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Photo: Sophia Germer/AP/Shutterstock Five months after a New Orleans shooting killed 12-year-old girl Todriana Peters, three young men have pleaded guilty to charges associated with her death. According toThe Times-Picayune, Todriana’s parents were present in the courtroom Wednesday when Pernell Young Jr., Tyrese Riley and Marcus Venible admitted to playing roles in the fatal shooting. While Todriana was outside the party charging her phone in a car, a group of men opened fire in her direction, striking her and two others....

Three staff members at a residential facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan, have been charged after a16-year-old boy was restrained and later went into cardiac arrest and diedlast year. Michael Mosley, 47, Zachary Solis, 28, and Heather McLogan, 48, werecharged with involuntary manslaughter, CNN reported, while Mosley and Solis also face two counts of second-degree child abuse. McLogan, meanwhile, faces one charge of second-degree child abuse. According to the lawsuit, staff members of the facility — which provides behavioral health services to teens — allegedly performed an “improper restraint” on Fredericks after he allegedly threw a sandwich at someone....

Photo: Collierville Schools (2), GoFundMe The first shooting took place around 6 p.m. Sunday when 10-year-old Jadon Knox, a fourth grader at Aspire Hanley Elementary School, was killed playing outside at his friend’s home in Orange Mound. The following day, Ashlynn Denaé Luckett, 6, and her uncle Lequan Dequez Boyd, 16, were shot inside a home in Hickory Hill. Luckett, a first-year student at Sycamore Elementary, died on Tuesday of her injuries....

Photo: Siepmann/imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock Four women have been convicted for entering a national wildlife refuge in Arizona, which is located along the Mexico border, without a permit during their attempt to leave food and water formigrants, according to multiple outlets. On Friday, a federal judge found Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick guilty of breaking federal law as they attempted toprovide aid for border crossers, theAssociated Pressreported. This is the first conviction against humanitarian aid volunteers in a decade, the AP noted....

Photo: Facebook “Me OK,” said the boy, Hunter Payton, as he picked himself up and took several steps, according to the foster parent. But after the boy collapsed moments later and went into seizures, then died two days later, authorities diagnosed injuries that they allege pointed toward a homicide, and Embry-Martin was charged with murder. “Death. It came all too soon for Hunter Payton,” Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Teresa Logsdon said as Embry-Martin’s case went to trial Wednesday in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, reports theCourier Journal....

Photo: Chambers Family Neither convicted nor cleared, the suspect, Quinton Tellis, now sits in jail awaiting trial for an unrelated murder in neighboring Louisiana. Tellis has pleaded not guilty to Hsiao’s murder, just as he and his defense attorney maintained his innocence through the two Chambers trials. But while Chambers’ family hopes that a third trial in the Chambers case may yet deliver the justice they seek, the Mississippi prosecutor, John Champion, tells PEOPLE that he’s not rushing forward....

“I’m gonna bring his8 Mileto television,” he revealed, adding that Eminem, 50, is on board to assist with the show’s production. “It’s gonna be big. I’m working. I ain’t got no duds. I’m batting 100,” the 47-year-old rapper said after being asked about the show. “I think it should be there for his legacy because it’s important to me that they understand it.” Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories....

More than 50,000 pounds of sausage typically used to make charcuterie boards have been recalled over possible listeria contamination. Daniele International LLC, based in Mapleville, Rhode Island,issued the recallfor 52,914 pounds of the ready-to-eat sausage as they “may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes”, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The meats in question were made between May 23, 2022, and Nov. 25, 2022, and sent to retail stores around the nation between Dec....

The Grand Canyon.Photo:Getty Getty A 57-year-old woman has died while hiking the Grand Canyon in triple-digit temperatures. The Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of a distressed day hiker inTuweep— a remote, hard-to-reach area of the Grand Canyon National Park — on Sunday at approximately 6:30 p.m., according to a National Park Servicenews release. A ranger responded to the report and arrived on the scene on July 3 at 1 a....

Grand Canyon.Photo:Getty Getty An Arizona man had died whileattempting to hike a portion of the Grand Canyon, making him the 10th person to die at the national park this year. James Handschy, 65, of Oracle, “was attempting to hike from the South Rim to the river and back” when he wasreported unresponsiveon Thursday, according to a news release from the National Park Service. A personal locator beacon altered authorities to the emergency on the Bright Angel Trail around 1:30 p....

Seven people were injured after a large tree branch broke and fell on guests at theSan Antonio Zoothis week. The branch fell “unexpectedly” on Wednesday, which causedzoo first responders, as well as local emergency crews on-site, to treat the injuredwithin minutes, President and CEO of the San Antonio Zoo Tim Morrow said in a statement. “We are working with our internal and external teams to investigate the cause of the breakage to prevent this unusual event from happening again,” Morrow said....

7-Eleven celebrates Slurpee Day 2023 with three free drinks.Photo:7-Eleven7-Elevenis making it easy to chill out this July.The chain’s annual 7-Eleven Day (on 7/11, of course) is always celebrated with one free Slurpee — but this year, customers have three different opportunities to snag a giveaway.All those who come to7-Eleven, Stripes or Speedway stores on July 11 can grab a free small Slurpee, as per the usual7-Eleven Daypromo. But the deals don’t stop there....

Caden McWilliams.Photo: Facebook On Dec. 23, Caden McWilliams’ body was found in a dog crate filled with concrete in his mother’s Denver storage unit. His mother, Elisha Pankey, turned herself in to authorities following this discovery. She has been charged with child abuse resulting in death as well as abuse of a corpse. On Tuesday, the Denver County District Attorney’s Office released sixteen pages of court documents that reveal the alleged abuse Caden endured before he died — months before his body was found....