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.
The Powerball jackpot is climbing to an estimated $620 million ahead of Saturday night's drawing.
Hamas says it will not negotiate for the release of any additional hostages until Israel's operation in Gaza ends.
A fatal news helicopter crash in New Jersey has left two people dead.
Israel reportedly delivered an offer with possible terms for a second week-long ceasefire.
Shipping companies are diverting billions of dollars in cargo from the Red Sea after Houthi rebels based in Yemen attacked multiple ships.
A New York judge has ordered that court documents related to a lawsuit from one of the accusers in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case be unsealed.
About 126 people have been killed in a massive earthquake in the northwest region of China.
Indigenous students from any of Wisconsin's 11 tribes will be able to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison for free beginning next fall, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin announced Monday.
In the Red Sea this morning, a U.S. warship, the USS Carney responded to a distress call by a commercial vessel after it came under attack.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection in southern California announced it confiscated thousands of pounds of illegal drugs hidden in a jalapeno paste shipment.
