Mar. 15, 2025
Suspected shoplifters crashed their car into another as they fled from police.
Two teenagers in New Orleans, La., have died in a car crash after colliding with several people accused of shoplifting in another car, the New Orleans Police Department confirms to PEOPLE.
According toWAFB9, the Orleans Parish Coroner told the outlet that 17-year-olds Giselle Smith and Semaj Morris were the victims of the crash. The outlet also shared that Smith’s sister Paris Kiper, 21, was the third passenger in the car.
Mar. 15, 2025
The site of the grenade explosion that killed two toddlers in Cambodia on Feb. 22.Photo:Cambodia Mine Action Center/Facebook
Cambodia Mine Action Center/Facebook
The decades-old explosive killed the toddlers, one boy and one girl, on Saturday, Feb. 22, after it blew up near their homes in northwestern Cambodia, the director of theCambodian Mine Action Center(CMAC) said in aFacebookpost later that day.
The incident occurred at Kranhuong, a village in Siem Reap province’s Svay Leu district, CMAC Director Heng Ratana said in the post, which was originally penned in the Cambodian language of Khmer.
Mar. 15, 2025
A photo of Virginia police investigating the area where the incident took place.Photo:WTKR News 3/Youtube
WTKR News 3/Youtube
Two officers with the Virginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) are dead after being killed in the line of duty, according to authorities.
The VBPD announced the news in apost on Xon Saturday, Feb. 22, stating that the two officers — later identified in a press conference as Cameron Girvin, 25, and Christopher Reese, 30 — were “shot” on Friday, Feb.
Mar. 15, 2025
Sarah Pasco.Photo:Sarah Pasco/Facebook
Sarah Pasco/Facebook
TheSpringfield Daily Citizenreportedthis week that Melissa Pugh testified against Steven Chase Calverley, who was one of nine people charged in the August 2020 kidnapping that killed her friend Sarah Pasco and nearly ended her own life, as well. Calverley was ultimately convicted of second-degree murder and other charges.
Pasco, 27, was shot in the head and killed after her kidnapper Gary Hunter Jr. and eight accomplices forced her into a well in Lawrence County, Missouri, that was located in the middle of the woods.
Mar. 15, 2025
The largest diamond to be unearthed in more than a century has beenfound in Botswana, a country in Southern Africa.
Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, and William Lamb, President and CEO of Lucara Diamond Corp. — the Canadian mining company that found the precious stone — announced the discovery on Thursday, Aug. 22.
In apress release, Lucara called the find “remarkable,” adding that the 2,492-carat diamond is “one of the largest rough diamonds ever unearthed.