By Kyle Schwab Staff Writer kschwab@oklahoman.com
The mother of a 5-month-old baby girl who died after being left alone in a hot vehicle for hours was convicted Thursday of felony child neglect.
Adele Gonzales, 37, of Del City, claims she didn't know her baby was in her SUV when she and her teenage daughter spent more than two hours at a nail salon on the afternoon of Aug.
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By Nolan Clay Staff Writer nclay@oklahoman.com
NORMAN — A jury was told Thursday that murder defendant Alton Alexander Nolen beheaded a co-worker in 2014 at a Moore food plant because of delusional religious beliefs.
"He believed it 100 percent that what he was doing was right," attorney Shea Smith said in the defense's opening statement to jurors.
Nolen's three court-appointed defense attorneys are asking jurors to find him not guilty by reason of insanity.
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ALABAMA -- According to Fairhope Police, a resident notified the Fairhope Police Department that her dog had been shot on Sunday.
The victim, Jacqueline Reed , said she was walking two pet dogs, each on a leash, in her yard.
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An explosion on a Tube train in south-west London is being treated as terrorism, Scotland Yard has said.
Passengers were injured following the blast at 08:20 BST at Parsons Green station on the District Line.
Pictures show a white bucket on fire inside a supermarket bag, but do not appear to show extensive damage to the inside of the carriage.
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Fire investigators have determined a fire was intentionally set Thursday in an Oklahoma City bookstore where a body of a man was found, a fire spokesman reports.
A man was found dead under a pile of books at 30 Penn Books, 3012 N Pennsylvania Ave., about 4:45 p.m.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland woman repeatedly stabbed her boyfriend in a fit of rage after finding him naked on top of her daughter, according to police records.
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By Nolan Clay Staff Writer nclay@oklahoman.com
NORMAN — The witnesses to a beheading at a Moore food plant described Friday how a suspended worker surprised his victim from behind and kept sawing at her neck with a butcher knife despite attempts to stop him.
Their testimony came at the murder trial for Alton Alexander Nolen, 33, who never reacted and kept his fingers in his ears all day.
"I was looking at something horrific, something that people shouldn't have to see, pretty much powerless to do anything about it," the first witness, Gary Hazelrigg, told jurors Friday.
Nolen attacked customer services representative Colleen Hufford because he mistook her for another woman who had accidentally bumped into him days before, prosecutors allege.
Hufford, 54, died on Sept.
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FAIRVIEW — One of two men who escaped from a prison van in northwest Oklahoma last month was found more than 1,000 miles from where he fled and taken into custody Friday.
Andrew Jason Foy, 32, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was captured in Pennsylvania, according to the Major County sheriff's office.
Foy and Darren Walp, 37, of Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania, were being taken to different jails by a private prison transport service on Aug.
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By Josh Wallace Staff Writer jwallace@oklahoman.com
During a late-night, tension-filled budget meeting in a crowded Capitol conference room in May, Travis Goss Brauer sat on the floor, just a few feet from where a protester stood wearing a blue dress.
Brauer, 29, an aide to Gov.
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By Matt Dinger Staff Writer mdinger@oklahoman.com
CHICKASHA — Two police officers were shot Sunday afternoon while serving a warrant, and the man who shot them was arrested.
Authorities did not immediately release the names of those involved.
About 3 p.m., the officers were serving a warrant at a home in Chickasha when they were shot.
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By Nolan Clay Staff Writer nclay@oklahoman.com
The FBI searched the Capitol office of former state Sen. Ralph Shortey in March because a campaign aide reportedly saw child pornography on Shortey's computer there, newly released court documents show.
Shortey, R-Oklahoma City, is facing trial in Oklahoma City federal court on three child pornography counts and one child sex trafficking count.
He came under investigation after Moore police found him with a 17-year-old boy inside a hotel room about 1 a.m.
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CLEVELAND - An Ohio man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison without the chance of parole for breaking into two homes and abducting and raping a 6-year-old girl and attempting to abduct a 10-year-old girl.
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A 14-year-old girl was raped in a “horrendous attack” in broad daylight in a London park, police have said.
The teenager was in a secluded part of Avery Hill Park, off Avery Hill Road in Greenwich, when she was attacked between 9am and 1pm on 4 September.
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The number of people arrested for terrorism-linked offences rose 68% to a record 379 in the 12 months to June, one of the most intense periods for terrorist attacks in recent history.
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Hackers broke into British company Piriform's free software for optimizing computer performance last month potentially allowing them to control the devices of more than two million users, the company and independent researchers said on Monday.
The malicious program was slipped into legitimate software called CCleaner, which is downloaded for personal computers and Android phones as often as five million times a week.
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SHAWNEE — Law officers are investigating a death of a man found in a car Monday near U.S. 177 and Interstate 40 as a homicide, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokeswoman said.
About 8:30 am.
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BOARDMAN TWP., Ohio - The age-old question of how to discipline a child had a Boardman man behind bars, after a unique attempt at discipline.
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ENID — An animal control officer, a police officer and a dog bite victim are recovering Monday after being wounded when an officer fired a shotgun at one of three vicious dogs, police report.
An animal control officer saw a man being attacked by three vicious dogs about 9:20 a.m.
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