The disappearance more than three weeks ago of a teenager living alone on a remote Utah farm has sparked a criminal investigation. Dylan Rounds (Family photograph via Box Elder County sheriff) Dylan Rounds, 19, has not been heard from since he called his grandmother on May 28, a Saturday. His phone data indicates that he…
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SAN FRANCISCO — A 22-year-old man killed early Sunday when the stopped car he was a passenger in was struck from behind by another vehicle was identified by the medical examiner’s office Tuesday as Ismael Vidal Ramirez, of Contra Costa County. The California Highway Patrol investigation into the death was continuing Tuesday. Charges were also…
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NFL star Deshaun Watson has reached confidential settlements in 20 of the 24 sexual misconduct lawsuits filed against him. The announcement came Tuesday from Tony Buzbee, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs. “Today I announce that all cases against Deshaun Watson, with the exception of four, have settled. We are working through the paperwork related to…
By Amy Simonson | CNN A hiker rescued from “treacherous” conditions on a trail near Mt. Washington in New Hampshire’s Presidential Mountain Range died after suffering from severe hypothermia, state officials said Monday. Xi Chen, 53, of Andover, Massachusetts, was attempting to hike the Gulfside Trail in the Presidential Range when he was “overcome by…
The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety on Tuesday slammed the law enforcement response to last month’s mass shooting in Uvalde as an “abject failure” and harshly criticized the decisions of Uvalde school district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo. “There is compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb…
CROCKETT — A man and a boy were found dead inside a home last week in what the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office called a murder-suicide. Deputies were sent to a home in the 1200 block of Pomona Street about 8:30 p.m. on June 17 after receiving reports that there were two people dead inside a…
“Varsity Blues” moms and dads are back to their jet-setting ways hobnobbing in Fiji, Ireland, England, Scotland, Turkey and Germany. But one college admissions cheater on home confinement isn’t so lucky. San Diego television executive Elisabeth Kimmel, under house arrest for a year for scamming her kids into Georgetown University and the University of Southern…
By Tierney Sneed, Ariane de Vogue, Jessica Schneider and Paul LeBlanc | CNN The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Virginia man who is seeking to challenge one of his convictions for using a firearm in an attempted robbery. The ruling will allow the man to attempt to reduce his sentence by 10 years….
Considered one of California’s most violent cities a decade ago, Antioch continues to see decreases in violent crimes, recent data shows. Part 1 crimes, such as homicides, sexual assaults, rape, aggravated assaults, are down by about 2,000 in the last 10 years, data shows, interim Antioch Police Chief Steve Ford said during a recent Antioch…
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A driver was killed in a Highway 4 crash Sunday morning, with the wreck going unnoticed for almost seven hours. His passenger was rescued from the car, upside-down in a ditch. The crash was reported at 7:15 a.m. just west of the Middle River Bridge and 5 miles east of Discovery Bay, the California Highway…
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