Thirteen-year-old April Ajoy had a sense something wasn’t right. It was quiet in her Dallas house. Too quiet. Her brothers were gone. Her parents were gone. On her parents’ bed, a pile of her mother’s clothes signaled something terrifying.
A truck driver died in a fiery crash near Dallas on Tuesday when their 18-wheeler collided with another vehicle on a highway and fell to the roadway below, police said.
A portion of Interstate 95 was closed for hours Wednesday as state police investigated an overnight shooting that left one person dead and two injured.
![Iowa Teen Who Fatally Stabbed Her Alleged Rapist Could Face Up to 20 Years in Prison[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Pieper Lewis[/caption] An Iowa teen who fatally stabbed her alleged rapist could face up to 20 years in prison. Pieper Lewis, 17, pleaded guilty in June 2021 to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks. The teen is set to be sentenced Wednesday in a Polk County Courtroom in Des Moines. Pieper allegedly stabbed Brooks 30 times in the chest, arms and groin after he allegedly sexually assaulted her multiple times in the days leading up to the killing, the Des Moines Register reported, citing court documents. According to Pieper’s plea agreement obtained by PEOPLE, the teen, who was 15 at the time, said she ran away from home three times between January and March 2020 before she started sleeping in the hallway of a building in Des Moines. In a statement she made as part of her plea agreement, Pieper said she briefly stayed with a man in the building but left after he became “verbally, physically and sexually abusive towards me shortly after I moved into his apartment.” Pieper said she then moved in with another man who lived across the hall, and lived with him from mid-April until her arrest on June 2, 2020. Pieper said shortly after she moved in the man created a dating profile for her and put it on a dating website. Click here to read more. SOURCE: PEOPLE, Christine Pelisek](https://i2.wp.com/who13.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2022/09/pieper-lewis.jpg?w=450&ssl=1)
An Iowa teen who fatally stabbed her alleged rapist could face up to 20 years in prison.
A 19-year-old man who went on a shooting rampage through Memphis has been arrested, police say.
A northwest Missouri man has been accused of beating his 6-year-old daughter to death with a baseball bat.
As Memphis authorities released new details in the kidnapping of jogger Eliza Fletcher, the suspect in the fatal abduction appeared in court Wednesday to face murder charges.
A man charged in the deaths of his live-in girlfriend and her son, whose dismembered bodies were discovered in central Alabama after a 12-year-old girl escaped captivity in a rural mobile home, has admitted to killing the two, prosecutors told a judge.
A Wisconsin morning news anchor and former college basketball player died suddenly Saturday at age 27 in an apparent suicide.
Three Dutch commandos in the United States for training exercises were wounded in a shooting outside their hotel in Indianapolis on Friday night, the Dutch Defense Ministry said.
A 5-year-old died in a vehicle outside his Texas elementary school Thursday as triple-digit heat was recorded in the region, officials said.
A Louisiana mother said she was denied an abortion even though doctors told her that her baby had a rare birth defect and would not survive.
