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Artavoius North will be charged in the murder of his 2-year-old son, J'Asiah Mitchell. North had wrongly reported that Mitchell was kidnapped last month. A body found at a garbage collection station in Georgia last month has been positively identified as missing 2-year- old J’Asiah Mitchell, according to the East Point Police Department. Mitchell's father , 23-year-old Artavoius North, will be charged with murder , concealing the death of another and cruelty to children, according to the East Point Police Department. North had reported the child was kidnapped during an armed robbery last month. MORE: Police believe they have found body of missing Georgia 2-year-old, father charged with lying to police A desperate search for the child was launched in the wake of him being reported missing. However, North's story began to change in the hours after his son was reported missing. A day after police announced the child was missing, East Point police announced they were charg...

A Florida mother is going to prison for 14 years for the death of her newborn daughter who was found floating off the Palm Beach County coast five years ago WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A mother who dumped her newborn 's body into the ocean off the Florida coast five years ago pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Arya Singh, 30, also pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse during a Palm Beach County court hearing. She had been facing a second-degree murder charge, which carried a potential life sentence. The infant girl, whose body was found floating off Palm Beach County on June 1, 2018, by an off-duty firefighter, was dubbed “Baby June.” The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office launched a massive search for the mother. Detectives checked more than 600 mothers who had given birth in nearby hospitals, but all still had their babies. The case went cold until last year when detectives ran the baby's DNA through a genetic database that...

National Park Service officials said they found a man dead inside a car after temperatures reached over 100 degrees. Extreme heat is what National Park Service officials assume led to the death of a man inside his car that was in the middle of Death Valley National Park as temperatures soared to over 100 degrees. A maintenance worker found the unidentified 65-year-old man from San Diego on July 3 around 10 a.m., inside his sedan about 30 yards off road from North Highway, park officials said. First responders and a medical coroner declared the man dead at the scene. A view of Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes during sunset at Death Valley National Park, April 23, 2023, in Calif. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images "The initial investigation suggests that heat-related illness may have caused the driver to run off road," the NPS said in a statement. MORE: Heat stroke vs. heat exhaustion: Extreme heat safety tips Investigators said it appeared that the car's tracks ran ...

Nevada State Police say recent DNA testing has enabled the identification of human remains found 45 years ago inside a garment bag in a small town two hours northeast of Reno LAS VEGAS -- In 1978, a garment bag containing a woman's heavily decayed remains was discovered in a remote area of northern Nevada. The case soon went cold — and the victim remained nameless for 45 years. But on Wednesday, Nevada State Police announced that advancements in DNA testing have finally led to an identification. She was Florence Charleston, a Cleveland, Ohio, woman who had moved to Portland, Oregon, shortly before her death. How Charleston wound up dead and buried in a shallow grave 535 miles (860 kilometers) away from her new home is still a mystery. Police said Wednesday in a news release announcing the DNA match that the investigation into her death is ongoing. Charleston relocated to the Pacific Northwest sometime in the early 1970s, police said. By then, she had lost contact with her relatives...

The Portland Police Bureau in Oregon took a strong stance against “online rumors” Sunday, shutting down theories of a serial killer after the deaths of six women. The Portland Police Bureau in Oregon took a strong stance against “online rumors” Sunday, shutting down theories of a potential serial killer after the deaths of six women under the age of 40 within the last three months. The agency publicly condemned the speculation, accusing social media posts and news articles of spreading “anxiety and fear in our community” without being “supported by the facts available at this point.” “While any premature death is concerning…PPB has no reason to believe these six cases are connected,” the law enforcement agency wrote in a press release. Officers with the PPB first found human remains in Multnomah County, Oregon, in February, later determining that the remains belonged to Kristin Smith, 22, who was reported missing on Dec. 22, according to the PPB. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images Smith’s caus...

A man has been arrested after multiple dogs were found dead in a dumpster during a period of several weeks at the end of last year. A man has been arrested after multiple dogs were found dead in a dumpster during a period of several weeks at the end of last year. The series of deaths began on Nov. 15 when animal control officers in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, were alerted to the discovery of three dead pit bulls -- one adult dog and two puppies -- that were found in a dumpster inside a plastic tub that was covered in feces and urine. MORE: Amazon worker found dead in yard after suspected mauling by 2 dogs “The adult female dog was starved and had a broken foot,” Myrtle Beach Police Department said in a statement released to the media. “The two six to eight-week-old puppies were drowned.” The case went unsolved for nearly six weeks until another incident occurred on Dec. 26 when animal control officers were again called to the same dumpster . This time following the discovery of...

A Princeton University student who was found dead on campus this fall died by suicide, according to the prosecutor's office. A Princeton University student who was found dead on the New Jersey campus this fall died by suicide , the prosecutor's office said Wednesday. The body of 20-year-old Misrach Ewunetie was found near university tennis courts on Oct. 20, nearly one week after she went missing. A man walks on campus at Princeton University, Feb. 4, 2020 in Princeton, New Jersey. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images, FILE MORE: Missing Princeton student Misrach Ewunetie found dead, death doesn't appear suspicious An autopsy by the Middlesex Regional Medical Examiner's Office has determined she died from "bupropion, escitalopram and hydroxyzine toxicity" and her death has been ruled a suicide, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said. Bupropion and escitalopram are antidepressants. Hydroxyzine is an antihistamine. "Misrach’s death is an unthinka...