By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge who sentenced white former Officer Kim Potter on Friday to two years in prison for killing Black motorist Daunte Wright cited the difficult job that police face — and Potter’s remorse — as justification for giving her a light sentence. Hennepin County District […] More
February 18, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — There’s no evidence that Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio acted illegally or had reason to believe one of its rides, the world’s second-tallest roller coaster, was unsafe before an object flew off it last year and struck a woman in the head, the state concluded in an investigation released Friday. […] More
February 18, 2022
A former Louisiana teacher who pleaded guilty to tainting cupcakes with her ex-husband's bodily fluids and feeding them to school children was sentenced Friday to 41 years in prison. More
February 18, 2022
Defense attorneys called a single witness: a neighbor who suggested that a man they reported to police in 2019 was likely white. More
February 18, 2022
A man accused of driving his son to and from a Dallas-area gas station convenience store where the 14-year-old is accused of fatally shooting three teens and wounding a fourth has been indicted on a capital murder charge. A Dallas County grand jury on Thursday indicted Richard Acosta Jr., 33, on a charge of capital murder of multiple people. He remained jailed Friday on $3 million bond. More
February 18, 2022
The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. More
February 18, 2022
A former college basketball star charged with killing his son was granted bond Wednesday morning. More
February 18, 2022
Austin Police Association President Ken Cassidy confirmed 19 officers are facing charges but did not have details. More
February 18, 2022
Melissa Blair is charged with 18 counts of aggravated statutory rape, four counts of human trafficking by patronizing prostitution and one count of solicitation of a minor. More
February 18, 2022
The trial included testimony from five major league players who said they received oxycodone pills from Kay at various times from 2017-19. More
February 18, 2022
William Husel is accused of ordering excessive painkillers for patients in the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System. More
February 18, 2022
Deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Wayne Lotz, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on charges of first-degree murder, tampering with evidence and tampering with a deceased human body. More
February 17, 2022
A sheriff's office in South Florida has named a deceased deputy as the only probable suspect in the sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1983. Now, cold-case detectives believe he could be responsible for other sexual assault cases across the state. Lora Ann Huizar, 11, was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered by former St. Lucie County Sheriff Deputy James Howard Harrison. More
February 17, 2022
The Vatican's big fraud and extortion trial resumes Friday after exposing some unseemly realities of how the Holy See operates, with a new spy story taking center stage that is more befitting of a 007 thriller than the inner workings of a papacy. More
February 17, 2022
The Rev. Al Sharpton told the hundreds gathered Thursday for the funeral for Amir Locke that the 22-year-old Black man who was shot by Minneapolis police as they served a no-knock search warrant had done nothing wrong. More
February 17, 2022
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s killing testified Thursday that he didn’t act on another officer’s suggestion to roll Floyd on his side after he stopped breathing, didn’t ask Officer Derek Chauvin to check for a neck pulse and […] More
February 17, 2022
The facility is expected to house up to 124 people who are under provisional arrest and to have 117 places for individuals held in pre-trial detention. More
February 17, 2022
The man, who is not identified in court papers, got taken for well over $500,000, the latest victim in a growing trend known as romance fraud. More
February 17, 2022
The suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright will be sentenced Friday for manslaughter. More
February 17, 2022
Those findings included bones, a pair of pants that may be women's sizing and style, as well as other clothing scraps and trash. More
February 17, 2022
Retired police captain Curtis Reeves shot and killed Chad Oulson during an argument over cell phone usage in a movie theater. More
February 17, 2022
A 24-year-old Colorado man was found guilty of attempted murder after he hit his friend in the head with a pan while she slept. More
February 17, 2022
The recording ends after the Black youth was handcuffed so it's not publicly known what happened next to the white youth. More
February 17, 2022
The three white men who pursued Ahmaud Arbery are charged with violating his civil rights and targeting him because he was Black. More
February 17, 2022
District Attorney Chesa Boudin said someone at the crime lab told his office the practice was a standard procedure. More
February 17, 2022
J. Alexander Kueng, one of three officers charged in connection with George Floyd's death, said he deferred to Derek Chauvin. More
February 16, 2022
BOSTON (AP) — A former Staples Inc. executive convicted of trying to bribe his three children’s way into elite universities was sentenced to serve 15 months in federal prison on Wednesday, the longest sentence so far handed down in the sprawling college admissions bribery scandal. More
February 16, 2022
The judge presiding over the libel lawsuit brought by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin against The New York Times said Wednesday that jurors knew before delivering their verdict that he'd already decided to rule against Palin but they said it didn't affect the outcome. More
February 16, 2022
A South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in prison for a killing that went unsolved for more than four decades until a DNA match helped investigators crack the case. Charles Ugvine Coleman pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in the March 1976 death of Elizabeth Ann Howell Wilson before his trial started at the Fairfield County Courthouse More
February 16, 2022
Minnesota prosecutors have apparently backed away from their pursuit of a longer-than-usual sentence for the suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist. More
February 16, 2022
