Every summer, there’s a moment when the fantasy baseball season quietly splits in two. It usually arrives in the days right after the trade deadline, when the dust settles and managers open their apps to find that the pitcher who…
The trail looked ordinary that morning. Dry rock, scrub brush, a wide Arizona sky already turning white with heat. Nothing about it suggested that within hours, emergency crews would be climbing toward a man whose work has been part of…
It was supposed to be the happiest night of their lives. Samantha and Aric Hutchinson had just said “I do.” The reception was winding down. Friends and family were still celebrating. Then, in a matter of seconds on a South…
A Spanish family searching for a missing 42-year-old woman uncovered something investigators had apparently overlooked: the man who had been traveling with her, and who was actively inserting himself into the search, was a convicted serial killer who had served…
A late-night confrontation inside an Austin, Texas, convenience store ended with a 42-year-old customer shot to death in his own car — and, more than two years later, with the gas station employee who fired the shots convicted of murder…
SHELTON, Wash. — What began as a mother’s search for her 15-year-old daughter on a spring break afternoon ended with the arrest of the girl’s high school counselor and, months later, a prison sentence, a revoked teaching certificate and a…
A longtime Cincinnati-area urologist who was celebrated by his own practice for his surgical work and public presentations is now facing felony charges, accused of sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled patient inside his medical office. Dr. Michael Russo, 63, was…
A court hearing that had been set aside for a possible plea agreement instead became a lengthy discussion of newly raised allegations, potential witness conflicts and a trial calendar that may no longer hold, according to a recording of the…
A year after a young New York fashion designer died aboard a yacht at an exclusive Long Island club, her family has taken a formal step toward suing the boat’s owner — and the court paperwork raises a possibility that…
At a glance Location: Horn Island, a barrier island roughly 10 miles off the Mississippi Gulf Coast Case period: July 4 disappearance through an ongoing state investigation, with no grand jury date yet set Victim: An 18-year-old man who went…