Envy Apartment

A teenager was unable to save her 5-year-old sister from their burning apartment Tuesday night when roaring flames turned the apartment into an inferno, making it impossible to get to the second-floor where the child was watching television, officials said. East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr . "Beau" Clark identified the girl as Treasure Garner, although her family says her last name is Hadley. She died in the fire at the Cedarwood Apartments on Cedarcrest Avenue . The fire started around 7 p.m. and burned for more than three hours, spreading to more than 10 apartments before firefighters could bring it under control. Treasure's 18-year-old sister had earlier helped the child get ready for bed, then turned on a television on the second floor of the apartment for the little girl to watch while the teen went to the first-floor kitchen to prepare dinner, said Brant Thompson, chief deputy of the State Fire Marshal 's Office, according to accounts gathered by the F...

Updated: Jul 18, 2012 - 2:20 PM REDMOND, Washington - Police released a sketch Wednesday afternoon of a man wanted in connection with the rape of a Redmond woman early Tuesday morning . The Redmond Police Department said the attack happened at about 2 a.m. Tuesday at the Shadowbrook Apartments . A woman in her early 30s was studying in her apartment with her sliding glass door open when a man walked in, turned off the lights in her bedroom, held a knife to her throat and raped her. He then ran off, and possibly fled in a vehicle. "We did a K-9 track. It was hot there for a while, and then it went cold, so likely the suspect got in a car and drove away," Redmond police spokesman Jim Bove said. KIRO 7 showed the sketch to some neighbors Wednesday afternoon . "He almost looks like a service person, doesn't he? Like somebody coming in, so you might open the door to him," four- year Shadowbrook resident Alice Glenn said. She said her and her neighbors often l...

LAUDERDALE LAKES -- A woman`s purse containing $600 in cash was stolen early on Wednesday morning from a bedside table in her home in the Wingate Apartments in the 3900 block of Northwest 30th Terrace . The woman told police she left the window open a crack. Police said entry into the apartment apparently was made through that window. The woman said she awakened about 4:30 a.m., noticed the purse was missing and looked out the window to see an unidentified person running away.

LAKEWOOD, Wash. (AP) - A convicted sex offender has been charged in connection with breaking into several apartments while naked south of Tacoma. Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist says Curtis Sell was charged Wednesday with three counts of burglary with sexual motivation in connection with the break-ins and failure to register as a sex offender. Lindquist says police responded to a Lakewood apartment building Aug . 2 where a woman reported that she awoke to a naked man removing the fan from her bedroom window. She told police after she screamed and her boyfriend came in the room, the man ran away. Lindquist says that morning investigators were called to other nearby residences where two other women reported similar stories . In all three instances, Lindquist says, the women positively identified Sell from a photo line-up. Sell remains in jail on $450,000 bail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK (AP) --...