Barbara Gagne 
LACEY TOWNSHIP, New Jersey — A young woman with her whole life ahead of her did not make it home Friday afternoon. A baby who had no say in any of it got hurt. And a stretch of one of New Jersey’s busiest highways went quiet for nearly three hours. The crash happened shortly before … Read more
ELKINS, West Virginia — Three children finally spoke up. And what they described inside the Child Advocacy Center on May 18 was enough to send a Randolph County woman to jail on serious child abuse charges. Sara Daniels, 36, now faces three counts of child abuse resulting in injury — one for each child who … Read more
SLANESVILLE, West Virginia — Somewhere, a family does not yet know what happened Saturday morning on a rural West Virginia road. A 10-year-old child is dead. And the people who loved that child are still waiting — unaware — for a knock on the door that will change everything. The single-vehicle crash was reported near … Read more
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — A 15-year-old girl left bleeding on a sidewalk. Her boyfriend sprinting away into the dark. And a grandmother who had no idea what had just happened when he came running back to her door. That is how the night of Sept. 21, 2025 ended for Azoria Jones — and how it began … Read more
OAKLAND, California — Kimarii McLemore was 25 years old and one day away from finishing her carpentry program. She had made it to the last class. That morning, she texted her mother. There was a suspicious car in the parking lot, she said. Something felt wrong. Her mother drove straight to the school to check … Read more
MIAMI, Florida — A 61-year-old woman was simply walking down the street on a Tuesday afternoon. She was not in an argument. She had no idea what was about to happen. As she passed a man walking in the opposite direction, he swung at her face without warning, knocking her to the ground before running … Read more
MARIETTA, Georgia — A neighbor remembers seeing little Messiah Harris just days ago, cradled in the arms of his mother’s boyfriend. “He was holding him and saying he was fixing to be three,” the neighbor recalled. Messiah never made it to that birthday. A Missing Child Report That Did Not Add Up On Friday afternoon, … Read more
CULVER CITY, California — Brandon Mendez was just trying to get out of the way. The 19-year-old saw a car blowing through red lights that June evening and stepped aside. The driver swerved anyway — and hit him at 80 miles per hour. “I was hit, and I was launched pretty far,” Mendez said. The … Read more
A massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake tore through western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 111 people and injuring 87 others in what officials are calling the strongest quake to ever hit the country. The tremor struck around 8:34 a.m. near San José del Palmar in the rural Chocó province, roughly 250 miles from Bogotá, according to … Read more
WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin — A 4-year-old boy named Dante Campbell is dead. And the two adults who were supposed to protect him chose to look the other way. His mother, Charlotte Kurek, 31, pleaded guilty this week to child neglect with death and chronic child neglect. Court records confirm she knew her son was being … Read more