There are easier ways for a 35-year-old man to come up with $50 than allegedly stealing it from a bunch of kids selling lemonade. But police in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, say that is the option Chapel D. Lighty chose. Four neighborhood boys had been running a lemonade stand Aug. 19 when they stepped away…
Priscilla Slack is approaching her 85th birthday, which apparently has not stopped various computer systems from getting a little ahead of themselves. The Wesley Chapel, Florida, woman says she has spent more than two years dealing with the fallout from being incorrectly listed as dead after her husband actually died. Her bank account and credit…
For nearly two years, Amazon packages have been showing up at Frank McMillian’s Baltimore home with one fairly important problem: none of them are for Frank McMillian. They’re addressed to somebody named Skylar Baker. McMillian says he doesn’t know a Skylar Baker, has never known a Skylar Baker and, after living in the house for…
A house cleaner in Alabama is accused of helping herself to “handfuls” of an elderly couple’s cash over a period of months, allegedly taking nearly $400,000 before the missing money was noticed. And if investigators are right about where some of that cash went, this was not exactly a low-profile spending spree. The Baldwin County…
Some headlines do not need a dateline. An argument over how hot the green chile enchiladas were, followed by a fatal shooting, was enough for readers to identify Albuquerque before they finished the sentence. Albuquerque police say 22-year-old Ervin Gutierrez and 25-year-old Nathaniel Cavazos were drinking and eating dinner with a relative at a northeast…
A Florida man says he owes his life to two nurses who happened to be nearby when a shark bit his foot in shallow water off the Florida Keys. David “Dave” Daniel, 43, was at a sandbar near Boca Grande Key, about 14 miles west of Key West, on Sunday, Aug. 23. Daniel told NBC…
A 7-year-old boy told his father he was tired shortly after the family began climbing Mount Fuji. His father responded by telling him to wait on a bench for roughly eight hours, police said. The boy did not ultimately spend eight hours alone. Workers at a mountain hut spotted him almost immediately and stepped in…
A woman was killed and a man was injured after police say two joggers attempted to cross railroad tracks in Santa Fe Springs while the crossing gates were already down. The woman was later identified as 34-year-old Graciela Vargas. She was pronounced dead at the scene Thursday morning. The man who was with her suffered…
A Philadelphia woman says a stranger tried to kick her in the face during an early-morning run Wednesday. He did not get very far with the idea. Maggie Lawrence, 24, told 6abc she was running along the 500 block of 16th Street in Center City around 6:30 a.m. when she heard someone yelling through her…