCuyahoga County Sheriff Anthony E. SowellCLEVELAND, Ohio - Thirty-seven days passed between the time a woman told police Anthony Sowell choked and raped her in his house and when police went to Imperial Avenue to arrest him.
That time ...Read More
