Cedar Rapids, IA (AP) A teenage boy charged with first-degree murder in the October slashing deaths of his parents in Cedar Rapids had pleaded not guilty. The Gazette reports that 17-year-old Ethan Alexander Orton entered the pleas in court documents filed Monday. Orton was charged after police called to his home around 2 a.m. Oct. 14 found him outside the home covered in blood. Police say he told officers he had killed his mother and father, and the officers found the bodies of 42-year-old Casey Orton and 41-year-old Misty Scott Slade inside. The teen reportedly told officers he killed his parents to "take charge of his life."
Thomas (Alden) Norton passed away peacefully on Nov. 28, 2021, at the Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Martha’s Vineyard, at the age of 95. Born in Tisbury on August 8, 1926, the eldest of three children of Carlton Ellery Norton and Hannah Irene Heikel, Alden grew up and spent most of his life on […]