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Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — More than a week after a 39-year-old woman vanished in North Carolina, her family is desperate for answers. Allisha Watts was last seen on July 16 leaving a house in Charlotte, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said. According to Watts’ sister, Stephanie Johnson, Watts was last seen with her boyfriend of […]
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — More than a week after a 39-year-old woman vanished in North Carolina, her family is desperate for answers. Allisha Watts was last seen on July 16 leaving a house in Charlotte, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said. According to Watts’ sister, Stephanie Johnson, Watts was last seen with her boyfriend […]
Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The relatives of Gilgo Beach, New York, murder suspect Rex Heuermann are “going through a devastating time,” their attorney said in a statement Friday. Heuermann’s arrest “is taking an emotional toll,” the attorney said, adding that Heuermann’s wife, who filed for divorce on Wednesday, has […]
Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As heat waves persist and temperatures across the country continue to soar, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting that emergency department visits nationwide have more than doubled in the last month. In the U.S., an estimated 2,891 out of 100,000 overall emergency department visits were […]

ABC (OCALA, Fla.) — The family of Ajike “AJ” Owens, the Black woman who was killed by her neighbor on June 2 in Florida, called on prosecutors to upgrade the charges against Susan Lorincz from manslaughter to second-degree murder during a virtual press conference on Tuesday. Lorincz, who is white, has been charged with first-degree […]
Ben Crump Law (NEW YORK) — The family of a Florida mother of four called for justice after her alleged killer — a neighbor she was feuding with — was arrested, asking the state attorney to deliver an effective prosecution. “Do not fail AJ,” said Pamela Dias, the mother of Ajike Owens, 35, during a […]
Ben Crump Law (OCALA, Fla.) — The family of Ajike Owens, 35, and their attorney Anthony D. Thomas held a news conference on Monday demanding an arrest be made for the shooting death of Owens, a Florida mother of four. The Owens family is also being represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump. Owens was shot […]
San Francisco District Attorney’s Office (SAN FRANCISCO) — The family of a man fatally shot by a security guard in a San Francisco Walgreens last month during an apparent shoplifting altercation has filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit. Banko Brown, 24, died on April 27 following an altercation with the guard, police said. The guard, […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A family of six spent the last year traveling the world together to take in as many sights as possible before retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder, causes total vision loss for three of the four children. The Lemay-Pelletier family — 12-year-old Mia, 10-year-old Leo, 7-year-old Colin and 5-year-old Laurent, […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A family of six spent the last year traveling the world together to take in as many sights as possible before retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder, causes total vision loss for three of the four children. The Lemay-Pelletier family — 12-year-old Mia, 10-year-old Leo, 7-year-old Colin and 5-year-old Laurent, […]