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UNION SPRINGS, Ala. (AP) — A missing Alabama woman found alive after surviving for weeks in the woods is lucky to have survived and is back home with her family recovering, police said Wednesday. Lisa Theris, 25, of Louisville was covered in scrapes and bug bites and dropped as much as 50 pounds to her current of 110 pounds during the ordeal, said Sgt. Chad Faulkner of the Bullock County Sheriff 's Office. "She was in really, really bad shape," Faulkner said. Sheriff Raymond Rodgers tells WSFA -TV that Theris was lost in the woods of southeast Alabama for almost one month. She was found Saturday walking along a highway outside of Union Springs, located about 45 miles (70 km) from Montgomery. Rodgers said Theris survived by drinking water from a brook and eating berries and mushrooms. Faulkner tells WTVY -TV that the two men Theris was last seen with are being questioned, but haven't been legally implicated in the case. Theris was facing a misdemeanor disorderly con...

| Share | Share | Share | Share Aug. 13--RIVIERA BEACH, FL-- Quick action by neighbors and firefighters -- and a little luck -- saved three infants trapped inside a burning apartment on Friday that police say was set on fire by their father after a domestic dispute with the children's 19-year-old mother. Using hammers, chairs and whatever they could grab to smash through hurricane windows, neighbors entered a burning second-floor unit at the Stonybrook Apartments. They handed a 3-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy out the window. "They kept pounding and pounding. They were using hammers and chairs, anything they could get their hands on. They wouldn't stop until they got those kids out," said Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters . A video taken at the scene shows neighbors struggling to pound through the doors and flames coming through the roof. "There's a newborn baby in there! Somebody locked the doors! Somebody get that baby out of there," a woma...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. -  Quick action by neighbors and firefighters -- and a little luck -- saved three infants trapped inside a burning apartment on Friday that police say was set on fire by their father after a domestic dispute with the children’s 19-year-old mother. Using hammers, chairs and whatever they could grab to smash through hurricane windows, neighbors entered a burning second-floor unit at the Stonybrook Apartments . They handed a 3-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy out the window. >> Read more trending news “They kept pounding and pounding. They were using hammers and chairs, anything they could get their hands on. They wouldn’t stop until they got those kids out,” said  Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters . A 1-month-old girl was still inside, residents told firefighters when they arrived about 6 p.m. Firefighters were unable to see through the heavy smoke. A thermo- imaging device led them to the child. She was lying on a bed. A door had somehow landed on top of...

RIVIERA BEACH Quick action by neighbors and firefighters — and a little luck — saved three infants trapped inside a burning apartment on Friday that police say was set on fire by their father after a domestic dispute with the children’s 19-year-old mother. Using hammers, chairs and whatever they could grab to smash through hurricane windows, neighbors entered a burning second-floor unit at the Stonybrook Apartments. They handed a 3-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy out the window. “They kept pounding and pounding. They were using hammers and chairs, anything they could get their hands on. They wouldn’t stop until they got those kids out,” said Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters . A video taken at the scene shows neighbors struggling to pound through the doors and flames coming through the roof. “There’s a new-born baby in there! Somebody locked the doors! Somebody get that baby out of there,” a woman screams in the video. A one-month-old girl was still inside, residents told firefi...

By  Julius Whigham II and Bill DiPaolo The Palm Beach Post RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Quick action by neighbors and firefighters — and a little luck — saved three infants trapped inside a burning apartment on Friday that police say was set on fire by their father after a domestic dispute with the children’s 19-year-old mother. Using hammers, chairs and whatever they could grab to smash through hurricane windows, neighbors entered a burning second-floor unit at the Stonybrook Apartments. They handed a 3-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy out the window. children inside . (Photo/ Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office)" />Velmando J. Williams, 22, set the apartment on fire with his three children inside . (Photo/ Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office) “They kept pounding and pounding. They were using hammers and chairs, anything they could get their hands on. They wouldn’t stop until they got those kids out,” said Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters . A video taken at the scene ...

The only remains of the birth of "Baby Willow" were washed away from an apartment complex parking lot Tuesday morning as distraught neighbors looked on. A day earlier Orlando police responded around 3 p.m. to Willow Bend Apartments after someone reported seeing a possible placenta in the parking lot. Homicide and crime- scene investigators determined "that a full term baby had been born and discarded," police said. Officers found the mother, 30-year-old Susan Richardson, on Monday but no baby. She only admitted to giving birth to the girl, according to police. Richardson was taken to the Orange County Jail on an aggravated child neglect charge Tuesday afternoon , police say. Police conducted an extensive search of the complex in the 4700 block of Silver Star Road near Evans High School — including inside Dumpsters and trash cans — with cadaver dogs and 14 trained searchers from the nonprofit support group Search and Rescue of Central Florida but came up emp...

Buy Photo Police vehicles on the scene at 2424 Tharpe St. (Photo: Michael Shwarz/Democrat) Buy Photo CLOSE TPD gives update on Wednesday's officer involved shooting Karl Etters Update 5:34 p.m. A burglary suspect died of his injuries Thursday after being shot by a Tallahassee Police Officer . Jeremy Lett, 28, was shot by TPD officer David Stith , who was responding to reports of a burglary at the Shadow Ridge Apartments on West Tharpe Street around 8 p.m. Wednesday. After Stith spotted and confronted a man matching the burglary suspect's description, the two men were involved in a physical altercation during which Stith shot Lett , according to TPD spokesman David Northway . The burglary was reported at the complex, but Northway did not know which apartment. Stith, who was not injured, has been placed on administrative leave with pay following the incident, which is protocol when an officer fires his weapon in the line of duty. Leon County court records show Lett was a res...

A North Little Rock man fatally shot at a Little Rock apartment complex last month identified his killer in a "dying declaration" to detectives, according to a court affidavit released Thursday . Steven McPherson, 43, reportedly identified Jasper Lamar Singleton in a police photo lineup before he died from his injuries at UAMS Medical Center on July 27. McPherson was shot multiple times in his chest at Big Country Chateau Apartments that night. Authorities searched for Singleton, 19, for weeks before U.S. marshals found and arrested him Wednesday at Rodeway Inn & Suites at 2401 W. 65th St., according to an arrest report. Singleton, who is nicknamed "Fugi," was charged with first-degree murder. He pleaded innocent in the case Thursday morning in Little Rock District Court . [INTERACTIVE: Map details all Little Rock, North Little Rock killings in 2017] Judge Hugh Finkelstein set bail at $500,000. Two people besides McPherson said Singleton was at the apar...

Woman Arrested, Charged With Being Accessory To Tulsa Man's Murder TULSA, Oklahoma - A Tulsa woman was arrested Thursday in connection to the shooting death of a man in June. Davina Baker, 24, was arrested on a charge of being an accessory to a murder after the fact, Tulsa Jail records show . 6/29/2017 Related Story: Tulsa Police: One Killed In Shooting At Apartment Complex The shooting occurred at the Addison Apartments near South 101st East Avenue and East Admiral Place . Baker was charged with the crime today, according to Tulsa County District Court records . Dayanaira Pacheco, Eddie Lopez and Jose Arzuaga-Ortiz also face charges in relation to the homicide. Baker is due in court Aug. 24.

A federal judge Thursday cautioned lawyers for the Pulse nightclub shooter ’s widow for missing a deadline to submit a final report for an expert witness without asking for more time, but decided not to reprimand them. Noor Salman was in the federal courthouse near downtown Orlando during the morning hearing and did not make any public statements. She is being held in a local jail until her trial, which is scheduled for March. U.S. District Judge Paul Byron had set an Aug. 1 deadline for prosecutors and defense attorneys to submit finalized expert witness reports from mental-health experts, court records show . But the expert Salman ’s attorneys hired needed more information from the prosecutors’ expert in order to complete his own report, and that information did not come until after the deadline because it had to be sent through the mail and not electronically. “But for snail mail, I think we wouldn’t be here,” said Orlando attorney Mark Horwitz , who represents Salman ’s atto...

The suspect was later arrested in the U-District By Lynsi Burton , SeattlePI Updated 4:42 pm, Monday, July 24, 2017 for investigation of a Thursday sexual assault of an 81-year-old woman in SeaTac. Photo: KOMO News" /> Photo: KOMO News A 41-year-old man is now jailed on $750,000 bail after being arrested for investigation of a Thursday sexual assault of an 81-year-old woman in SeaTac. A 41-year-old man is now jailed on $750,000 bail after being arrested for investigation of a Thursday sexual assault of an 81-year-old woman in SeaTac. The woman was attacked in her apartment at the Falcon Ridge Assisted Living center . She was reportedly sitting in her chair when the intruder removed the screen from her window, climbed into her apartment and dragged her onto the floor, according to incident reports. The attacker allegedly strangled the woman and beat her in the face and head, causing her dentures to fly out of her mouth, while raping her, police say. RELATED: Charg...

Two townhouses in the Carnegie Hill area of Manhattan's Upper East Side are to be combined into a stunning megamansion, if plans approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday go ahead. Matthew Harris, a partner at the investment fund Global Infrastructure Partners , bought up 53 and 55 East 92nd Street , just a block and a half from Central Park, with the intention of creating a stunning six- story super mansion . The front of the buildings, which were build around the turn of the century, will remain much the same, but the rear will be replaced with a massive glass facade , while the back yard will be turned into a sunken garden - a far cry from the traffic of nearby Madison and Park Avenues. But it's the inside that will see the real changes, dnainfo reported.  55 East 92nd Street (pictured) are a pair of ordinary townhouses" class="blkBorder img-share" /> Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday go ahead, its rear (seen in mock-up...

A 20-year-old Kennewick man is dead in a gang- related shooting at the Heatherstone Apartments. Jorge Antonio Jimenez was shot in the stomach and leg when he confronted two suspects carving their rival gang insignia into the paint of his gold SUV parked in the complex lot Monday night . Police were looking Tuesday for two male suspects seen running north through the complex across the street from Park Middle School . Officers were called shortly before 9 p.m. Monday to a report of several shots fired at 1138 W. 10th Ave. in the parking lot of the F Building. “At least a dozen shots were fired by the suspect with a handgun, with at least two of the bullets striking the victim,” said Kennewick Sgt. Ken Lattin. Some friends helped a wounded Jimenez back to his second-floor apartment, where he died before police and paramedics arrived. On Tuesday, Suzy and Jose Nieto of Wenatchee told the Herald their 19-year-old daughter and their 1-year-old granddaughter lived with Jimenez. Their da...

POINT BREEZE (WTXF) - Police are investigating the deaths of two people inside an apartment in Philadelphia’s Point Breeze neighborhood after they responded to a call from a family member late Sunday night . Officers responded to the 1300 block of Federal Street just before midnight after a family member found the victim’s on the floor of their first-floor apartment. Police say the victims,  50-year-old Candido Gonzalez and 23-year-old Caitlyn Jaje, were found dead in different rooms. Investigators say both victims had been tied up, had bruises on their faces and bodies, and may have been strangled. The home appeared to have been ransacked, but there was no sign of forced entry, according to police. While a cause has not been found, police say, the couple-had been assaulted.   This morning there was deep sorrow. A resident of Federal, who asked not to be identified, says there was "heavy traffic" in and out of the home and the couple's arguments were often loud. Cri...

Sophomore, who had been expected to compete for starting role, suspended indefinitely appears Friday at the Boulder County Jail ." alt="Anthony Julmisse, 19, appears Friday at the Boulder County Jail ." style="border: 0px;" /> Anthony Julmisse, 19, appears Friday at the Boulder County Jail . ( Matthew Jonas / Staff Photographer ) A Colorado Buffaloes sophomore cornerback accused of trying to push a woman down a stairwell has been arrested on allegations of assault, harassment and domestic violence on the eve of fall camp. Head coach Mike MacIntyre said he suspended Anthony Julmisse , 19, indefinitely, and pointed out in a statement that he immediately reported the allegations to the University of Colorado's Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance. "We will determine any further disciplinary action after receiving more information," MacIntyre said in a statement. "I am very troubled by these allegations, ...

House Speaker Richard Corcoran has created a special committee to determine whether freshman Miami state Rep . Daisy Baez should be sanctioned for potentially violating a state law that requires her to reside in her district. The Miami Herald reported in May that it appeared that Baez, a Democrat, does not reside in House District 114 that she represents but instead lives in a Coral Gables house about half a mile away. Florida requires lawmakers to live and vote in the districts they represent by Election Day. Baez said Thursday through a spokesperson that the house is listed for sale and she continues to live in an apartment in the district. “I look forward to resolving this matter, and I remain focused on the issues that matter to Florida families — improving our schools, making healthcare more affordable and improving our public transportation,” she said in a statement. According to Zillow, the real estate website , Baez’s 1,548-square- foot Coral Gables home with a pool was li...

TOLLING THE TYCOONS — Albanese calls for 'politically popular' pied-à-terre tax, by POLITICO New York’s Conor Skelding : Foreign "oligarchs" who own real estate in New York but don't live in the city should have to pay two or three times what they pay now in property taxes, Democratic mayoral candidate Sal Albanese said Wednesday. The "politically popular" new tax's revenue, which Albanese said would amount to billions, could then be put toward the development of affordable housing . "Look, there's a lot of money across the world that people want to outsource," he said during a news conference outside the gates of City Hall. "There's a lot of money there, and we can use that to build real affordable housing ." Mayor Bill de Blasio promised years ago to "take a look" at a pied-à-terre tax, but the proposal is opposed by many of the city's real estate interests . "They own Bill de Blasio , big real estat...