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Scene of the crash.Photo: Nelvin C Cepeda/Shutterstock A man has been charged with organizing a smuggling event at the beginning of March that ended up leading to the deaths of 13 people from Mexico and Guatemala. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of CaliforniaannouncedTuesday that Jose Cruz Noguez was charged in federal court with conspiracy to bring aliens to the United States outside a port of entry causing serious bodily injury/placing a life in jeopardy, and bringing in aliens without presentation for financial gain....

Breasia Terrell; Henry Earl Dinkins.Photo:Iowa Amber Alert (2) Iowa Amber Alert (2) An Iowa man was convicted Friday of abducting and killing a 10-year-old girl who was missing for eight months before her remains were found in a pond, according to multiple news reports. Henry Earl Dinkins, 51, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and kidnapping in the death of 10-year-old Breasia Terrell, according to theAssociated Press, theQuad-City Times,and theClinton Herald....

Photo: GettyA 48-year-old man died this week when his parachute failed during a BASE jump from a San Diego high-rise.The man jumped from Palisade UTC, a 23-story apartment building in University City, on Tuesday night, according to theSan Diego Union-Tribune.Police told theAssociated Pressthey are unsure whether the parachute malfunctioned or if the height of the building was not sufficient enough for it to work correctly. He has not yet been publicly identified....

Alost locket containing the ashes of a Massachusetts boy’s motherwas found on Thursday thanks to a man with a metal detector. Connor Datri, 10, of Plymouth, has worn the necklace daily to feel close to his mother, Lynelle Leonard, who died in a car crash three years ago, FOX affiliateWFXTpreviously reported. The necklace carried a heart-shaped locket that featured an engraving of Leonard’s fingerprint and initials. Melissa Moriarty, Connor’s grandmother, said that Connor was at West Elementary School’s soccer field where he lost the locket, per CBS affiliateWBZ....

Felix Louis-Njai interviewed for a Oregon Public Broadcasting video.Photo:Oregon Public Broadcasting/Youtube Oregon Public Broadcasting/Youtube Friends are remembering a man whowent missing last week following an apparent shark attacknear Point Reyes National Seashore in California. N’jai was in the water near Wildcat Beach last week while celebrating a wedding, according to his friends. The National Park Service has since confirmed in a release that he was reported missing Sunday morning at 10:20 a....

Linda Stoltzfoos.Photo: East Lampeter Township Police The man accused of killing Amish teenagerLinda Stoltzfoostoday pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 35 to 71 years behind Pennsylvania prison bars. PEOPLE confirms Justo Smoker, 35, formally entered the guilty plea Friday. Smoker also entered guilty pleas to kidnapping, abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, and possession of an instrument of crime charges. Stoltzfoos, 18, disappeared on June 21, 2020, when she was last seen heading home after church to change into something else for a youth group meeting....

Kendrell Lyles and Mulaysia Booker.Photo:Collin County Jail via AP; Facebook Collin County Jail via AP; Facebook As a result of the plea deal with prosecutors, Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 37, will be sentenced to 48 years in prison for killing Booker, 23, in Dallas, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said. Just before the start of Lyles’s murder trial on Monday, he entered into the plea agreement with prosecutors and pleaded guilty, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said....

Photo: Dominique Apollon A 45-year-old man is rejoicing after finally finding an adhesive bandage that matches his skin tone. Dominique Apollon, who is African American, shared his powerful reaction on Twitter writing, “It’s taken me 45 trips around the sun, but for the first time in my life I know what it feels like to have a ‘band-aid’ in my own skin tone.” Along with the tweet, Apollon shared photos of the bandage against his skin and at first glance, it’s almost invisible....

Bampumim Teixeira, the man convicted ofkilling two Boston doctors, has been sentenced to life in prison. Judge Mitchell Kaplan imposed two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole on Teixeira on Friday at Suffolk Superior Court shortly after the 33-year-old was found guilty of the May 2017 murders of Dr. Lina Bolanos and Dr. Richard Field,according to theBoston Globe. During the proceedings, the judge said Teixeira, who was watching his sentencing from another room via video link, “made it quite clear that he did not wish to be in this courtroom for these proceedings and that he would not conduct himself in the manner necessary to permit him to be present,” the newspaper reported....

Victor Hugo Cuevas.Photo: HPD A Houston man is wanted after his pet tiger was spotted outside in a city neighborhood. Victor Hugo Cuevas, 26, has been charged with felony evading arrest after he allegedly fled Houston Police Department patrol officers Monday morning, police said in a Twitterstatement. Neighbors first noticed thetiger roaming around a front yardon Sunday. “I believe the NextDoor app notice went out, and an off-duty deputy came to the house and confronted the owner of the tiger,” HPD Commander Ron Borza said in apress conferenceearlier on Monday....

She has a hit show, ahappy marriage to Taylor Goldsmithandnew music, so it’s no surprise thatMandy Mooreis feeling on top of the world.“I feel so grateful for where I am in my life personally and I feel very fulfilled and very satisfied,” theThis Is Usstartells PEOPLE. “[In our 20s] we all have to suffer through bouts of self-doubts and self-criticism. But none of that matters. All you’re doing is wasting time and energy when you could be pouring it into something way more productive....

Mandy Moore is finally ready to show off her dream house! TheThis Is Usstar reveals the Pasadena home she’s beenpainstakingly renovating(anddocumenting on Instagram) for a year in the July issue ofArchitectural Digest.She bought the house in January 2017for a reported $2.56 million, according theLA Times. “This house signifies the next chapter of my life—as an adult, a woman, and a performer. I was able to pour all of who I am into making this place,” she tells the magazine of the 1950s, modernist abode shemoved into in Januarywithfiance Taylor Goldsmith....

Photo: Mariah Carey/Twitter 01of 13 Mariah Carey Mariah Carey/Twitter 02of 13Robert Downey Jr.Jason Momoa/Instagram"Stark is finally king," the actor wrote onFacebooknext to this photo of himself sitting on the coveted throne. The photo went viral thanks to Stark fans from both the Marvel Universe and the world of Westeros. 02of 13 Robert Downey Jr. Jason Momoa/Instagram “Stark is finally king,” the actor wrote onFacebooknext to this photo of himself sitting on the coveted throne....