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Yahoo
13 hours ago
- Yahoo
Orleans mother suspects foul play in daughter's Riverwalk death
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — 20-year-old Jameshia Selders went out in New Orleans with a group of friends but never returned home. According to the Coast Guard, Selders fell into the Mississippi river by the Riverwalk at around 1 a.m. and has not been found since. 'Somebody just help me find my daughter,' Duplessis said. 'It's important to me if I can just get my daughter back with the family and get my daughter a decent burial funeral.'' Two killed in Jefferson Parish car crash Duplessis says that her final conversations with her daughter were normal. Selders even said she would be home that night. Just hours later though, Duplessis received the worst phone call of her life. The coast guard would then spend hours searching but to no avail. 'We had people out here searching with helicopters,' Duplessis said. 'It was late. They tried. We shut down at 3 something in the morning. They said they would come back out in the morning and try to find my daughter. Still not getting any answers.' West Nile Virus detected in New Orleans mosquitoes, city expands control measures According to Duplessis, Selders' friends say that she jumped in. However, Duplessis claims there is more to the story. She believes that her daughter was killed by those she was with. 'My daughter would never throw herself in the river,' Duplessis said. 'My daughter knows how to swim and she's not just going to throw herself in the river. She didn't have any problems.' Duplessis claims that some of Selders' friends have acted suspicious since that night such as deleting social media accounts. 'I mean I got some that deactivated their Instagram page, deactivated their Facebook page,' Duplessis said. 'I mean if you had nothing to do with it, why would you deactivate your information.' As of today, the NOPD has ruled the death a suicide. However, the report for the incident is mother suspects foul play in daughter's Riverwalk death West Nile Virus detected in New Orleans mosquitoes, city expands control measures Two killed in Jefferson Parish car crash Hardline House conservatives swing for fences in asks to Senate GOP on megabill Start times for Men's College World Series revealed Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Body pulled from Mississippi River in St. Paul
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - A body was pulled from the waters of the Mississippi River in St. Paul on Sunday, police say. What we know St. Paul police say they responded around 10:10 a.m. to the report of a body in the waters of the Mississippi near Harriet Island. At the scene, officers spotted the body and called in Ramsey County Water Patrol to assist with recovery. Police say the body of a man was recovered and transported to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner. What we don't know The Ramsey County Medical Examiner will make identification of the body. It's unclear exactly how the man died.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Yahoo
HISTORY: Grant Hardin's 12-day escape joins the state's most infamous escapes
ARKANSAS (KNWA/KFTA) — Grant Hardin's 12-day escape ended just 1.5 miles from prison—joining a list of infamous Arkansas escapes, from violent prison breaks to men who vanished without a trace. A convicted child rapist who escaped from an Arkansas prison in 2022—allegedly using jet skis to flee across the Mississippi River—was captured more than a year later in West Virginia. Samuel Hartman, now 39, had been serving a life sentence since 2013 for raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter. In August 2022, he escaped from a work detail near the East Arkansas Regional Unit at Brickeys. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Hartman's wife, Misty Hartman, and his mother, Linda White, drove up to the field where he was working and opened fire toward officers while Hartman climbed into their truck. The group then fled to the river, where two jet skis were staged. A witness on the Mississippi side reported seeing them cross the river by jet ski. Investigators later found the abandoned watercraft, a phone, and a set of keys at a boat ramp in Tunica County. Hartman remained on the run until late 2023, when he was captured at a motel in Lewisburg, West Virginia. His wife, mother, and White's boyfriend, Rodney Trent, were also arrested. Larry Porter Chism of Forrest City, Arkansas is a former law student and Vietnam veteran who escaped custody twice in 1978. Chism remains a fugitive to this day. During a supervised outing, he staged an armed escape from a Tennessee bowling alley, hijacked a plane to Arkansas, and was recaptured after a shootout, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Weeks later, he broke out of jail again and vanished. In late 1978, Chism escaped from the Lonoke County jail by breaking through an air vent and stealing a guard's vehicle. While his accomplices were caught, he disappeared and spent the next decade living under aliases. Chism resurfaced briefly in 1990 when he was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, prompting him to flee Charlotte, North Carolina. He was last confirmed seen in Atlanta later that year and remains one of the longest-running fugitives in U.S. history. His current status is unknown. Grant Hardin taken into custody, Izard County Sheriff's Office says Joe Hilderbrand's escape from prison in 1960 led to one of the largest manhunts in Arkansas history, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Born in Dover (Pope County), he was convicted in 1958 of robbing a honeymooning couple and sentenced to three years at Cummins Prison Farm. In 1960, he was granted a furlough to visit his ill father but failed to return. Hilderbrand fled into the Ozark Mountains, living off the land and receiving help from family and locals. His case gained wider attention when 18-year-old Frances Standridge, his wife's niece, joined him in hiding. According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, the pair evaded authorities for nine months before being captured in Pope County by a multi-agency task force. He was sent to the Arkansas State Hospital for evaluation but escaped again using bedsheets to climb from a second-story window. He remained at large for over a year before being recaptured in 1962 and paroled in 1964. In 1972, Hilderbrand escaped from the Pope County Jail after being charged with rape, leaving a note promising to return for his hearing, which he did, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The charge was later dropped. Hilderbrand lived the rest of his life in Dover, working as a mechanic. He died in 1998 and is buried in Bradley Cemetery. On the night of Jan. 1, 1979, 10 inmates escaped from the maximum-security East Unit of Cummins Prison after overpowering guards during a televised football game. The incident began when inmates, led by Ronnie Pucilowsky and John Wiggins, seized control of the unit and freed others, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Despite a rapid and armed response by prison officials, all escapees were recaptured within 15 hours, some suffering frostbite. According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, this breakout prompted reforms, including improved fencing, guard training and creation of an internal affairs unit. On Labor Day, Sept. 2, 1940, thirty-six inmates escaped from Cummins Prison in what remains Arkansas's largest prison break, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The escape began when armed trusties and other inmates disarmed guards in a field, killed a trusty, and fled, some robbing and kidnapping along the way. Several escapees were killed in shootouts or recaptured within days, while others fled as far as California and Texas. Four were executed in Louisiana for murdering a deputy during their flight. By May 1941, all escapees had been accounted for. According to the Arkansas Department of Corrections website, two inmates are currently on the loose following Hardin's capture on June 6: Hugo Campagne, 59, ADC# 116811 Escaped March 3, 2001. Convicted of manufacturing, delivery and/or possession of controlled substances. Billy Eaton ADC, 97 #060320 Escaped July 26, 1969. Convicted of aggravated assault. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Bloomberg
4 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
A Fed Official Goes Hunting for Inflation Clues in the Heartland
On a hot, sunny afternoon in early June, Austan Goolsbee traded a desk in his bookshelf-lined office at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for a cramped brick booth on a small island in the middle of the Mississippi River. On the border of Illinois and Iowa, with a black lever in each hand, Goolsbee carefully closed two miter gates at Locks and Dam 15, allowing a chemical barge to sail on to the next part of the river. He was there to tour the facility and meet with local business leaders and farmers, hoping to gain a better understanding of how his region's economy — the most exposed to tariffs among the Fed's 12 districts — is coping with the Trump administration's ever-changing trade policies.
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
What's causing hazy St. Louis-area skylines?
ST. LOUIS – Over the next few days, you may notice some hazier skies across the St. Louis region. And there's a scientific reason for that. Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada is drifting south and settling high in the atmosphere, creating hazy conditions for many Midwestern U.S. states. Around St. Louis, the smoke began to move in Friday afternoon. What started as a day of mostly clear blue skies became increasingly muted by sunset. The next few days could follow similar patterns. The National Weather Service says smoke concentrations will likely remain low on Saturday but could linger into Sunday evening or Monday morning in St. Louis, depending on how an ongoing jet stream behaves. So far this weekend, higher concentrations of smoke have stayed north or moved east of the St. Louis metro. The smoke stems from more than 160 wildfires burning across Canada, many of them classified as out of control. As the fires intensify, a jet stream brings heavy winds that help carry the smoke from northern forests across the border and as far south as the Mississippi River Valley. Fortunately, most of the smoke in the St. Louis region is expected to stay high in the atmosphere, meaning it's unlikely to cause major issues to air quality or visibility. Still, there's a chance for hazy skylines over the next few days, especially during sunrise and sunset hours. While the wildfire smoke impacts may be mild locally, the broader situation is more serious. Canada has declared a state of emergency in several provinces and has called in military assistance with long-range impacts on air quality still unfolding. Air quality forecasts for St. Louis and other parts of the United States can be found at a resource spearheaded by the Environmental Protection Agency. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
