Barbara Gagne 
Roanoke, VA — A coworker dared me to find tacos better than her favorite spot, and I never turn down a food challenge. She’d been talking it up for weeks, so I grabbed a notebook and set out across the Roanoke Valley to prove her wrong. The first basket of chips changed everything. They came … Read more
BURNS HARBOR, Ind. — A local family is grieving after a father of six lost his life in a workplace accident at the Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor steel plant in northwest Indiana. Jonathan Stepp was operating a pot hauler at the facility Thursday night when the accident occurred, according to officials with the United Steelworkers Union. … Read more
GARLAND, TX — A recent high school graduate from Rowlett has been missing for over a week, just days before she was supposed to leave for her freshman year of college, and her family is pleading with the public for help. Camila Fuentes graduated from Hockaday High School with a scholarship to Villanova University, where … Read more
A search is underway for a black tow truck that struck and killed a man Sunday night in South Philadelphia before speeding away, according to police. The crash happened around 9:30 p.m. at the intersection of 26th Street and Penrose Avenue, a busy corner in the neighborhood. Officers say the truck hit the man and … Read more
An off-duty Philadelphia police officer is dead after he and another man were shot outside a lounge in Southwest Philadelphia early Sunday morning. Investigators say the gunfire broke out near 73rd Street and Elmwood Avenue just before 4 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026. The officer, 29-year-old Alhassane Barry, was hit multiple times along with … Read more
A routine traffic stop in downtown Memphis turned into a murder investigation after officers discovered a woman’s body in the passenger seat of the car they had pulled over. Police say 50-year-old Tyronne Brazille of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had been driving through multiple states with his wife’s body beside him before he was stopped for … Read more
MURRAY, Utah — A father in this Salt Lake City suburb is facing serious charges after his 6-month-old daughter died in what police describe as a basement filled with human and animal waste. Neal Colby, 32, has been charged with reckless child abuse homicide and child endangerment in connection with the death of his infant … Read more
A revenge plot gone tragically wrong has landed a Hampton County man behind bars for the next three decades. Franklin Radell Smoak Jr., 27, was sentenced to 30 years in prison this week after pleading guilty to murder in the shooting death of 32-year-old Terrance Fields, according to the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office. He also … Read more
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A Wisconsin man will spend nearly two decades in prison after a drunken, wrong-way crash on Interstate 43 ended a pregnant woman’s hopes of becoming a mother. Jorge Alvarez-Mathuzima, 40, was sentenced to 17 years in prison followed by eight years of probation on Friday after pleading guilty to first-degree reckless homicide, … Read more
Two workers at an Iowa care facility are facing criminal charges after authorities say they confined adults with special needs to a basement and withheld their prescribed medications for months. Praise Gahn, 22, and Zarkpa Green, 44, allegedly used a metal bar to barricade a basement door at a Balance Autism group home in Polk … Read more