Author: Kent Smith

Thomas Marx/iStock(SANTA CLARA, Calif.) — A small boy who wandered onto railroad tracks has been struck and killed by an Amtrak train. The accident occurred at about 4:19 p.m. on the Union Pacific tracks in Santa Clara, California when the “very young minor” somehow got onto the railroad tracks and was hit, according to ABC’s San Francisco station KGO-TV. The Santa Clara Police and Fire departments are on the scene and currently conducting an investigation alongside Amtrak Police as to how and why the boy was on the tracks when…

Richard_Lawrence_Photo/iStock(SAN DIEGO) — Five family members are dead, and another is undergoing emergency surgery following a shooting at a San Diego home, just a day after one of the victims obtained a restraining order against the alleged suspect. “We are not looking for a suspect. This was a domestic dispute involving one family,” San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said during a press conference Saturday. A 31-year-old male, a 29-year-old female and a 3-year-old boy were pronounced dead at the scene. Three other children were rushed to a local hospital…

Washoe County Sheriffs Office(SAN FRANCISCO) — Cold-case investigators may have solved a 40-year-old murder with the arrest of a 73-year-old Arizona man. Charles Gary Sullivan was charged Friday with open murder of 21-year-old Julia Woodward of San Rafael, California, 40 years after the woman’s bludgeoned body was discovered in a shallow grave near Reno, Nevada, authorities said. Sullivan is scheduled to be arraigned in Washoe District Court on Nov. 19, according Woodward had left her family’s California home on Feb. 1, 1979, to go job hunting in Nevada. Two months…

Brigeton Police Department(NEW YORK) — Saturday marks two months since a 5-year-old girl vanished from a New Jersey playground. Dulce Maria Alavez was last seen on Sept. 16 playing in a Bridgeton park with her little brother as her mother sat in a car nearby. Since then, the Bridgeton Police Department, the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office and the FBI have been investigating her disappearance, while the little girl’s family has led its own door-to-door search. A reward of $52,000 — from a mix of law enforcement and local businesses, among…