Parker, left, 16, chases after his new friend Miles, 2, in Atlantic City’s new dog park Thursday at Altman Park in the Inlet neighborhood.

A Rock Island County jury deliberated for about an hour and 15 minutes Friday before returning a verdict of guilty against Derrick B. Nephew in the May 2024 shooting death of Omari Braxton.

Police in Bartow, Florida, say they arrested two middle school girls Tuesday who brought butcher knives and a pizza cutter to school and told detectives that they had been planning ...