
TEXAS EX-TEACHER WHO JOINED ISIS INDICTED ON TERROR-RELATED CHARGE
A Texas man captured in Syria – where he said he joined the Islamic State – has been brought back to the U.S. on a terrorism-related charge. Warren Christopher Clark, 34, appeared before a judge Frid ...

POLAR VORTEX PLUNGE TO BRING ‘BRUTALLY COLD’ AIR, ‘LIFE-THREATENING WIND CHILLS’ TO MIDWEST
A surge of arctic air is about to bring parts of the Midwest the coldest temperatures in years by the middle of this week, as part of the polar vortex is set to blast the region with dangerously cold ...

KENTUCKY POLICE OFFICER INJURED AFTER THROWN ROCK SMASHES THROUGH WINDSHIELD, CAUSING CRASH
Authorities in Kentucky have launched a statewide search after a deputy was injured when someone allegedly threw a rock that hit his windshield and struck him in the face early Sunday. The Boyle Coun ...

LOUISIANA SUSPECT IN KILLING OF 5 CAPTURED IN VIRGINIA AFTER MANHUNT
A 21-year-old man wanted for killing five people, including his girlfriend and parents, was captured after an intense manhunt that spanned several states, authorities in Louisiana announced Sunday. D ...

SAVANNAH SPURLOCK DISAPPEARANCE: ‘SOMEBODY KNOWS SOMETHING,’ SAYS MISSING WOMAN’S MOM
The mother of Savannah Spurlock is still searching for answers in her daughter’s mysterious disappearance in Kentucky earlier this month. "Somebody knows something and I want that person to think abo ...

SUSPECT IN 1992 COLD CASE MURDER STAYED FRIENDS WITH VICTIM’S FAMILY
The man charged in the brutal cold case murder of his neighbor chillingly kept up a friendly relationship with the young woman’s family as cops botched the investigation for decades, the victim’s kin ...

COVINGTON BISHOP FINALLY APOLOGIZES FOR CONDEMNING STUDENTS IN VIRAL INCIDENT
The bishop overseeing Covington Catholic High School apologized Thursday for his and the Diocese’s rush to judgment of the students in the viral incident at the Lincoln Memorial. The Most Rev. Roger ...

ALABAMA MAN SERVING LIFE SENTENCE FOR SEX TRAFFICKING ESCAPES MAXIMUM-SECURITY PRISON
A man serving life in prison on human-trafficking charges escaped from a maximum-security prison in north Alabama Wednesday, officials said. Corey Aris Davis, 30, was not in his cell at St. Clair Cor ...

POLICE OFFICER’S DEATH RESULTED FROM ‘RUSSIAN ROULETTE’-STYLE GAME; FELLOW OFFICER CHARGED
A male St. Louis police officer has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in this week’s shooting death of a female officer in what was described as a deadly game with a revolver, according to a ...

FREIGHT TRAIN SLAMS INTO SCHOOL BUS, KILLING STUDENT, 13, AND INJURING TWO OTHERS
A Union Pacific train slammed into a school bus on Friday in East Texas, killing a middle-school student and injuring the bus driver and another student, authorities said. The accident happened aroun ...

SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN ‘TARGETED’ GEORGIA SHOOTINGS THAT KILLED 4
Georgia police launched a dragnet Thursday night for a 27-year-old man they say gunned down four people and wounded another man in a pair of “targeted” shootings. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation ...

SOUTH CAROLINA BOY BEFRIENDS OFFICER AT CHICK-FIL-A
A South Carolina police officer made a new friend last week when a young boy thanked him for his service at a local Chick-fil-A. Terence Brister, an officer with the Greenville Police Department who ...