CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — Chesterfield County police are looking for a man who they say attempted to abduct a 7-year-old girl. Police say in a statement that at about 7:10 p.m. Monday, the girl was walking in the Stone Harbor neighborhood when a vehicle stopped on the street next to her. A man exited the … Continue reading
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Missouri executes man for 15-year-old girl’s 1989 killing
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A man who spent nearly 25 years on Missouri’s death row was executed Tuesday for the kidnapping, rape and fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl who was waiting for a school bus. Roderick Nunley became the sixth inmate put to death in Missouri this year. During the lethal injection, the … Continue reading
Man charged after woman found stabbed in neck, torso
Police: Man charged after woman found stabbed in neck, torso VINTON, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a 30-year-old man has been charged in connection with the stabbing of a woman in Vinton. The Bedford County Sheriff’s Office tells media outlets that Willard Hale of Vinton was arrested Saturday. Hale is charged with aggravated malicious wounding … Continue reading
Police: 4 teens arrested after abducting high school student
Police have arrested four teenagers they say abducted a high school student at gunpoint. Multiple news outlets report an 18-year-old male from Wilson Memorial High School in Fisherville was taken by five people late Friday night and released early Saturday morning. Police said the victim’s abductors were wearing black hoods and he was tied up with … Continue reading
Dutch ex-hostage heads home after rescue in Mali
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A Dutch national who was held in captivity by Islamic militants for more than three years has left Mali and is headed back home, officials said Tuesday. Sjaak Rijke, who was abducted from a hotel in northern Mali in November 2011, flew into Mali’s capital Bamako on Tuesday. He stepped out … Continue reading
Boko Haram abducts 30 people in Cameroon, Nigeria
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have abducted about 30 people including eight Cameroonian girls and killed seven hostages in two bus hijackings in Cameroon and Nigeria, Cameroon residents and a Nigerian intelligence officer said Tuesday, February 10. Boko Haram, who kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria last year in an … Continue reading
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