An Alabama man’s fishing trip to a popular lake was interrupted after he found human remains inside a vehicle that belonged to someone who had gone missing over a decade previously.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release that an unidentified fisherman called police on Friday.
The fisherman said that he had spotted what appeared to be a truck in the murky waters of Weiss Lake in Cherokee County, Alabama.
When local police arrived, they pulled out a truck and were shocked to find human remains inside.
Police said that the vehicle matched with a missing person, Oscar Lewis King, who was first reported missing more than a decade ago in north Alabama.
King, who mysteriously disappeared in 2013, was 74 at the time of his disappearance.
At the time of his disappearance, local stations reported that King’s truck was a blue 2001 Dodge Dakota truck.
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said that the remains are being sent to a forensics lab for identity confirmation.
A 16-year-old boy from Pittsburg was fatally wounded in the morning after being shot, police said.
Antioch officers arrived on the scene at the 1700 block of Observation Way at approximately 5:12 a.m. to find the teen boy with at least one gunshot wound seated inside a vehicle.
Officers on site administered life-saving measures until they were relieved by ConFire and paramedics.
The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.
The identity of the victim is not being released at this time.
After canvassing the area, police found that the shooting occurred in the 2000 block of Tupelo Way, about two miles from the crime scene.
The Antioch Police Department’s Investigations Bureau, comprised of Crime Scene Investigators and detectives with the Violent Crimes Unit assumed control of the investigation.
This is an active investigation, and no additional information will be disclosed at this time.
A small plane crash near an airport in southern Ohio has claimed the lives of three people, authorities said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the single-engine Piper PA-32 went down near James A. Rhodes Airport in Jackson at about 1:30 p.m.
The Jackson County sheriff’s office said three fatalities had been confirmed, the office said.
No further information was immediately available about the victims, whether other people were aboard, or where the aircraft originated and was bound.
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.
The Jackson County airport is located about 80 miles (130 kilometers) south-southeast of Columbus and about 120 miles (193 kilometers) east of Cincinnati.
The suspect charged in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student has been confirmed as an illegal immigrant originally from Venezuela, Fox News Digital has learned.
26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, the suspect charged in the murder of nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus, is a Venezuelan national who crossed illegally into El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released into the U.S. via parole, three ICE & DHS sources told Fox News.
ICE does not currently have an official comment on the situation.
Ibarra was taken into custody by UGA police on Friday. He measures 5 feet 3 inches and weighs 170 pounds, according to the Clarke County Sheriff’s Department’s booking sheet. Laken measured 5 feet 4 inches, weighing 115 pounds, according to a UGA Police Department report.
Police have charged Ibarra with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call and concealing the death of another, UGA Police Chief Jeffrey L. Clark said during a news briefing Friday evening.
Ibarra appeared in court on Saturday morning, where Clarke County Magistrate Judge Donarell Green denied his bond “for today.” Two translators were present. Ibarra nodded when spoken to.
Riley, an Augusta University nursing student, was found dead Thursday after previously attending UGA before entering a nursing program at Augusta’s Athens campus, where she made the Dean’s List.
Police initially swept up three to four people during the early stages of the investigation but were only arresting and charging Ibarra, Clark said.
Police were asking anyone who saw anything “relevant or suspicious” between 7 a.m. and noon Thursday around UGA’s Intramural Fields and Lake Herrick to call 706-542-2200.
That’s where they found Riley – with “visible injuries” – within 30 minutes after they received a call from a concerned friend who said she went for a run and didn’t come back.
According to an incident report obtained by Fox News Digital, multiple officers began searching for Riley near the Intramural Fields around 12:07 p.m. At 12:38, a UGA police officer spotted her on the ground.
“I called out to Riley, and I did not get a response,” the officer wrote.
She had visible injuries, and police could not locate a pulse. They began CPR anyway. A sergeant arrived with a defibrillator minutes later and unsuccessfully attempted to revive the victim.
Autopsy results remained pending Friday, but authorities said they were investigating her death as a homicide. Clark said it appeared as though she had been killed by blunt-force trauma.
Classes and events at both universities were canceled
Audrii Cunningham, the 11-year-old Texas girl who missed her school bus last week and was found dead in a river, died from blunt force trauma.
The Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office said the death was described as “homicidal violence” and her manner of death has been ruled a homicide following an autopsy, according to Fox 26 Houston.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the agency.
An Amber Alert was issued for Cunningham after she failed to board the school bus on Feb. 15 and did not attend school.
She was found dead in a river and had a “large rock” tied to her body, authorities said. Officials have charged Don Steven McDougal, 42, with capital murder of a person between the ages of 10 and 15.
“The rope used was consistent with rope that was observed in [suspect Don] McDougal’s vehicle on a traffic stop two days prior,” charging documents state.
McDougal, a family friend who lived in a trailer behind Cunningham’s residence in Livingston, was initially taken into custody on Feb. 16 on an unrelated charge of aggravated assault.
He was tied to three locations of interest through cellphone data, investigators said. Cunningham was tied to two of those locations, including the Trinity River near the US Highway 59 bridge in Livingston, where she was found dead.
McDougal has a criminal history dating back to the early 2000s, when he was accused of dozens of crimes, and was convicted on two child enticement charges in 2008.
“He was probably taking her to… the bus stop, and we do feel that he was the last person to see Audrii,” Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons said of McDougal during a press conference, adding that there were “some occasions” when McDougal would take Cunningham to the bus stop or Lyons said McDougal admitted to leaving with Cunningham on Thursday morning but didn’t confirm if she boarded the bus to school.
The father of Harmony Montgomery was convicted this week of murdering his 5-year-old daughter in 2019.
a jury in New Hampshire found Adam Montgomery, 34, guilty of all five charges, including second-degree murder, second-degree assault, witness tampering, falsifying evidence and abuse of corpse, according to The Boston Globe, NBC Boston, and WMUR-TV.
The trial reportedly lasted two weeks and the jury delivered a verdict after about one day of deliberation that began Wednesday. According to WMUR-TV, Adam is scheduled to be sentenced sometime after April 1 and was not present in court when the verdict was read or throughout the trial.
Adam was accused of beating Harmony to death in December 2019, after she became incontinent in their car. Harmony’s remains have never been found.
After the attack, Adam allegedly “pulled into that parking lot at Burger King and he ordered his food,” prosecutor Christopher Knowles said during opening statements, per CBS News.
“He ordered his food and he ate. He didn’t stop to check on Harmony. He didn’t look back at her. He didn’t show any concern for this innocent little girl, the child he had just beaten. He ordered his food, and he ate. And he didn’t stop.”
In the months after the girl’s death, Adam toted Harmony’s body — in a red Under Armour duffel bag, tied up in trash bags — all over Manchester, N.H.
Authorities said he placed Harmony’s body in a cooler and stowed her over a vent in a shelter he shared with his wife and two sons. Then, authorities allege, he placed Harmony’s body into a closet when neighbors complained of the smell, and then snuck her remains into his workplace freezer.
According to the Globe, Kayla testified that she complied with her husband’s demands to help him move Harmony’s remains out of fear for her safety and the safety of her two sons. However, defense attorneys reportedly argued that Kayla concocted a story that pinned the blame on her husband.
During opening statements, Adam admitted in a video call to the presiding judge that he was guilty of abuse of a corpse and falsifying evidence, NBC Boston reported.
Adam is currently serving serving a 30-year prison sentence for an unrelated gun conviction, according to the Globe.
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Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, according to representatives for Williams.
The news was shared in a press release to “correct inaccurate and hurtful rumors about her health,” a care team for Williams wrote in a statement.
“As Wendy’s fans are aware, in the past she has been open with the public about her medical struggles with Graves’ Disease and Lymphedema as well as other significant challenges related to her health,” the press release states. “Over the past few years, questions have been raised at times about Wendy’s ability to process information and many have speculated about Wendy’s condition, particularly when she began to lose words, act erratically at times, and have difficulty understanding financial transactions.”
Williams received her aphasia and dementia diagnoses in 2023 from Weill Cornell Medicine, according to her representatives.
The condition impacts communication, personality and the ability to understand language, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“The decision to share this news was difficult and made after careful consideration, not only to advocate for understanding and compassion for Wendy, but to raise awareness about aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.”
CNN has contacted Williams’ care team for further comment.
Williams is currently under a court-ordered guardianship. A Lifetime documentary about and produced by Williams with the participation of her family is set to release this weekend.
CNN has reached out to Williams’ family and Lifetime for comment.
Williams was the host of her eponymous “The Wendy Williams Show” until 2022, when Sherri Shepherd took over her time slot. Prior to the show’s end, Williams had been absent from hosting duties since the premiere of the 13th season, which ended up being its last. At the time, the show attributed her absence to Williams’ recovery from Covid-19 and later said she was struggling with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder.
“The Wendy Williams Show” was created by Williams and debuted in 2008 from studios in New York City. She began her career in radio and developed a reputation for her quick wit and no-filter interviews. She was known for her candor, which also ruffled a few feathers among those in entertainment along the way.
Williams often prided herself on being candid with her viewers as well. She has been open about her previous struggle with addiction. In 2019, she spoke on the show about living in a sober house after seeking treatment for drug use. She filed for divorce from her husband, Kevin Hunter, the same year.
A young girl has died and a boy was hospitalized in critical condition after they fell into a sand hole and got trapped at a beach in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
Broward Sheriff’s deputies and paramedics responded after 3:16 p.m. to the 4400 block of El Mar Drive, where footage from Chopper 6 showed crowds of people standing around a massive sand hole that was roped off.
Two children — a 9-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl — were taken to the hospital in critical condition. BSO later confirmed that the girl died.
Sloan Mattingly was identified as a young girl who died, and Maddox Mattingly is her older brother who was critically injured.
An initial report from BSO stated Sloan was five years old, but investigators have since confirmed she was seven.
Witnesses said the children were digging the hole and playing around before the ground gave way. The sand hole was about 5- to 6-feet deep, according to Sandra King, a spokesperson for Pompano Beach Fire Rescue.
Cellphone video from a witness showed desperate beachgoers using their hands to dig sand out of the hole as they tried to rescue the kids trapped underneath.
The first deputies arrived about four minutes after the collapse, with paramedics and firefighters arriving moments later, according to 911 calls released by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday.
Rescuers used support boards to keep sand from collapsing further in as they used shovels with the help of good Samaritans to dig the children out, King said. She said it wasn’t clear how long they were buried.
According to a 2007 report in the New England Journal of Medicine, between 1997 and 2007, there were 52 documented instances of people who became buried in holes due to sand that collapsed, 31 of those cases resulting in death. The victims ranged in age between 3 and 21 years old.
Last week, a 2-year-old boy was playing on a New Jersey beach when the sand collapsed and buried him alive. The boy’s father was able to quickly save him from the sand pit.
In 2022, a 35-year-old man was found with his feet sticking out of the sand along the Treasure Coast. The victim had his legs up and was leaning back on some sand when it collapsed. Somebody noticed his body three hours later.
Police in Fort Lauderdale are investigating after a teen said he accidentally shot himself and another was arrested after being found with a gun at Dillard High School.
The incident began just after 9 a.m. when a 16-year-old arrived at Broward Health Medical Center with a gunshot wound, Fort Lauderdale Police officials said.
The teen, who suffered non-life threatening injuries, told officers he’d accidentally shot himself in the 1100 block of Northwest 24th Street.
After the shooting, a student at Dillard High on Northwest 11th Street was found with a gun on campus, police said.
That student, a 15-year-old, was detained without incident and later arrested on a charge of possession of a firearm on school property, police said.
Detectives believe both incidents are related and are working to gather more information.
Police later said the backpack the 15-year-old had contained personal items belonging to the 16-year-old and said other evidence consistent with the shooting were found in the backpack and on the 16-year-old at the hospital.
