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Uvalde school police chief fired for response to shooting
Uvalde school police chief fired for response to shooting

The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arrendondo on Wednesday, making him the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant and fumbled response by law enforcement at Robb Elementary School as a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom. More

August 24, 2022

Texas murder trial in pro cyclist’s killing may be delayed
Texas murder trial in pro cyclist’s killing may be delayed

Kaitlin Armstrong's attorneys pressed her right for a speedy trial when she pleaded not guilty plea to murder in July, and jury selection was scheduled to start Oct. 19. But in a hearing with defense lawyers and prosecutors, Judge Brenda Kennedy called that start date “highly unlikely.” More

August 24, 2022

Mario Batali settles 2 lawsuits alleging sexual assault
Mario Batali settles 2 lawsuits alleging sexual assault

Mario Batali has agreed to settle two Massachusetts lawsuits that accused the celebrity chef of sexual assault. The decision to settle the cases comes more than two months after the former Food Network personality was cleared of a criminal charge stemming from accusations by one of the women, who prosecutors alleged aggressively kissed and groped her while taking a selfie at a downtown Boston bar in 2017. More

August 24, 2022

Psychologist: School shooter didn’t get consistent treatment
Psychologist: School shooter didn’t get consistent treatment

A psychologist who treated Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz when he was 8 years old testified Wednesday that Cruz was a “peculiar child” who had many behavioral and developmental issues but his widowed mother seemed overwhelmed and wasn’t consistent in her discipline or in getting him treatment. More

August 24, 2022

Testimony: Florida school shooter was intellectually slow
Testimony: Florida school shooter was intellectually slow

By TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz as a toddler was intellectually and physically behind other children, which caused him to isolate himself and hit and bite to get what he wanted, a daycare administrator and former neighbor testified Tuesday at his penalty trial for mass […] More

August 23, 2022

Experts: Force appears excessive in Arkansas beating video
Experts: Force appears excessive in Arkansas beating video

A bystander's video of 27-year-old Randal Worcester’s arrest on Sunday in the small town of Mulberry sparked outrage after it was posted online. All three officers were later suspended, and state and federal authorities have opened criminal investigations into their actions. More

August 23, 2022

Showdown over evidence, leaks looming in Alex Murdaugh case
Showdown over evidence, leaks looming in Alex Murdaugh case

defense lawyers said the secrecy rules as Alex Murdaugh awaits a murder trial in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son are hypocritical because prosecutors are leaking evidence to media outlets, including a video the leaker said was taken not long before the killings. More

August 23, 2022

2 men guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
2 men guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

A jury convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The jury also found Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a bridge and stymie police if the kidnapping could be pulled off at Whitmer’s vacation home. More

August 23, 2022

Trump seeks special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents
Trump seeks special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to halt the FBI's review of documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records. More

August 22, 2022

Board: SD Gov. Kristi Noem may have ‘engaged in misconduct’
Board: SD Gov. Kristi Noem may have ‘engaged in misconduct’

A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license, and it referred a separate complaint over her state airplane use to the state's attorney general for investigation. More

August 22, 2022

Judge rules against Ben & Jerry’s in fight over Israel sales
Judge rules against Ben & Jerry’s in fight over Israel sales

A federal judge rejected a request by Ben & Jerry’s to block a plan by its corporate parent to allow its products to be sold in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank against the wishes of the Vermont ice cream maker's independent board of directors. More

August 22, 2022

Man charged in Bulger slaying to stay locked up until trial
Man charged in Bulger slaying to stay locked up until trial

A man charged in the prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger will remain behind bars while he awaits trial. Sean McKinnon, 36, was on federal supervised release when he was arrested in Florida on charges including conspiracy to commit first degree murder. More

August 22, 2022

Rapper Fetty Wap pleads guilty to conspiracy drug charge
Rapper Fetty Wap pleads guilty to conspiracy drug charge

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Rapper Fetty Wap pleaded guilty Monday to a conspiracy drug charge that carries a mandatory five-year prison sentence. The plea in Central Islip on Long Island came before U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Locke, who had revoked his bond and sent him to jail two weeks ago. No sentencing date was […] More

August 22, 2022

Court puts on hold Graham’s testimony in Ga. election probe
Court puts on hold Graham’s testimony in Ga. election probe

A federal appeals court on Sunday agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court’s order requiring that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia. More

August 22, 2022

Jury gets case of 2 men charged in Gov. Whitmer plot
Jury gets case of 2 men charged in Gov. Whitmer plot

Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan's governor wanted to grab Gretchen Whitmer and hang her, prosecutors said during a stark closing argument Monday as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to trigger a revolution in 2020. More

August 22, 2022