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NORTH VERNON, Ind. – Police arrested a 17-year old boy in in connection to the slayings of a husband and wife in southern Jennings County.
Ryan Renfroe of Columbus is in police custody and is facing double murder charges as an adult.
The bodies of Greg and Marguerite Gough were found inside their home in Lovett Tuesday night.
Authorities found a 1987 Chevrolet Camaro belonging to the Gough’s abandoned and wrecked in a ditch in southern Jennings County. When police were towing the car, a witness stopped and told police that they …
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Dallas police have issued a warrant for a 19-year-old suspect for a fatal shooting which happened on Monday.
According to police, Alberto Deleon is wanted in the death of Ray Villasenor, 18. Mr. Villasenor was shot on the evening of Oct. 13 during an argument following a car accident in near South Beacon Street, police said. A second person was also wounded in the shooting, police said.
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Police arrested a 17-year old Sunday afternoon in the stabbing death of his 19-year old girlfriend in the Herndon area.
Siobhan L. Russell was found stabbed to death in the downstairs room at her boyfriend’s home.
Reports say the two were arguing over their relationship when the teen stabbed Russell in her upper body.
The boyfriend’s father was at the house when the incident happened and called the police.
He is being charged as a juvenile and his name was not released.
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MORROW, Ga. – The FBI is investigating the beating of an African-American woman inside a restaurant as a possible hate crime.
Police arrested 47-year old Troy Dale West for kicking and punching Army reservist Tawshawnea Hill at the Cracker Barrel in Morrow, Georgia.
Reports say 35-year old Hill was entering the restaurant with her 7-year old daughter when West swung the door really hard while walking out of the establishment. Hill told the man to be careful not to hit her daughter with the door.
“The man slung open the door pretty hard …
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OJAI, CA. – Police arrested a 14-year old boy in connection to a fatal stabbing of a 16-year old boy outside a house party.
According to police, Seth Scarminach got into an argument with the 14-year old suspect at the weekend party they attended.
Scarminach of Ojai was stabbed in the driveway of a house in the 2400 block of Maricopa Highway. He died of stab wounds to his neck and chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene after rescue responders failed to revive him.
Reports reveal the suspect’s name as Alex …
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An Iraq war veteran has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman while home on leave from the military. Thursday, a Lancaster County jury found 24-year-old Jacob Ford guilty of the Dec. 27 assault at a Lincoln, Nebraska party. He faces up to 50 years in prison.
Ford said he thought the sex with the 23-year-old woman was consensual. However, prosecutors said the woman woke up to find Ford assaulting her, and that Ford called her later to apologize.
Ford’s sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 4.
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NORMAN – A woman was arrested and faces criminal charges after she allegedly carried a handgun into a courthouse in Cleveland County.
47-year old Phibbie Robinson was arrested for disorderly conduct after she became angry and started shouting inside the Cleveland County Courthouse Thursday morning.
Robinson went to the courthouse with her husband, who was bound on a wheelchair, and demanded to speak to district attorney Greg Mashburn.
Reports say that Robinson got confrontational when an investigator tried to speak with her regarding her problem.
Robinson was then warned to calm down or she …
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After serving 28 years behind bars for a rape and murder he’d always insisted he did not do, 58 year old Donald Eugene Gates walked out of a federal prison in Arizona on Tuesday with $75 and a bus ticket to Ohio. It took almost three decades, but DNA testing proved he was innocent of the crime.
In 1981, Gates was convicted of the rape and murder of 21 year old Georgetown University student, Catherine Schilling, which occurred in Washington’s Rock Creek Park. He was sentenced to 20 years …
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After serving 28 years behind bars for a rape and murder he’d always insisted he did not do, 58 year old Donald Eugene Gates walked out of a federal prison in Arizona on Tuesday with $75 and a bus ticket to Ohio. It took almost three decades, but DNA testing proved he was innocent of the crime.
In 1981, Gates was convicted of the rape and murder of 21 year old Georgetown University student, Catherine Schilling, which occurred in Washington’s Rock Creek Park. He was sentenced to 20 years …

