Author: Edward Campbell

A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman was found fatally stabbed at an apartment in east Fort Worth early Sunday, according to police and court records. Officers were initially sent to the 2100 block of Handley Drive shortly before 2:45 a.m. on August 30. They were then directed to the 6000 block of Oakland Hills Drive, roughly two miles away, where they found a woman suffering from apparent stab wounds. Firefighters attempted to provide medical assistance, but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Police later identified 21-year-old Jaykel Addler Vanegas-Martinez as the person accused…

An early-morning crash near Forney left a 39-year-old woman dead and an 8-month-old baby with suspected serious injuries, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The crash happened at about 4:25 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, on US 80 near FM 460, where two vehicles were traveling eastbound. According to the preliminary investigation, a 25-year-old driver in an Infiniti QX3 was traveling in the exit lane toward FM 460 when the vehicle made an unsafe lane change and struck a Chevrolet Silverado traveling in the right lane. The impact sent the Silverado out of control. The pickup struck a concrete…

A 66-year-old woman from Vacaville was killed early Sunday morning after a suspected wrong-way driver crashed head-on into her vehicle on Interstate 505 in Solano County, authorities said. The collision happened at about 12:40 a.m. on southbound I-505, just south of Putah Creek Road. The woman was driving a 2026 Nissan Kicks when it was struck by a Chevrolet Tahoe traveling in the opposite direction. According to the preliminary investigation, the Tahoe was being driven by a 45-year-old man from Vallejo. Investigators believe he had missed an exit while traveling southbound and then made a U-turn on the freeway. He…

A Westmoreland County man accused of killing his mother was taken into custody Sunday evening after police spent hours searching for him in the West Newton area. Pennsylvania State Police identified the man as Jakob Michael Korber. Troopers had been searching for him after finding his mother, Christin E. Hamilton, dead at a home along Herminie West Newton Road in Sewickley Township. Police were called to the property around 9:30 a.m. Sunday after a report of an unresponsive woman. Troopers found Hamilton at the residence, where she was pronounced dead. The Westmoreland County coroner identified the woman as Hamilton. Her…

A 44-year-old Pittsburgh man was arrested after two University of Pittsburgh students separately reported that he touched them inappropriately in the area around Schenley Plaza, according to police and court records. Police said the first student reported that she was grabbed on the buttocks near Forbes Avenue and South Bouquet Street at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Officers began looking for a man matching her description and arrested him roughly 15 minutes later near Schenley Plaza. The suspect was identified as Alphonso Everett III, 44, of Pittsburgh. During the arrest, another woman approached officers and reported that the same man had…

A 28-year-old nurse returning home after an overnight shift at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn was killed Saturday morning after she was struck by a car in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The driver left the scene and remained at large as of Monday. Jiayi Zheng was crossing near 55th Street and Third Avenue shortly after 7:30 a.m. when she was hit by a southbound Cadillac sedan, according to police. Investigators said the vehicle was a 2014 Cadillac four-door sedan with Pennsylvania plates. Zheng suffered severe trauma to her head and body. She was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, the same hospital where she…

Two people were killed and eight others were wounded after multiple shooters opened fire on a large gathering in Trenton early Sunday morning, authorities said. The shooting happened shortly after midnight on the 100 block of Locust Street in the Wilbur section of East Trenton. Trenton police responded to reports of gunfire at about 12:25 a.m. and found multiple people suffering from gunshot wounds. According to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, a 33-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man died from their injuries. The eight other victims—two women and six men between the ages of 23 and 43—were taken to Capital…

A 67-year-old New York City man is in intensive care after being found badly injured on the tracks at a Queens subway station, nearly a year after he was seriously assaulted on another subway platform. David Williams was discovered around 12:30 p.m. Friday at the Parsons Boulevard station near Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, according to Local News New York. He suffered a fractured skull and was placed on a ventilator. His wife, Romina Williams, believes her husband was pushed onto the tracks. She told that the back of his head struck the rail and said she does not believe he…

A multi-agency enforcement operation in Arizona’s Yuma Sector resulted in the arrest of 95 truck drivers earlier this month, as federal authorities stepped up efforts to disrupt drug and human-smuggling activity along the southern border. According to Customs and Border Protection, all 95 drivers held state-issued commercial driver’s licenses. Seventy-six of those licenses were issued by California, while six came from New York. The remaining licenses were issued by several other states. The arrests were part of a broader enforcement operation conducted from Aug. 10 through Aug. 14. Authorities said the operation also uncovered two separate human-smuggling incidents. Four suspected…

A Georgia teenager who investigators say had considered carrying out a shooting at her former middle school before killing her mother instead has been sentenced to life in prison. Lilyana Rose Wagner, now 16, pleaded guilty to felony murder and aggravated assault in connection with the November 2024 death of her mother, 51-year-old Rachel Suzanne Wagner. She was sentenced on Aug. 24 and will become eligible for parole after serving at least 30 years. The case began on Nov. 19, 2024, after Wagner was involved in a single-vehicle crash in Crawford County. Officers responding to the crash learned that she…