A jury found a grocery clerk guilty of killing a 17-year-old boy who ran out of the store with a beer he didn’t pay for in Memphis, authorities said. Anwar Ghazali was convicted of second-degree murder after a four-day trial, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said Friday. He will be sentenced on September…… MORE
A Missouri city official is apologizing after an employee took two selfies of grinning police officers near where a baby’s body was found this week in Columbia. The incident happened Thursday when Columbia Police Department officers were called to the scene in a wooded area. The infant has not been identified and investigators are asking…… MORE
A family’s home in a luxurious Florida community has become uninhabitable due to a swarm of vultures. The home in the Ibis community in West Palm Beach was purchased by Anthony and Siobhan Casimano. However, he told CNN affiliate WPBF that they can’t live there because of to the vultures that continue to invade. In…… MORE
Bee lovers are abuzz on National Honeybee Day, the time of year when we honor nature’s hardest-working pollinator. People owe a lot to bees — namely, many of the foods we enjoy, like strawberries, avocados and broccoli. The US Department of Agriculture estimates that every 1 in 3 bites of food exists because of animal…… MORE
Carol Anderson was scanning Twitter recently when she saw something that brought back a chilling memory. Someone asked Latina women if they had changed the way they acted in public after a white man allegedly targeting Mexicans was arrested for gunning down 22 people in an El Paso Walmart. One woman said she no longer…… MORE
A 3-year-old girl was found alone and adrift in a boat a day after she set sail with her father in Texas. Hours later, first responders recovered a man’s body Friday evening not far from where the boat was discovered. The toddler and her father went out on the boat Thursday. She was discovered floating…… MORE
Four Arkansas teens were going door to door to raise money for their high school football team when a woman held them at gunpoint, police say. The 10th-grade boys, who are all black and who were not identified because of their ages, were selling discount cards for restaurants and stores in Wynne, Arkansas, on August…… MORE
Police near Chicago say six teenagers were trying to break into a house when the elderly homeowner told them to leave and fired a gun after they refused. The youngest of the group, 14, was shot and killed. Now the other five, including four under 18, have been charged with first-degree murder as adults, the…… MORE
The US Coast Guard said it and its partner agencies recovered 1,300 pounds of marijuana wrapped in plastic from the water near Santa Catalina Island, one of California’s channel islands southwest of Los Angeles, this week. The 43 bales were transferred to Customs and Border Protection, which estimated the value at $1 million. A civilian…… MORE
Police in Royal Oak, Michigan, have apologized to a man who was detained for about 20 minutes after a woman reported him for suspicious activity. According to police, a woman called 911 Tuesday because she was uncomfortable. She reported that a “male subject was circling her vehicle, staring at her from across the street, and…… MORE
