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Robert Gentile, 81, a reputed mobster, is believed by federal prosecutors to be the last surviving person of interest in the still-unsolved 1990 heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in which thieves stole an estimated $500 million worth of artwork, including works by Rembrandt and Johannes Vermeer.
Erica Gomez, 17, gave birth at her home in El Paso, Texas, to a baby girl who was found dead about 12 hours later, wrapped in a bathrobe inside a storage shed with stab wounds and cuts to her neck and body, resulting in the mother’s arrest, police said.
Jeff Williamson, Orange County, Fla., sheriff’s spokesman, said authorities have detained a 14-year-old boy and started an arson investigation after officers received reports of an explosion in the boys’ bathroom at a high school, prompting staff and students to evacuate.
Carina Driscoll, a former Vermont state legislator and stepdaughter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, has the backing of the Progressive Party for her grass-roots campaign to challenge Democratic Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger.
Ravi Chhatre, head of a National Transportation Safety Board team in Dallas, said the group was gathering information after a suspected natural gas leak caused an explosion at a newly renovated house, killing a 12-year-old girl and injuring four members of her family.
John Hershel Hagood, 60, is accused in the strangulation death of his girlfriend, Betty Patricia Watkins, 71, after Alabama officers found her dead when they responded to a call from a pizza deliveryman about a disturbance at an apartment building.
Levi Dykema, 28, a Vermont firefighter, faces three counts of reckless endangerment after police say he covered the hands of his children, ages 5, 7 and 10, with hand sanitizer and ignited it, telling authorities he was trying to teach them about poor decision-making.
Carlos Guimaraes and Jemima Guimaraes were indicted by a federal grand jury in Houston on kidnapping and conspiracy charges after being accused of helping their grandson from Texas illegally remain in Brazil when his mother purportedly violated a custody order in a divorce case.
Dustin Lockwood, 23, was taken into custody at Fox High School in Arnold, Mo., and charged with possessing a firearm in a school zone after authorities found several weapons in his vehicle when he was picking up his sister.