Mar. 15, 2025
Ruben Alarcon, Andrea Alarcon, Scarlett Alarcon and Emma Alarcon.Photo:Union Funeral Home
Union Funeral Home
A New Jersey community is reeling after authorities say a 42-year-old mother of two fatally shot her husband and children before shooting herself in a murder-suicide.
Union County Sheriff’s Department officers found Andrea Alarcon and her husband Ruben Alarcon, 51, and their two daughters in their Union. N.J., home on Wednesday, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office said in a pressstatementlast week.
Mar. 15, 2025
Second from left: Greg Countryman and his son Grey Countryman Jr.Photo: Sheriff Greg Countryman/Facebook
A newly sworn in sheriff’s deputy in Georgia is being praised for his help in the rescue of two unconscious young children pulled from a swimming pool.
Muscogee County Deputy Greg Countryman Jr., 22, was on his way home after his shift on May 16 when he received the call that a child had been pulled from their family’s pool unconscious,11 Alivereported.
Mar. 15, 2025
Deputy crashed into Tennessee river.Photo:9ABC/Youtube
9ABC/Youtube
A deputy and a woman he had recently arrested were found dead in the Tennessee River late last week, according to the local district attorney.
Leonard, who had only been with the force for two months, had arrested the woman just minutes prior to the crash, according to a news release from the Tennessee Police Benevolent Association.
The deputy’s car “was located upside down in the Tennessee River” the following day, the TPBA said.
Mar. 15, 2025
George Floyd, at left, and Derek Chauvin.Photo: Splash
Former Minneapolis police officerDerek Chauvinhas been sentenced to 21 years in federal prison after pleading guilty last December to violatingGeorge Floyd’s civil rights in 2020 as well as those of a 14-year-old in 2017, according to multiple reports.
He will be given seven months credit for time served, making his sentence 245 months, or a little more than 20 years,KARE reports.
Prosecutors had asked for 25 years, while Chauvin’s defense attorneys had asked for 20 years.
Mar. 15, 2025
Derek Chauvin.Photo:Minnesota Judicial Branch via AP
Minnesota Judicial Branch via AP
Officials have charged the federal inmate accused ofstabbing Derek Chauvin22 times with attempted murder.
On Friday, the United States Attorney’s Office stated that in addition to the attempted murder charge, John Turscak, 52, was also charged with assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and assault resulting in serious bodily injury to the former Minneapolis police officer, 47, convicted of murderingGeorge Floydin May 2020.