GEORGIA – Authorities say two men and one woman were arrested by Georgia State Police after two boys were reported as being kidnapped. Asheville police say Georgia suspects, Natasha Cantrell, Christopher Carter, and Chadwick Agan are being held in the Jackson County Jail in Georgia. Cantrell and Carter are each charged with 2nd degree kidnapping and child abduction. Agan is charged with 2 counts of child abduction. A fourth suspect, Trena Weaver of Asheville, is charged with misdemeanor child abuse. An Amber Alert was issued for 1-year-old Elijah Joyner and 3-year-old Harlee Joyner around 12:00 Sunday afternoon. The alert was lifted around 2:30 p.m. READ MORE HERE

INVERNESS, Florida – Prosecutors have charged an Inverness man with kidnapping after an 8-year-old girl managed to escape her captor. Jeffery Story, 20, is accused of nabbing the young girl through her bedroom window in the middle of the night. READ MORE HERE

Citrus man charged with kidnapping girl from her bedroom

Citrus County man arrested for kidnapping girl

Man, 20, charged with kidnapping girl

TV icon Bill Cosby, who allegedly used his celebrity over the years to sexually assault more than 50 women, has filed a defamation suit against seven of his accusers, his attorney said. The famed comedian, 78, once among America’s biggest television stars, filed suit in a court in Springfield, Massachusetts, his attorney Monique Pressley said in a statement. Cosby’s suit, accusing the women of defamation and “intentional infliction of emotional distress,” staunchly rejects the sex assault allegations that have derailed his career and sullied his once sterling reputation. READ MORE HERE

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Bill Cosby countersues 7 accusers

Bill Cosby sues women who accused him of sexual assault

VERSAILLES, Kentucky – The stabbing death of a kindergartner asleep in his home has plunged this Kentucky town into mourning, and shaken neighbors are rallying around the family even as they worry about their security. A man from Indiana described by authorities as having no apparent ties to the town or family has been charged with murder. READ MORE HERE

Man hugged girl, 7, then killed her

Emma Watson Nowling took a quick break from soccer practice Thursday night to greet a man walking by the sidelines. “Little Emma went up and gave the guy a hug,” Emma’s soccer coach, Mario Scicluna, said. Later that night, that man, Timothy Nelson Obeshaw, shot 7-year-old Emma and her mother, 37-year-old Sharon Elizabeth Watson, in the parking lot of the Taylor Sportsplex before turning his 9mm pistol on himself, according to Taylor police. Authorities described Obeshaw as a family friend. READ MORE HERE

Grandmother Of Slain 7-YO Girl Speaks Out About Murderer

Counselors to help slain 7-year-old girl’s classmates

Girl, 7, Shot Dead by ‘Paranoid’ Family Friend in Taylor

(CNN) —The crying coming from under a block of asphalt sounded like it was from a cat to Angelica Blount. But it turned out to be an abandoned baby that police say was deliberately buried under debris along a Los Angeles area walking path. Blount was walking in Compton on Friday, when her sister Evangelina McCrary pointed the sound out to her. READ MORE HERE

Newborn in stable condition after being found ‘buried alive’

Newborn girl found buried alive rescued in Los Angeles

Newborn baby found buried alive near California bike path

Child Found Murdered 25-minutes After Mother Reported Her Missing

KY – A seven-year-old girl whose body was found in a Kentucky creek on Saturday night was the victim of a homicide, state police confirmed Monday. Gabriella Doolin was discovered in a creek behind a high school in Scottsville, a town near the Tennessee border, at 8:05 p.m. — just 25 minutes after her mother, Amy, reported her missing. READ MORE HERE

Death of 7-year-old Girl Missing at Football Game in Kentucky Ruled a Homicide

7-year-old Kentucky girl Gabriella Doolin found dead

Murder-suicide left 4 dead, 1 critical

Six months ago, a pregnant Megan Hiatt posted this message on Facebook about the father of the twins she was about to have: “He’s my rock, my heart, my love, my ride or die, my handsome man, my one and only, my forever.” Her “forever” man was Gawain Rushane Wilson. Police say Wilson, 28, shot Megan, the 5-month-old twin girls, Hayden Rose and Kayden Reese, and their grandfather, Travis James Hiatt, 49, Friday in his Northside home. He then turned the gun on himself. READ MORE HERE

5-month-old twin girls among the four killed in Oceanway murder-suicide

Infant Twins Among Four Killed In Jacksonville Murder-Suicide

Pretoria – The man who murdered and raped his 4-year-old niece Jasmin Pretorius received two life sentences in court on Friday. Judge Mahomed Ismail said Sarel du Toit‘s actions were evil and the rape was an act of brutality. Little Jasmin, 4, dearly loved and trusted her uncle who raped her before strangling her to death with his hands. This is according to Jasmin’s mother, Sasha Bam, who took the stand in the high court in Pretoria on Tuesday. She testified in aggravation of sentence after her child’s rapist and killer Sarel du Toit pleaded guilty to the charges. According to the doctor who did the post-mortem, the child’s injuries showed she had put up quite a struggle. READ MORE HERE

Jasmin Pretorius’s killer gets two life sentences

4-year-old in extreme pain before death, court hears

More details emerge of Jasmin Pretorius’s murder, rape

Jasmin’s Killer – Her Uncle (pictured below):

CHICAGO – Nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee was targeted because of his father’s gang ties, lured into a South Side alley Monday afternoon and executed, Chicago police officials said Thursday. Speaking at the edge of the Gresham alley where Tyshawn was shot multiple times, Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy called the slaying “probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime” he had seen in his 35 years in law enforcement. McCarthy said police believe Tyshawn was killed because of his father’s gang ties and a recent series of shootings between rival gangs. READ MORE HERE

TEXAS – A mother in north Texas is facing a capital murder charge for allegedly killing her one-day-old baby girl that she was ‘trying to keep from crying.’ According to the Weatherford Police Department, a man called Tuesday requesting a welfare check at the home of his estranged, pregnant wife. He said Ashley Nicole Blades, 22, contacted him via text to tell him that she’d given birth, but the baby had died. Once officers arrived to Blades’ home, she told them in an interview that the infant was in the trunk of her car, a silver Ford Focus. READ MORE HERE

Five wounded in stabbing rampage at California college

Five students were stabbed Wednesday at the University of California, Merced, and the suspect was fatally shot by police, the school said. “Update: 5 students stabbed; 2 sent out via medical helicopter; 3 treated on campus. All conscious.” the school tweeted. The school later tweeted that the suspect had been killed by officers at the scene. The campus was closed and classes were canceled for the day. The stabbing attack took place in front of a classroom, officials said. READ MORE HERE

Five wounded in stabbing rampage at California college

5 Students Stabbed, Suspect Killed on California College Campus

The Latest: 5 Stabbed, Suspect Killed at California College

MINNEAPOLIS – Authorities have officially identified a person of interest in the 26-year-old disappearance of Jacob Wetterling in St. Joseph, Minn. Danny James Heinrich, 52, was arrested at his home in Annandale, Minn. Wednesday night for possession of child pornography during a search for evidence related to a separate kidnapping and sexual assault of a young boy in Cold Spring, Minn. in 1989, that occurred just months before Wetterling’s disappearance. READ MORE HERE

Danny James Heinrich – Suspect Arrested

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Man arrested after allegedly slamming 3-mo baby on floor

CINCINNATI —A Mount Healthy man was taken into custody Saturday night after allegedly critically injuring an infant. Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil said James Phillips, 35, was arrested and charged with felonious assault and child endangering. Police said the incident happened in the 8000 block of Hamilton Avenue in Mount Healthy. READ MORE HERE

James Phillips accused of killing baby daughter

$4M bond for father accused of slamming baby to floor