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Police identified the couple as 87-year-old Sondra Wiener of Boynton Beach and her 90-year-old husband, Marvin. More

February 21, 2022

Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery on a residential street acted out of "pent-up racial anger" and should be convicted of hate crimes, a federal prosecutor told a jury Monday. Defense attorneys argued that the Black man was fatally shot in self-defense and had acted suspiciously during prior trips to the neighborhood. More

February 21, 2022

A man accused of killing three people whose dismembered bodies were found in a burning dumpster in Texas in September was indicted Friday in the killing of his roommate, who was found dead in another fire months earlier. More

February 18, 2022

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