Authorities searched Monday for a former NFL player after his 73-year-old mother's body was found near a creek behind her suburban Chicago home.
Relatives told officers Saturday in Maywood that they could not find Sergio Brown, 35, or Myrtle Brown, police said.
Officers found Myrtle Brown's body, and a medical examiner determined Sunday that she had been injured during an assault.
Sergio Brown played defensive back from 2010 through 2016 with the New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo Bills. He graduated from Proviso East High School in Maywood and attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Maywood is about 12 miles (19 kilometers) west of Chicago.
Police said a drive-by shooting left 10 people hurt in Lakeland, FL.
Alec Baldwin was formally charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the filming of "Rust" in 2021.
The U.S. Justice Department has requested documents from Tesla related to its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” features.
The costs of COVID-19 vaccines are expected to skyrocket once the government stops buying them, with Pfizer saying it will charge as much as $130 per dose, and millions of people are expected to be kicked off of Medicaid.
Parts of the south are bracing themselves for an onslaught of wet wintry weather that will last for most of the workweek.
The World Health Organization chief says the coronavirus remains a global health emergency.
A sixth officer involved in the beating death of Tyre Nichols was relieved of duty, according to Karen Rudolph, a spokeswoman for the Memphis Police department.
The same day, U.S. health officials reported the first known case in which the new coronavirus was spread from one person to another in the United States.
While the unit that killed Nichols has been disbanded, advocates say nothing less than a cultural change in law enforcement broadly will provide the safety and liberty Black people demand.
Video showing five Memphis officers beating a Black man was made public Friday, one day after they were charged with murder in the death of Tyre Nichols.
