• Missing person found dead in shallow grave days before Christmas in North Texas, police say

  

• Body found in Justice identified as man missing since November

  

• Body of missing 9-year-old California girl Melodee Buzzard found, mother arrested

  

• Hempfield Township raises property taxes for first time since 1990

  

• 2-year-old girl killed in unintentional shooting in Ohio, police say

  

• Driver dies after vehicle crash involving bus in Fraser, police say

  

• Man arrested after allegedly assaulting wife, barricading himself in Grapevine home, police say

  

• Modesto police urge encampments near Tuolumne River to evacuate amid flooding threat