Barbara Gagne 
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A 26-year-old man will spend the next 18 years behind bars after investigators say he beat a toddler to death over a diaper accident and then tried to cover it up with a drowning story. Dioblis Williams was sentenced this week to between 13 and 18 and a half years in prison … Read more
BOULDER, Colorado — Officers arrived to find a barefoot toddler standing on a second-floor balcony in nothing but a diaper, crying into the dark for someone to help her. It was just after 10:30 p.m. on a Tuesday when a neighbor called 911 after hearing the child’s cries. When police got to the apartment, the … Read more
GLENDALE, Arizona — Police say a mother was so drunk she had no idea her toddler was suffocating just feet away from her. Officers responded to a home near 67th Avenue and Cholla Street just before 11 p.m. on August 1 after a 911 caller reported a young child trapped inside while the mother lay … Read more
PALM COAST, Florida — A woman who had just moved to Florida from Virginia found herself stalked, threatened, and robbed of the one thing she had left of her dead son — because a man she dated for a few weeks could not accept that it was over. Justin Fountain, 31, is now facing charges … Read more
PEORIA, Arizona — A family was coming home from a Thanksgiving celebration. A teenager was behind the wheel of a Jeep, high on marijuana and driving at 115 mph in a 40 mph zone. Five people never made it home. Bjorn Hartzell, now 20, was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison after pleading … Read more
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — A woman on vacation with her husband stepped away for just a moment to grab a face mask from their car. She never made it back. Clarice Yamaguchi, 66, was walking through a parking garage at the Fashion Show Mall on the Las Vegas Strip when two men pulled up in … Read more
NEEDLES, California — An elderly man in a wheelchair was physically attacked multiple times before anyone could stop it — and the man accused of doing it is now behind bars in San Bernardino County. Deputies from the Colorado River Station responded on July 30 to a reported disturbance near the 3000 block of Needles … Read more
BALTIMORE, Maryland — If Tuesday felt like a breath of fresh air, enjoy the memory. Muggy conditions and stormy weather are back in Maryland as of Wednesday, and the forecast only gets more intense heading into the weekend. Wednesday Brings Heavy Rain and Flood Risk Overnight temperatures are settling into the 70s, but the humidity … Read more
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — If you are stepping outside Wednesday, bring an umbrella — and maybe extra hairspray too. Pop-up showers and thunderstorms are likely throughout the day across the Philadelphia region as a warm front pushes through the area. Widespread severe weather is not expected, but pockets of moderate to heavy rain are possible, so … Read more
ST. LOUIS, Missouri — Storms are on the way Wednesday, and forecasters are warning they could pack a punch before the day is done. An upper-level disturbance is set to trigger afternoon storm development across a corridor stretching from Missouri into central Illinois on August 5. St. Louis, Springfield, Missouri, Peoria, and Quincy all fall … Read more