By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Family members from three of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s 17 victims gave heartrending testimony Monday about how their 2018 deaths at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have affected their lives, detailing lost loves, lost moments and even fading memories. The sister of student […] More
August 1, 2022
Corrections officer Alan Jay Hershberger has died after being attacked by inmate Gregory Thompson at the Davis Correctional Facility Oklahoma. More
August 1, 2022
West Virginia cities and counties reached a $400 million tentative settlement with three major U.S. drug distributors: AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. More
August 1, 2022
52-year-old Minnesota man Nicolae Miu is charged with killing a teenager and stabbing four other people in a dispute that allegedly began with a lost cellphone during a weekend tubing excursion on a western Wisconsin river. Investigators said Miu attacked the group after people accused him of approaching children in the water. Miu told investigators he had acted in self-defense. More
August 1, 2022
Yaser Said, who was convicted of killing 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said on New Year’s Day in 2008. More
August 1, 2022
An Iowa-based youth basketball league agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by former players whose coach, Greg Stephen, secretly recorded them undressing or obtained nude photos of them and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence for sexual exploitation of minors. More
August 1, 2022
Fabian Gonzales was convicted in the 2016 death of Albuquerque girl Victoria Martens, who was strangled, dismembered and set on fire in the bathtub of her mother’s apartment on her 10th birthday. The jury deliberated less than four hours before returning with guilty verdicts on all charges: reckless child abuse resulting in death, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to tamper with evidence. More
August 1, 2022
A retired British geologist jailed in Iraq for antiquities smuggling has been freed and left the country. Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced in June to 15 years in an Iraqi prison. A Baghdad appeals court overturned the conviction and last week ordered his release. More
August 1, 2022
The parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim live with a complex form of post-traumatic stress disorder and a constant fear that followers of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will kill them. More
August 1, 2022
Newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the Philippines has no plan to rejoin the International Criminal Court. Former President Rodrigo Duterte withdrew the Philippines from The Hague-based court in 2019 in a move rights activists said was an attempt to evade accountability and prevent an international probe into thousands of killings in his campaign against illegal drugs. More
August 1, 2022
The WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist is to return to court on Tuesday, a month after the beginning of the trial in which she could face 10 years in prison if convicted. More
August 1, 2022
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was suspended without pay for six games Monday for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct made against him by two dozen women in Texas. More
August 1, 2022
A former chiropractor convicted of killing four people in a small North Dakota town and sentenced to life behind bars has died in prison. More
August 1, 2022
Thirty-seven years later, authorities are still trying to identify the remains of some of their victims. More
August 1, 2022
A Maryland woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of her newborn baby. More
August 1, 2022
A university instructor in Georgia has been charged with killing an 18-year-old student who was fatally shot while sitting in a car. More
August 1, 2022
The parents of a 3-year-old girl who was found wandering naked in Vero Beach have been arrested and charged with child neglect. More
August 1, 2022
Since most of the worst U.S. mass shooters were killed by themselves or police during or immediately after their attack, it is rare for anyone outside government to see such surveillance videos or police and autopsy photos. More
August 1, 2022
Alabama’s prison system said Friday that the execution of an Alabama inmate was delayed because of the time it took to establish an intravenous line to the inmate. More
July 29, 2022
Two Americans captured while fighting with the Ukrainian Army apparently have been sent to a prison where they are spending all their time together, the family of one of the men said. More
July 29, 2022
By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A once-prominent neurologist was found guilty Friday on charges of sexually abusing patients while treating them with pain medications. A New York City jury reached the verdict after deliberating for about three days at the trial of Dr. Ricardo Cruciani. Cruciani, 68, was convicted of five […] More
July 29, 2022
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled in the case of a Wichita police officer whose shots at a charging dog wounded a 9-year-old girl. The justices ordered a trial in Sedgwick County District Court for former Officer Dexter Betts on a felony reckless aggravated battery charge. More
July 29, 2022
A Las Vegas man pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of helping arrange the 2018 kidnapping and murder of a Vermont man that grew out of a financial dispute .Berk Eratay, 35, is the third of four men to be arraigned in the crime. More
July 29, 2022
A group of lawyers said Friday that the alleged assassin of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was one of many victims of the Unification Church, which has long cultivated ties with high-level Japanese politicians. More
July 29, 2022
Will Smith has again apologized to Chris Rock for slapping him during the Oscar telecast in a new video, saying that his behavior was “unacceptable” and that he had reached out to the comedian to discuss the incident but was told Rock wasn't ready. More
July 29, 2022
Prosecutors in Spain said they would ask a court to sentence Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison, if she is convicted in her expected trial for alleged tax fraud. More
July 29, 2022
Investigators identified 15-year-old Teagan Pixley-Johnson of Fort Collins as the suspect. Pixley-Johnson and the victim know each other, according to the sheriff's office. More
July 29, 2022
Police investigating two brothers for a killing in South Carolina have found videos of them and others beating up at least five people at homeless camps in Greenville. More
July 29, 2022
Tou Thao, who held back concerned bystanders as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck, got 3 1/2 years. J. Alexander Kueng, who pinned Floyd's back, got three. And Thomas Lane, who held Floyd's feet and asked twice about rolling the Black man on his side, got 2 1/2. For some Floyd family members and activists, the penalties were too small — and a bitter reminder of a justice system they say does not treat all people equally. More
July 29, 2022
The case against Letecia Stauch, the Colorado woman accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, has hit another roadblock. More
July 29, 2022
