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A woman was arrested Tuesday after a Pasadena family was subjected to a disturbing display of destruction as a woman smashed their windows with a pickaxe. Beverly Baker, 65, was arrested and charged with vandalism. Police said she was having a mental health crisis at the time of the incident. She is expected to be arraigned Wednesday. "We got targeted. This is not normal," said homeowner Arman Tchoukadarian. Tchoukadarian and his family had just moved into their dream house a few months ago but their sense of security has already vanished following this terrifying attack that resembles a scene from...

Two girls were reportedly raped on back-to-back days while on their way to school in Philadelphia. The first victim, 15, was raped Thursday morning after she got off a SEPTA train at the 8th Street stop, according to Fox 29. The second victim, 13, was raped Friday after she got off at the SEPTA train station at Broad and Race streets, ... The suspect from the first incident allegedly tried to speak with the teenager while they were both on the subway train, Fox 29 reported. When the girl exited the train, the suspect followed her and tried unsuccessfully to...

Seven children who were rescued from their abusive mother have detailed the years of torture she inflicted on them - including forcing them to drink bleach and pouring it over their genitals. The alarm was raised on Tuesday, when two of the children - 16-year-old twins, a boy and a girl - managed to escape from the family home in Houston, Texas and convince a neighbor to help. The mother, Zaikiya Duncan, 40, and her boyfriend Jova Terrell, 27, left the house on learning the twins had escaped and were arrested later that day in Baton Rouge - a four...

A 22-year-old Dayton man, convicted as a serial robber who hit gas stations from Warren to Greene counties, is going to prison for at least nine years, Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said Thursday afternoon. Da’Sean McCleskey pleaded guilty in August to seven felony counts of aggravated robbery with a firearm. County Common Pleas Judge Robert Peeler sentenced him Thursday to nine to 10-and-a-half years in prison, Fornshell’s office said in a news release. MCleskey committed seven armed robberies of gas stations in Franklin, Moraine, Huber Heights, Beavercreek and Riverside from Dec. 21, 2021 through Jan. 19, 2022, according to...

Police in Stockton, Calif., say a suspect has been arrested in a series of killings that rattled nearby communities. Wesley Brownlee, 43, was taken into custody early Saturday, Stockton Police Department Chief Stanley McFadden said at a news conference. Charges were pending. "Our surveillance team followed this person while he was driving," he said. "He was on a mission to kill. He was out hunting."

The victim told officers Jal attacked her because he was upset she was wearing a shirt with the American flag on it. Jal allegedly choked the victim and punched her, then ripped a towel rack out of the wall and stabbed the victim with it. Police say the victim had a puncture wound.

A Wisconsin father says he's lucky to be alive after he was shot in the face late last month when a pair of customers, twin sisters aged 20, became angry about a missing $3 burger from their order. According to WISN, 26-year-old Anthony Rodriguez was working at the George Webb restaurant in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, when on January 30, the shooting occurred. Rodriguez was the only server working at midnight that day, when the twin sisters grew angry about their order, and shot the father of one in the face.20-year-old twin sisters Bryanna and Brent Johnson were allegedly "impatient and rude"...