Two people in police custody in the disappearance of Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney in Birmingham, Alabama, have been charged in unrelated cases, the city’s police chief said. The two are still persons of interest in the 3-year-old’s disappearance because video evidence and witnesses connect them to the vehicle police recovered over the weekend, Birmingham Police Chief…… MORE
A man suspected of slashing three people to death — two in Florida and one in Tennessee — was arrested in Winter Park, Florida, after barricading himself in a house for six hours, shooting at sheriff’s deputies and fighting a K-9 officer that found him hiding under a pool table, authorities said Tuesday. The standoff…… MORE
A first-grader in Wisconsin lost his tooth. And, in an upsetting turn, he lost his lost tooth. Luckily for him, his principal stepped in and saved the day. Curt Angeli, the principal at Gillett Elementary in Wisconsin, wrote a letter to the Tooth Fairy to certify that his first-grade student had actually lost his tooth.…… MORE
Michigan became the first state to last month to ban flavored e-cigarette sales, but that change may be reversed. A judge on Michigan’s Court of Claims issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday blocking the state from enforcing the temporary six-month ban of flavored e-cigarettes. “We are resolute in our efforts on behalf of Governor Whitmer and…… MORE
Firefighters in Northern California were battling a blaze at a refinery on Tuesday, officials said. The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office issued a shelter in place notification because of the release of hazardous materials from the fire. Three large ethanol tanks were burning at a NuStar Energy facility in Crockett, located south of Vallejo, the…… MORE
Chiefs of tribal nations that once inhabited Georgia say that the Atlanta Braves’ tomahawk chop is insensitive and inappropriate. The comments from Cherokee and Creek chiefs come after the Atlanta Braves said the team would hold a “continued dialogue” with Native Americans during the Major League Baseball offseason about whether to keep the decades-old tradition.…… MORE
Detectives have seen body camera footage and heard an 8-year-old boy tell them how Atatiana Jefferson died but the officer who shot her has not shared his side of the story. Aaron Dean, a former Fort Worth police officer, was charged with murder after Jefferson was shot and killed through her window. He was arrested…… MORE
Dallas Baptist University evacuated its campus and canceled classes following a bomb threat on Tuesday, the university announced on Twitter. DBU tweeted at 4:22 p.m. that campus police had received a “bomb and coordinated armed threat” to campus. No injuries were reported, and the campus was evacuated out of “an abundance of caution,” the school…… MORE
Students at a Montana elementary school were evacuated on Tuesday when someone found what was initially thought to be a homemade bomb on a playground. Officials later said the suspicious object at Rossiter Elementary School was not an improvised explosive device, or IED, and didn’t explode, as was initially reported. The object was actually a…… MORE
A skull and other bone fragments that were found on a remote Pacific island may, in fact, belong to the famous female aviator Amelia Earhart. But it may take modern DNA testing to help researchers close the case. The bones were found found on Nikumaroro, a remote island in the western Pacific Ocean, in 1940.…… MORE
