A Texas woman has been arrested on suspicion of capital murder after police claimed she killed her baby and stuffed into a duffel bag that was found at a trash recycling plant.
Nidia Alvarado, 25, was taken into custody on Tuesday night at her home.
A police spokesman said that Alvarado gave birth to the baby boy and then strangled it to death before throwing him away. The baby was discovered on an intake belt at a Waste Management facility in San Antonio.
The woman reportedly gave a false name at the hospital where she gave birth. Poilce investigators did not tell the media how they were able to track down Alvarado but credited “tips from the public” for helping the investigation.
Police said that other children at Alvarado’s home were taken into custody by child protective services.
A 16-year-old Chicago youth has lost his life over a computer gaming system.
Raymond Galloway was shot by his 13-year-old cousin as he slept around 6 a.m. Sunday. He was rushed to a Chicago area hospital where he died about 90 minutes later.
According to a police report, the two teens had been fighting earlier in the evening over an Xbox.
The boy confessed to police that the shooting was in the presence of his mother. He was taken into custody and charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder. The judge decided not to allow bail in the case.
Police say that they do not know where the boy obtained the 9mm semi-automatic handgun used for the shooting. No adults have been charged in the case.
A sniper with the Lebanese army launched an unprovoked attack on an Israeli soldier. The soldier was driving along the border late Sunday night when he was shot by the sniper.
Two Lebanese soldiers were then killed early Monday morning by Israeli troops.
The shootings are causing concern that the area will see hostilities resume after a mostly peaceful season after a one-month war in 2006. Israeli officials said they do not want to see an escalation of the violence and they would take no actions to add to that atmosphere.
Lebanon’s National News Agency confirmed the killing of the Israeli soldier was by a member of their army but did not mention why the sniper chose to assassinate the Israeli.
United Nations officials have called on both sides to provide information for an investigation into the incident without delay.
A pair of Pennsylvania newlyweds decided that the way to celebrate their three-week wedding anniversary was to commit murder.
Officials say the case graphically brings home the dangers of meeting a stranger from the internet.
Sunbury police said that Elytte Barbour and his wife Miranda had been using the website Craigslist to lure in men through a “business” where Miranda would rent herself out as a “companion” for as much as $850 a night. The couple said they were searching for someone that would fit their desire to kill someone.
They found that person in 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara.
Barbour reportedly told police that after receiving contact from LaFerrara they arranged to meet him at a mall. When the victim sat in the passenger seat of Miranda’s Honda CRV, her husband appeared from the back seat and held down LaFerrara while his wife stabbed him to death.
The body was dumped in an alley in Sunbury, PA.
The two are being held in separate county prisons facing charges of criminal homicide. They are being held without bail.
Police officials said that if you are going to do business through an internet site that it’s best to meet someone in a visible public place surrounded by others.
Nigerian Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram has taken to a new tactic to try and boost the morale of their soldiers. They are kidnapping Christian women, forcing them to convert to Islam through violence and then are forcing them to marry terrorist fighters.
A 19-year-old woman identified only as Hajja escaped from the group after four months of captivity. The Christian woman said she was forced multiple times to kneel and beaten while her captors yelled at her to worship Allah. She said she eventually pretended to go along with them because a fighter told her she was about to be beheaded.
She told reporters that she was forced to be a slave for a group of fourteen terrorists and was used as bait to lure in civilians working with the military so that the terrorists could slit their throats. She reported being forced to watch multiple murders at the hands of her captors.
Hajja now lives in the nation’s capital city of Abuja and is free to worship Christ. She says that she has trouble sleeping at night because of nightmares related to her captivity.
The man believed to have carried out a gun attack at Los Angeles International Airport could be facing the death penalty if convicted of the charges against him.
Paul Ciancia, 23, has been charged with murder of a federal agent, violence at an international airport and multiple other charges. He remains hospitalized after being shot in the mouth and legs by police.
LAX has reopened fully after the investigation on-site was completed.
Police reported that the gunman did not initially kill 39-year-old TSA agent Gerardo Hernandez, the first TSA agent killed in the line of duty. Ciancia had wounded Hernandez before shooting at other agents then returned to kill the fallen agent.
The FBI says Ciancia carried a handwritten note stating he made the conscious decision to kill TSA employees to “instill fear into their traitorous minds.”
He pushed through screening gates and was 100 yards into the secure area before law enforcement reached him and he opened fire near a food court.
The father and stepmother of a Georgia girl have been charged with murder after the girl’s burned corpse was discovered in a trash can.
Eman Moss called police to say that he was suicidal and that his daughter had drank some kind of chemical that killed her.
When police arrived, Eman repeated his story about his daughter drinking a chemical and dying. He then lead them to a park area near the metro Atlanta apartment complex where he lived and showed them the burnt corpse of his daughter in a trash can.
Eman Moss and the girl’s stepmother, Tiffany Moss, are charged with felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree and concealing a body.
A 14-year-old high school freshman killed his teacher on Tuesday, disposed of the body and then went to see a movie according to police authorities.
Philip Chism of Danvers, Massachusetts is charged with the murder of 24-year-old Danvers High School math teacher Colleen Ritzer. Police have charged him as an adult in the case, however he will be evaluated to determine his mental state.
Police say that Chism admitted following Ritzer into a bathroom at their school, killing her with a box cutter, taking the body into the woods behind the school and then going to see the latest Woody Allen move at a nearby theater.
Authorities released no motive for the murder.
Students say that Chism, who was in Ritzer’s class, was asked by the teacher to see her at the end of the school day Tuesday. Students held a vigil outside the high school on Wednesday night and sold ribbons in her memory with all proceeds going to Ritzer’s family.
Major social media network Facebook is again allowing users to post videos of people being murdered.
Facebook reversed an earlier decision banning posting of videos that showed people being beheaded or killed but now allow the videos with a warning that the video contains graphic content. The initial ban had been made after outcry from worldwide government officials.
The majority of the videos are of the beheadings of members of Mexican drug cartels. The videos usually show the entire murder from start to finish. The site is also allowing the posting of executions taking place in the middle east and Asia along with terrorist killings.
Those taking the social media giant to task say that because the site allows users as young as 13 years old the videos could cause significant mental stress. The critics point out that Facebook has rules prohibiting videos that show a single woman’s exposed breast – thus blocking some videos of mothers breastfeeding their children – but have nothing to stop what are essentially snuff films.
Facebook says they are allowing the videos to be posted so that users can discuss them and share their outrage about the killings. The site says they will remove videos if the people who post it glorify the violence in the videos in any way.
British Prime Minister David Cameron called out Facebook saying their actions were irresponsible and that they “must explain their actions to worried parents.”
Facebook has not commented about the decision to add warnings to the videos.
Masked gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire outside a church in a Cairo suburb on Sunday killing at least three people including an 8 year old child.
The terrorists reportedly shot randomly at the guests exiting the church and did not appear to be attempting to discern between Christians and other wedding guests.
A Coptic priest at the wedding told Reuters that he was inside the church when the gunfire began but rushed outside to find a dead man, a dead woman and many wounded wedding guests laying around the front of the church building.
Coptic Christians make up around ten percent of Egypt’s population and had been living in peace with the majority Muslims in the country for years. However, the Muslim Brotherhood told supporters that the Christians were behind the removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on July 3rd and called for retaliation.
Analysts in the region say the violence against Christians in Egypt since the removal of Morsi and the government disbanding of Muslim Brotherhood protest camps on August 14th is unprecedented.