The 16-year-old boy accused of murdering his mother and shooting his father had been in trouble at Wellington’s McCormick Middle School four years ago after threatening to bring a gun to school, though the boy passed the threat off as a joke relating to a church play he was in, according to a Wellington police [...]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Walls of wind-whipped flames consumed hundreds of homes across tinder-dry Southern California today, raising the number of people forced to flee the flames into the hundreds of thousands. The blazes bedeviled firefighters as fires roared from mountain passes to the edges of the state’s celebrated coastline, spreading so quickly that even [...]

Police: Bullying was factor CLEVELAND — A 15-year-old girl who had been bullied was stabbed to death during an attack by another teenager, police said. Annetta Holliman Anthony Holliman Yulanda Holliman Demesha Sharp was attacked Friday night while walking to a bus stop with siblings and friends. A sport utility vehicle appeared and tried to [...]

LORAIN — Lorain police are investigating three female students’ claims that one of their male teachers at The Arts Academy in Lorain poked them in the breast with his pen. The Friday incident centered on a 58-year-old teacher who had been hired one month ago, according to a Lorain police report. The three students, whose [...]

Teen accused of murdering mom, maiming dad Daniel Petric in a 2005 yearbook photo ELYRIA — Daniel Petric sat expressionless Monday as a county Juvenile Court magistrate read off the charges leveled against him — murder for the shooting death of his mother and attempted murder for allegedly shooting his father, a pastor at a [...]