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☆ California teacher accused of hiding missing teen for almost 2 years
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A California teacher is accused of hiding a missing teenager who vanished more than two years ago and reappeared at his family's home in March, authorities said last week. Olivares faces charges of detaining a minor with the intent to conceal from a parent and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the department said. “You can’t just hide someone’s kid and think that’s OK,” Smith told the station. The police department identified Olivares as an employee at the Alice Birney Public Waldorf school, in the Sacramento City Unified School District. In a statement to KCRA, the district said that Olivares has been placed on administrative leave while it investigates the allegations.

☆ Wisconsin family of 6 found dead after apartment fire were shot, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Six members of a Wisconsin family found dead after an apartment fire last week each suffered a single gunshot wound, authorities said Monday. At least six people are confirmed dead in an apartment fire in Hartland, Wis., on Friday. The other victims were Jessica McKisick; two girls, 12 and 14; and 3-year-old twin boys, the police department said. The twins were the sons of Connor and Jessica McKisick, Misko said. It was not immediately clear whether the family died in the fire or from the gunshots.

☆ More questions than answers surround the deaths of four friends found dead in an Oklahoma river
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Mark Chastain, 32, and Billy Chastain, 30, were the “definition of brothers and were always together,” their grandmother, Milissia Smith, said in a verified online fundraiser. Billy Chastain — who went by BJ — was a handyman with four children, two girls and two boys ages 2 to 12, Gordon said. Megan GordonGordon said the last time she spoke to Billy Chastain was the day before he vanished. An affidavit filed for the grand theft charge states that Kennedy told the arresting officer that the truck's owner told him he could borrow the vehicle whenever he wanted. Kennedy told the officer he took the truck last week and drove to Florida for a weekend vacation, the document says.

☆ U.S. and Europe to address Iran's drone supply to Russia at U.N. Security Council
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Abigail-Williams-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Abigail Williams | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Officials from the United States, the United Kingdom and France will raise Iran‘s apparent provision of drones to Russia in a closed door meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, a U.S. official confirmed to NBC News. “Iran’s supply of these specific types of UAVs to Russia is a violation of UN Security Council resolution to 2231 and it is this issue for the U.N. Security Council,” State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters Tuesday. Zelenskyy described the apparent move by Russia to acquire Iranian-made drones as an “admission by the Kremlin that it is militarily and politically bankrupt. The official also said the drones launched by Russia inside Ukraine appeared to come from Iran. Iran has denied the claim that it has delivered drones to Russia for use in the war against Ukraine.

☆ TV host James Corden is briefly banned from NYC restaurant over 'abusive' behavior, owner says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Keith McNally, owner of famed SoHo restaurant Balthazar, said on Instagram that "The Late Late Show" host called him and "apologized profusely." In an earlier post, McNally described Corden as a "tiny Cretin of a man" and said that he "86’d Corden. In an Oct. 9 report cited by McNally, Corden was described as becoming upset over his wife's omelet. "That’s when James Corden began yelling like crazy to the server," the report said, accusing him of telling the server: “You can’t do your job! "After that, everything was fine," the report said, noting that the manager gave Corden promo Champagne glasses to "smooth things out."

☆ ‘Multiple’ remains found in Oklahoma river after four friends vanish, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

What appear to be "multiple” human remains were found partially submerged in a river in the small Oklahoma city of Okmulgee Friday, nearly a week after the disappearance of four adult friends, authorities said Friday. It wasn’t clear if the remains were of the four men, Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice told reporters. Prentice said he notified the families of the missing men, who were last seen Sunday night leaving a home by bicycle, even though the remains haven’t been identified. The department on Tuesday named the missing men as Mark Chastain, 32; Billy Chastain, 30; Mike Sparks, 32; and Alex Stevens, 29. That data showed them traveling east, then south, Prentice said, adding that authorities hadn't been searching in the area where the remains were discovered.

Shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, the Raleigh Police Department said that officers were responding to the scene of an "active shooting" in an area northeast of downtown. An off-duty officer was killed as police are responding to an active shooting situation in an east Raleigh, N.C., neighborhood on Thursday afternoon. A witness told the station that he saw an apparent gunman who was armed with a long-barrel shotgun and dressed in camouflage. "I saw him basically pass by my house in the backyard," the witness, identified only as Robert, told the station. Another witness who saw the apparent gunman told the station that he was wearing black boots and appeared to be a teenager.

☆ Popular ex-Peloton instructor alleges executive mocked him for being Irish and seeking Covid exemption
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A popular former Peloton instructor sued the company for $1.8 million Wednesday, alleging an executive disparaged his Irish ethnicity and ridiculed him for seeking a Covid-19 vaccine exemption. The leave was at odds with the culture of “corporate America,” the suit alleges Cotter said. McKenna was invited to audition for the company after building a following as a personal fitness instructor, the suit says. He experienced an "80 percent growth in followers and highest percentage growth of any Peloton instructor," the suit claims. After McKenna was vaccinated, the suit alleges Cotter "forced" him to observe a 14-day quarantine while he repeatedly tested negative.

Two fishermen captured in a viral video appearing to scam an Ohio fishing tournament were on the hook for multiple crimes, including cheating, authorities said in announcing their indictments Wednesday. Two fishermen were found to have weighed down their fish with lead weights in order to win a tournament in Cleveland. @walleyemafia1 via TikTokThe criminal tools charge stemmed from the pair allegedly using Cominsky’s boat during the competition, the release said. A scandal over the alleged crimes erupted Sept. 30, when a video showed a crowd gathering around the competition's proclaimed winners, Runyan and Cominsky. Ten weights were found inside the fish, with eight of them weighing 12 ounces and two weighing 8 ounces.

☆ Ohio 'incel' who plotted to 'slaughter' women pleads guilty to attempted hate crime
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

An Ohio man who federal prosecutors accused of planning to "slaughter" women and kill thousands of people in a mass shooting pleaded guilty to an attempted hate crime, authorities said Tuesday. InstagramNeither the prosecutor's office nor Genco's lawyer immediately responded to requests for comment Tuesday night. On the same day, Genco searched online for a university and sororities in Ohio, the indictment says. Genco left Ohio that month for Georgia, where he attended basic training until December, according to the indictment. He was arrested in July 2021, the prosecutor's office said.

☆ Prosecutors say Michael Avenatti should get 17 years in prison for fraud scheme
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Andrew Blankstein | Tim Stelloh | Andrew Blankstein Is An Investigative Reporter For Nbc News. He Covers The Western U.S. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

LOS ANGELES — Convicted criminal and disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti should serve 17½ years in prison after he pleaded guilty to bank fraud and tax offenses in California this year, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The recommendation was included in a 303-page sentencing memo filed by the U.S. attorney's office for Central California. In the California case, Avenatti admitted pocketing millions of dollars that belonged to clients and lying to them about it, prosecutors said when he pleaded guilty in June. A sentencing memo filed by a lawyer for Avenatti asked for a maximum prison term of three years followed by three years of supervised release. In a separate case, Avenatti was convicted in February 2020 of extortion and other crimes after he threatened to ruin Nike’s reputation unless it agreed to pay him and his client millions of dollars.

☆ South Carolina authorities say man confessed to killing 5 after he'd been on meth for days
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A man who authorities said confessed to killing five people and told them he'd been high on methamphetamines for days has been arrested in the fatal shootings in South Carolina. The scene of the shootings in Inman, S.C. Google MapsDrayton lived at the home for two weeks, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Thomas Ellis Anderson, 37; Adam Daniel Morley, 32; Mark Allen Hewitt, 59; and Roman Christean Megael Rocha, 19, were killed, the sheriff’s office said. Authorities responded to the house at 7:45 p.m. Sunday and found four people fatally wounded, the sheriff's office said. Someone that hadn’t slept in four days — they’re probably not thinking.”It wasn't clear when Drayton would be extradited to South Carolina.

☆ Dog collar-wearing woman says she escaped captivity at Missouri home
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The woman reported the allegations to authorities at 7:47 a.m. Friday, the sheriff’s office said. Minutes before, Johnson saw the woman hunched over and appearing to crawl up her front steps, asking for help, the station reported. The woman told the grandmother that she'd been held in the basement since last month and that she escaped after her captor left the house Friday morning, KSHB reported. The sheriff's office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Haslett was taken into custody after authorities searched his home and the Kansas City police crime scene investigators processed the scene, the sheriff's office said.

☆ Texas girl, 12, accused of making murder pact and shooting father, died by suicide, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

A 12-year-old Texas girl accused of shooting her father in a murder pact she made with a friend died by suicide, authorities said Wednesday. He is expected to recover, the sheriff’s office said. The second girl did not act and was arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, the sheriff’s office said. Authorities found the Weatherford girl around 11:30 p.m. lying in the street with an apparent gunshot wound. Investigators believe the girl shot her father and fled before she turned the gun on herself, the sheriff's office has said.

☆ A California woman accused of running over a man she thought was trying to hit a cat is charged with murder
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

A California driver was charged with fatally mowing down a man whom she accused of trying to run over a cat, authorities said Wednesday. Hannah Star Esser, 20, was charged with murder and is being held on $1 million bail in the Sept. 25 encounter in Cypress, a Southern California suburb southeast of Los Angeles, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. Prosecutors say Esser confronted Luis Anthony Victor, 43, because she believed he was trying to hit a cat with his car. In a statement, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer described the killing as a "random act of violence targeting a stranger." She is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 13 and could face 25 years to life in prison.

☆ Six people are shot at a California school, official says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Six people were injured Wednesday in a shooting at an Oakland, California, school, authorities said. The shooting occurred shortly before 1 p.m. at a campus with four schools, including a middle school and a high school, in the city's Eastmont Hills neighborhood, Allison told reporters. Schaaf said earlier that the gunfire erupted at Sojourner Truth, a K-12 independent study school also at the campus. Victims were found inside the school, Allison said. Authorities said a 12-year-old shot a 13-year-old at Madison Park Academy on Aug. 29, wounding the boy.

☆ Hurricane Ian strengthens to Category 4 storm as it barrels toward Florida
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Hurricane Ian strengthened to a powerful Category 4 storm as it bore down on Florida’s Gulf Coast Wednesday after knocking out power to all of Cuba. Traffic moves slowly Tuesday on Interstate 4 East in Four Corners, Fla., as residents evacuate the Gulf Coast of Florida in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Ian. Win McNamee / Getty ImagesMore than 2 million people along Florida’s Gulf Coast were under evacuation orders, DeSantis said. The latest on Hurricane Ian The Category 4 storm was 75 miles from Naples, on Florida's Gulf Coast, early Wednesday. Ian was producing storm surge flooding early Wednesday across the lower Florida Keys.

☆ Teen dead after gunmen 'ambushed' 5 high school football players in Philadelphia, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Five high school football players were shot Tuesday in a deadly “ambush” after a scrimmage in Philadelphia, authorities said. Two gunmen are thought to have opened fire after a game at Roxborough High School, killing the 14-year-old boy, Philadelphia Police First Deputy Commissioner John Stanford told reporters. Officials investigate a shooting that killed a teenage boy and injured four other people near Roxborough High School in Philadelphia on Tuesday. The gunmen appeared to have fired "a lot" of bullets at the players, Stanford said. There have been 400 homicides, a 1% drop from the same time last year, the city's most violent on record, according to NBC Philadelphia.

☆ Ian to become a major hurricane overnight, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Hurricane Ian was forecast to become a major hurricane overnight as it churned toward Cuba with powerful winds and a storm surge that was expected to swamp the island’s western coast, U.S. weather officials said late Monday. Ron DeSantis declared a statewide emergency, saying Ian could hit the state as a punishing Category 4 hurricane, with wind speeds topping 130 mph. "We already have so little.”Earlier Monday, Ian passed by the nearby Cayman Islands with no major damage reported. The latest on Hurricane Ian By Monday night, Ian, moving northwest at 13 mph, was about 105 miles east-southeast of the western tip of Cuba, with top sustained winds increasing to 105 mph. Forecasters expect Ian to hit Florida’s west coast as a major hurricane as early as Tuesday.

☆ Mom whose body was found in Georgia woods seemed "not afraid" in security video,
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Among the items found with Collier’s body were a red tote bag and a partly burned blue tarp. Investigators obtained the security video after they got a tip that Collier's daughter was seen at the shop that Saturday, the sheriff's office said. A review of the video showed that Collier herself was there — not her daughter, the sheriff's office said. The state crime lab was still conducting an autopsy, the sheriff's office said last week. Collier's body was discovered after a late model van that she'd been driving was found unlocked and unoccupied at a road pullout, authorities said.

☆ Ex-Texas police officer acquitted of murder in fatal shooting of man at gas station
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A white former police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man at a Texas gas station two years ago was acquitted of murder Thursday, the officer’s lawyer said. One of Price’s sisters, Sabrina Price, wept after the verdict was announced Thursday afternoon, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported. via Facebook“There was not one person that looked like me,” said Sabrina Price, who is Black, referring to the jury, according to the station. At the time of the shooting, Lucas was one of six white police officers in the small city northeast of Dallas, state records show. Lucas had been dispatched to the gas station over a possible fight in progress, Lt. Lonny Haschel of the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement.

☆ School officials unknowingly gave accused Michigan shooter his backpack with gun and magazines, lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Marin Scott | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Details of the exchange came from depositions provided by school officials after several families sued the Oxford Community School District in federal court last year. According to Hopkins' testimony, Johnson said, the counselor commented on the backpack's weight after the teacher gave it to him. After returning to the meeting, Hopkins gave the bag to Ejak, who passed it to the teen. Johnson said some school officials missed other red flags, including an incident Nov. 29 where the suspect's teacher saw him looking at images of bullets on his phone. After the teacher began reviewing his classwork and noticed his interests "leaned toward the violent side," Johnson said, she reported what she found to other school officials, including Hopkins.

☆ Putin's plans for escalation spark protests across Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

More than 1,300 people were detained across Russia as demonstrators protested President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial mobilization of military reservists, an independent monitoring group said Wednesday. More than 1,000 protesters were taken into custody in the country’s two most populous cities — Moscow and St. Petersburg — said the group, OVD-Info. The Moscow prosecutor's office warned that participating in one could lead to a 15-year prison sentence, The Associated Press reported. In another video outside the church, authorities could be seen leading people away from the group one by one. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said 300,000 reservists with relevant combat and service experience would be called up initially.

☆ No evidence slain mom who texted ‘They won’t let me go’ was kidnapped, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Investigators have also found no evidence linking the death of Deborrah Collier, 59, to suicide, the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Neither the sheriff’s office nor Collier’s daughter immediately responded to requests for comment. Deputies found the van a short time later on the side of a state road in Clarkesville, the report says. The sheriff's office said an autopsy was being conducted by a state crime lab. The news release said that the investigation continues and that authorities executed search warrants at locations directly tied to Collier.

☆ A man was fatally shot in Houston. Hours later, a boy thought to be his son was found dead in an SUV.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A gunman is wanted in the deaths of a man who was fatally shot Tuesday and a toddler, thought to be the victim's son, who was found dead in the back seat of an SUV, Houston authorities said. The unidentified gunman hasn’t been apprehended, Houston Executive Assistant Police Chief Larry Satterwhite told reporters. Police are searching for a gunman accused of fatally shooting a man who was found dead southwest of downtown Houston on Tuesday afternoon. Five hours later, as authorities were investigating the shooting, a woman called police and reported that her husband and her 2-year-old son were missing, Satterwhite said. Authorities quickly determined that the missing husband and the shooting victim were the same person, Satterwhite said.

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