Sheriff’s investigators will brief the public in Monterey Park as Los Angeles County offers a $15,000 reward in the 2024 killing of Damon Bluthenthal, found in a Compton parking lot.

A girl believed to be about 6 was found early Tuesday on Southern Avenue SE near the Maryland line; MPD released a photo and is asking for tips.

A 32-year-old Walpole man died after his SUV knocked down a utility pole and crashed into the Budget Inn on Route 1 in Westwood; crews extricated him and he later died at a Boston hospital.

A federal complaint says Austin ISD and ex-LBJ band teacher Rodney Childers groomed and sexually abused a student over months; criminal charges and a civil suit are pending.

Customs officers at BWI cleared a toddler's airway after he began choking in the arrivals line; the child was taken to a Baltimore hospital and is stable.

Court filings unsealed late June tie phone images and a Radical Firearms RF‑15 rifle to the June 24 Detroit shooting that killed a man and wounded a child.

A Portland Police Stolen Vehicle Operation recovered eight stolen cars and led to nine arrests after air units tracked fleeing suspects across the metro.

A 15-year-old has been charged after a South Street shooting left another teen seriously injured. Police say the investigation is active and more arrests may follow.

A Liberty Elementary teacher in Margate was fired and later arrested after allegedly bringing a stun gun onto campus; police say she showed it to colleagues and apologized.

An unnamed woman arrested in North Ridgeville was found dead inside the Lorain County Jail in Elyria; investigators await autopsy and toxicology results.

Crews extricated a passenger-car occupant after a semi and a car collided on SR 111 at Cagle Mountain; the Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating.

Federal prosecutors say Marc Sanchez cooked powder cocaine into crack in his Massachusetts Mills apartment and stored two loaded 9mm handguns in a safe. He pleaded guilty in Boston federal court this week.

A fatal crash closed both directions of White Settlement Road at Silver Ridge Boulevard East in Fort Worth on June 30. Officials asked motorists to seek alternate routes.