Mar. 7—A rape suspect who escaped from the Morgan County Jail on Sunday by kicking out a window made it to Franklin County, Tennessee, before being captured early Monday morning, according to the Morgan County sheriff. Family members assisted Hartselle resident Jeremy Taylor, 49, in getting to Tennessee following his escape, Sheriff Ron Puckett said….
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica went from having one of the world’s highest deforestation rates in the 1980s to a nation centered on ecotourism, luring world travelers with the possibility of moving between marine reserves and cloud forest in a single day. But the Central American country known for lush jungle and…
Randy Murdaugh stacks wood at his hunting property outside of Hampton, SC, on March 5, 2023. (Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs/The New York Times) HAMPTON, SC — On the surface, the lives of Alex Murdaugh and his older brother Randy appeared to follow the same track: They were born two years apart, both went to the University of…
Kevin Dahlgren chased the suspected thief for about a mile after witnessing a smash and grab from an SUV in broad daylight, his camera rolling. But when he called 911, Dahlgren said the operator told him the police would not pursue the suspect because Dahlgren was not the victim. “‘Of course I’m not the victim,…
Elon Musk took to Twitter early Tuesday morning to criticize several lawmakers that sat on the House Committee Investigating the Capitol Riots on January 6th, accusing them of “misleading the public.” Responding to someone else’s tweet that accused former Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. and Adam Kizinger, R-Ill., along with Congressman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., of being…
Jackie Montgomery speaks with her attorney, James Mayer III, on Monday in Crawford County Common Pleas Court. Potential jurors in the trial of Jacqueline Dawn “Jackie” Montgomery were told Monday about the outcome of her husband’s trial in the same case. Montgomery, 44, Crestline, faces three murder charges in connection with the 2021 beating death…
On a Wednesday afternoon in the summer of 2021, gunfire erupted on Rotary Street in Montgomery. When the smoke cleared and police arrived, they found two teens dead and two others wounded. A month later, a “diss track” was posted to YouTube taunting one of the targets of the shooting to come back and get…
For the second year in a row, Gov. JB Pritzker is proposing the state spend tens of millions of dollars on a witness protection program that was unfunded for the first nine years of its existence. Eight months since the long-neglected initiative secured its initial funding, however, no witnesses have been relocated, and only about…
At least 239 youths booked into Kentucky’s juvenile detention centers in 2022 weren’t the “significantly more violent” predators about whom Gov. Andy Beshear and legislators warn as they call for guards to be armed with tasers and pepper spray, according to a state database obtained by the Herald-Leader. Instead, they were so-called “status offenders,” charged…
An involuntary manslaughter charge against Leeyona Ward, 22, of North Linden, (left) in a fatal shooting was dismissed Monday morning by the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office. By Monday afternoon, however, the prosecutor’s office had presented a case to a Franklin County grand jury and secured an indictment for murder. Her attorney, Joseph R. Landusky II,…
