Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore who’d been missing since May 5, was found Monday after she reactivated her bank card with her new address. According to the New York Daily News, Kidd had changed her cellphone and bank account numbers and pulled down her Facebook page before disappearing earlier this month. Kidd, a…

A California family has been given a one-week extension by a judge to keep their son, 2-year-old Israel Stinson, on life support. Israel was declared brain-dead after an asthma attack left him without oxygen for 40 minutes April 1, CBS News reports. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller in Sacramento, Calif., ruled that the family could…

The two pit bull mixes were supposed to be in the basement, but somehow they escaped and began attacking 3-year-old Janaya Everett. “The baby was laying on the floor bloody with her scalp all messed up, and just a mess … horrible, horrible thing,” Dwyane Harper told ABC 7. Harper said that he was outside…

Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore who has been missing since leaving a May 5 dorm party, is now believed to have taken her Facebook page down and changed her cellphone and bank account numbers before her disappearance, police sources tiold the New York Daily News. “This is not Nayla,” her mother, La Creis…

This situation could easily have gone wrong. An autistic North Carolina teen with a history of violent behavior, and who school officials believed was also suicidal, left his school campus without permission. School officials immediately called the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which dispatched Officer Tim Purdy. When the officer arrived, he found the teen sitting by…

A user with the screen name “Racist McShootFace” has pushed the bidding for the firearm owned by George Zimmerman and used to kill unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., to $65 million, the Daily Mail reports. As news of the auction spread, several people hijacked the auction site posting bids under phony screen names…

Jasmine Warren wasn’t going to let two armed men steal her car. As she walked out of an Atlanta Exxon gas station around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, two men wearing hoodies jumped out and attempted to take he car, but Warren fought back. At one point, one of the men pointed a gun at Warren and…

Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, died Thursday at the age of 116. Jones, who had been ill for 10 days, died at a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she had lived for the last 30 years, the Associated Press reports. Her death leaves Emma Morano, a few months younger…

Some 791 guns were collected over a gun-buyback program in Los Angeles over the weekend, according to the Los Angeles Times. Returns to the program included “364 handguns, 144 shotguns, 237 rifles, 42 assault-style weapons”; four of the firearms submitted didn’t fit into a specific category. A 1911 .45-caliber pistol owned by Sammy Davis Jr.…

Larry Thomas, a 65-year-old Rock Hill, S.C., barber, was arrested and charged after authorities say he refused to cut a black man’s hair and placed his hand on his gun when the customer asked about getting a shave. “He said, ‘I don’t do black hair,’ ” the customer, Arthur Hill, of Fort Mill, S.C., told…