Month: November 2025

By Brooke Butler

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    STATESBORO, Georgia (WJCL) — Thirteen years after a Statesboro man vanished without a trace, his family and investigators are once again pleading for answers.

Julius Owens disappeared in early November 2012, leaving behind a mother, siblings and two young daughters who have grown up without knowing what happened to him.

“For a mother to not have an answer is one of the hardest things in the world,” said his mother, Vera Owens.

Owens vividly remembers the day her son disappeared. She was in class when she had a bad gut feeling.

“On this day, it was cold. It was wet. It was dreary, but Julius just stayed on my mind. I couldn’t focus on the test or anything, I just had this motherly gut feeling that something was wrong,” she said.

When she didn’t hear from Julius, she contacted police.

“She talked to him every day,” said Statesboro Police Capt. Jared Akins. “She knew him as somebody that would communicate with her pretty much every day and she went for close to a 24-hour period and just didn’t see him.”

Soon after Owens disappeared, someone found his phone at an apartment complex he had no known ties to.

“Detectives responded to that area and found not only the phone, but found Mr. Owens’ vehicle,” Akins said. “There was obvious signs of some sort of violence that had occurred within the actual vehicle itself.”

That discovery made investigators fear the worst.

“Obviously, we’re getting a bad feeling about the fact that he may not simply have gone off and be missing of his own volition,” Akins said.

Detectives later obtained a search warrant for Owens’ phone. SPD said the last known signal placed him in a neighborhood off Pulaski Highway in unincorporated Bulloch County. Police conducted multiple searches in the area.

“There’s an awful lot of wooded terrain, some things which would make it pretty easy to conceal somebody in that area,” Akins said. “None of those searches turned up any remains of Mr. Owens.”

For Owens and her family, the pain of not knowing has never faded.

“[His daughters] grew up in life without their father in their life. They could not say, ‘My daddy was shot,’ or, ‘He was in an accident,’ they weren’t able to say that,” Vera Owens said.

One of those daughters said in a statement, “I didn’t get to grow up with him the way I wish I could have, but I carry him with me in everything I do. I never got enough time with my dad, but the little time I had meant everything.”

The lack of closure for Owens’ loved ones is why Vera and detectives hope someone with information will finally come forward.

“It’s not too late, because Julius is still out there and we still do not have an answer, and there’s a case that still needs to be solved,” Owens said. “So it’s not too late to speak up.”

Anyone with information about the disappearance of Julius Owens is asked to contact the Statesboro Police Department at 912-764-9911.

Police say even the smallest tip, something heard through the grapevine, could be the key to bringing his family long-awaited answers.

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By Marc Anthony Lopez

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    FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Five dogs have died and a family is displaced after a two-alarm fire broke out in a central Fresno apartment unit.

The Fresno Fire Department says the flames broke out after 3:45 p.m. Thursday at the Fresno Glenn Apartments on Glenn and Voorman avenues.

Crews requested additional help over concerns that the fire could spread to other units.

Firefighters were able to contain the flames to one apartment and neighboring units suffered smoke damage.

The family inside the apartment was able to escape safely but investigators say five dogs were killed in the fire.

The cause remains under investigation.

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By DeAndria Turner

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    LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — It’s been two days since the UPS cargo plane crash that left the Louisville community heartbroken. On Thursday night, families, coworkers, and city leaders came together to heal and honor the lives lost.

In the midst of devastation, the heart of Louisville shone through. Dozens of community members gathered to pay their respects to those who lost their lives in the tragedy.

“Something like this happening to my home, my family — it’s devastating,” Darryl Moore said.

As the sun set over the city, hearts were heavy, mourning the lives lost after the UPS plane crash and massive fire that shook Louisville earlier this week.

“It’s just comforting for people to show their love to Louisville, Kentucky,” another community member said.

During the vigil, prayers filled the air as candles flickered in the crowd.

“I pray that you pour out blessings and mercy upon us,” one attendee said.

“We’re going to take it day by day. We’re going to get through this together,” Moore added.

The community gathered at the Teamsters Union Hall. UPS employees, neighbors, and local leaders joined in remembrance and hope.

“Life is busy, life is hard. But having a little bit of compassion for other people and people stepping up like this, I mean, it just tells you what Louisville is all about,” Kim Priddi-Wolfe said.

Among those in attendance was Darryl Moore, a UPS employee of ten years, who said the tragedy hit close to home.

“I never imagined something like this happening in our backyard. And the fact that this time it did, puts a lot of things in perspective. It makes you realize how fragile life is,” Moore said.

That fragility was felt by everyone, from toddlers to city and state leaders, all standing together to be Louisville Strong.

There is another prayer vigil Friday night at 7 p.m. at Waterfront Park.

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By Zach Rainey

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    STEPHENS COUNTY, Georgia (WYFF) — A man in Stephens County, Georgia, has been arrested for allegedly possessing video containing child sexual abuse and bestiality.

On Monday, the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by the FBI Atlanta-Gainesville Resident Agency about an ongoing case where a suspect was determined to live in Stephens County.

After an arrest was made by the FBI Pittsburgh Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force in Pennsylvania, the FBI Atlanta-Gainesville office received information about 59-year-old Jimmie Dominici, Jr. of Toccoa.

During the investigation, agents discovered messages between Dominici and the suspect in Pennsylvania containing child pornography. These messages were sent between the months of February through August 2025.

According to authorities, the subject matter of the messages was sexual in nature, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and videos of subjects engaging in bestiality.

Investigators confirmed the material included CSAM and bestiality. Videos contained inappropriate material of children ranging in age from four months old to eight years old, as well as various incidents involving dogs.

Around 1 p.m. Wednesday, authorities arrested Dominici and searched his home on Cawthon Road. During the search, investigators found and collected various electronic devices to be analyzed at a later date.

Dominici was booked into the Stephens County Jail on three counts of sexual exploitation of children and bestiality.

Deputies said through further information obtained from the FBI, it was determined that the 4-month old in the video was positively identified and rescued. The suspect involved was arrested in Ohio on sexual assault charges.

The sheriff’s office said the investigation is ongoing and future charges may be pending.

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    STETSON, Maine (WMTW) — A man who police say has a long criminal history is facing new charges after officers say he caused a police standoff and then led them on a chase.

At about 10:22 a.m. on Thursday, deputies from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office went to a home on Mullen Road in Stetson at the request of Maine Probation and Parole officers.

Probation officers say they were trying to find Mackenzie Sibley, 40, who they say is transient, on a warrant for probation revocation for absconding his probation for felony convictions.

When police arrived, they say Sibley barricaded himself in a bathroom and refused to come out. Police also learned that Sibley likely had a large hunting-style knife.

Because of Sibley’s criminal history, police called in backup, including K9 Memphis, but before the K9 team arrived, officers say Sibley ran out the back door of the home.

Deputies chased Sibley into the woods and K9 Memphis arrived and was deployed to track him.

Police say several people in the area have trail cameras and officers were able to watch the video and track Sibley. After a few hours, using images from those trail cameras to determine where to look, deputies again deployed K9 Memphis, who was able to track Sibley through some dense woods and Sibley was taken into custody.

Sibley was arrested on the probation revocation warrant and charged with refusing to submit to arrest.

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By Jessica Brown

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    BOSTON (WCVB) — A breakthrough treatment is giving a Boston man a new lease on life after suffering a stroke at just 29 years old.

Twenty-nine-year-old Chris Jacquith is training for the Boston Marathon just months after suffering a stroke.

“I stood up off the couch and I immediately fell backwards, lost my balance. My right leg was kind of stiff, and so we’re like, OK, this is very odd,” Jacquith said.

His symptoms got worse throughout the day.

“I couldn’t really use my hands,” he said.

Jacquith rushed to Tufts Medical Center, where doctors confirmed he was in the middle of a stroke.

“As I got out of that CAT scan, they were like, you’re in the middle of a cerebellar stroke, you’re going to be okay, but we’re going to monitor vitals and keep you comfortable while your body gets through this,” Jacquith said.

Doctors discovered the cause. Chris had something many people never realize they have- a PFO, or patent foramen ovale. It’s a small hole between the upper chambers of the heart.

“It was all new information,” Jacquith said.

Dr. Carey Kimmelstiel, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab and Interventional Cardiology at Tufts, says PFOs are common.

“Twenty-five percent of all humans walking on the earth have a PFO, so it’s very, very common,” Kimmelstiel said.

He also says most people will never know.

Doctors say that before birth, there’s a normal opening between the heart’s upper chambers that allows blood to bypass the baby’s developing lungs. It typically closes by age two. But for a quarter of people out there, for some reason, that never happens.

Kimmelstiel says that a small hole can allow a clot to pass through, interrupting blood flow to the brain and causing a stroke.

“Occasionally, this is a problem, and it’s a large number every year,” Kimmelstiel said.

To prevent another stroke, doctors recommended closing Chris Jacquith’s PFO. Typically, there are two FDA-approved devices for that. But Jacquith was offered the chance to become the first patient in the world to receive a new device currently in clinical trial.

The device covers the hole with two discs that become part of the heart tissue over time.

“This disc of it, if you will, would be on this side. The bigger disc would be on this side, and it would straddle the septum, and then tissue would grow around it,” Kimmelstiel said.

Imaging shows the device completely stops blood flow through the opening.

“And this is after I’ve closed it, you don’t see any more flow across it,” Kimmelstiel said.

Kimmelstiel says the major benefit of this new tool is that doctors can safely access that part of the heart again if another procedure is needed.

“We can go up with a catheter across the device without ruining the integrity of that device. This is a device that is resealable on its own because of the inherent properties of the material that’s used,” Kimmelstiel said.

Jacquith volunteered to be the first person to get it.

“I think you get the added benefit of one extra resource and eyes being on you from some really smart people, and two, potentially helping other people that might go through a similar thing later on. So that’s why it kind of felt like a no-brainer to me,” said Jacquith.

Months later, Jacquith is back on the treadmill training for his comeback in April.

“I’ve been just really fortunate and blessed,” Jacquith said.

Jacquith has been in physical therapy since his stroke. He’s working on his coordination and balance and making major improvements.

His marathon run will be for the Tufts team for stroke research. He says he’s trying to give back for all he was given.

As for the device that helped him, Dr. Kimmelstiel says he’s aiming for 15 patients before he presents his data to the FDA.

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By Adrianna Hargrove

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    GREENSBORO, North Carolina (WXII) — A viral video out of Greensboro, just 25 seconds long, is now drawing national attention. Both the city’s police chief and the man who was arrested are responding.

Nathaniel Williams said not only was he hit in the back of the head by an officer this week, but he also claims he also wrongly targeted. GPD police Chief John Thompson said the arrest was justified and that Williams was not hit in the back of the head.

According to the news release, officers spotted Nathaniel Williams while patrolling the area near Studio Six on Veasley Street when they saw that Williams was in a car in a parking lot.

“That hotel, Studio Six, is really a significant area of concern and has been for several months due to crime issues in that area,” Thompson said.

Williams said officers approached him.

“Yeah, they came up to me asking me, ‘How you doing? Can we talk to you?'” Williams said. “I said, ‘Talk to me about what?’ They said, ‘We just want to have a conversation.’ I said, ‘What conversation?’ Like, why me out of everybody outside?’ I’m not the only person in a car that’s parked sitting here.”

According to the news release, officers saw marijuana in Williams’s lap, but Williams denies it. Williams also denies swallowing drugs during the incident.

Thompson says Williams was combative when ordered to get out of the car and resisted arrest.

A 25-second video taken by a witness was posted online showing part of the arrest, where Williams is repeatedly hit by an officer.

“I was the one getting hit, and they had my jacket on top of my head, that’s why I couldn’t breathe,” Williams said.

Thompson said during a press conference about the incident, “The officer was not striking Mr. Williams in the head.”

Thompson further explains that the move shown in the video of the officer striking Williams was a “suprascapular strike” to Williams’ shoulder area after he assaulted one of the officers.

“In this particular case, from what I have seen, it was used to stun that nerve. What you do is when you stun that nerve, it kind of incapacitates that arm temporarily, allowing officers to gain control of that arm,” Thompson said.

Thompson said that method is taught in basic law enforcement training. Thompson also says he will file a petition for the court to make the body cam footage public.

GPD’s Standards Division Investigation is underway.

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By Jordan Cioppa

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    PITTSBURGH (WTAE) — A South Side woman is worried a trick-or-treater may have accidentally gone home with her diamond engagement ring on Halloween night.

“We searched everywhere, we searched in the basket of candy, the ring was nowhere to be found. And so, my only thought is that it went into one of the kids trick-or-treat bags,” Maddie Carver told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4.

Carver and her husband, Ryan Quiggle, handed out candy at their home on Larkins Way near S. 27th Street. They signed up to be on the South Side Kids Halloween route. She guessed around 100 trick-or-treaters stopped by that night.

“I was picking up big piles of candy out of our candy basket and throwing it kind of playfully into the kids trick-or-treat bags because they were so cute. We were having so much fun,” said Carver, who suspects the ring was fitting loose because of the cold weather.

The fun ended in tears for Carver at the realization that the ring was gone. Up until last Friday, it’s been sitting on her finger since December 2011, when she got engaged to her husband.

“I spent years and years on dating apps trying to find the love of my life and finally did and he proposed, and it was one of the best days of my whole life,” Carver said. “And you know that ring has so much sentimental value, even more than the monetary value; the sentimental value is worth more than anything.”

The couple has posted on Facebook, contacted police, and even called local schools, but so far, no luck.

They are offering a monetary award for the ring’s safe return.

“If you were trick-or-treating by our house that night, please check your kids’ bags. I would be so, so grateful. It would make my whole year,” Carver said.

Carver can be reached at 724-612-3212 or Maddcar@icloud.com. Quiggle can be reached at 585-443-5819 or rgquigg25@gmail.com.

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    WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (WPBF) — Ryan Routh, the man found guilty in September of attempting to assassinate President Trump, says he never intended to pull the trigger.

In a series of five letters written from jail and sent to his son and daughter, Routh claims he could have shot Trump, but at the last minute, could not go through with his plan.

“The victim there in plain sight in range, and the trigger was not pulled, then there is your proof of lack of intent,” Routh wrote as part of his notes to tell the jury.

Routh represented himself during his federal trial and was convicted in September of attempted assassination and related firearms charges.

Prosecutors said he spent nearly 12 hours hidden in a sniper’s nest near the 6th hole of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, armed with a loaded semi-automatic rifle and a bullet in the chamber.

They told jurors that if not for an alert Secret Service agent spying Routh’s face through the bushes and firing at him, Routh could have killed Trump.

In his letters, Routh insists the case hinges on what was in his mind.

“The entirety of this case hinges on what was in the defendant’s head, what was his overall intent, his goal, his thought process?” he wrote.

He argued that he had a clear shot of Trump while Trump was still on the 5th hole, but when it came down to it, did not have it in him to go through with it.

The letters include Routh’s complete opening and closing statements from court — arguments the jury never heard in full because Judge Aileen Cannon cut him off after several minutes, calling his remarks irrelevant and rambling.

Routh’s daughter, Sara Routh, said she believes her father never meant to kill the former president. “He never aimed it at the president. That’s what I’m saying. He wasn’t actually going to go through with it,” she told WPBF 25 News Investigative Reporter Terri Parker.

In other passages, Routh wrote about his efforts to help Ukraine, donate to those in need, and his contempt for Trump.

What he did not explain was why he was hidden for hours with a rifle aimed through a fence if he had no intention to shoot.

In a handwritten update to his closing arguments that he mailed to Parker, Routh apologized to his children and to what he called “mankind.”

He wrote, “I must apologize to mankind and my fellowman for being a constant failure. I am sorry. I will beg of Cannon for an assisted suicide state as I cannot bear what our America has become.”

Routh is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 18 and faces life in prison. He is currently searching for an attorney to handle his appeal.

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