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Man fatally shot on I-95, family still seeks answers
Man fatally shot on I-95, family still seeks answers

“Someone took his life. And that person is still out there…” JUPITER, Fla. (Scripps News West Palm) — It’s been nearly a year since Christopher Maassen was shot and killed on I-95 in Jupiter, and his family is still searching for answers.   Peaceful, spiritual, and loving are just a few words his relatives use […] More

February 11, 2022

New details about events leading up to teen’s disappearance
New details about events leading up to teen’s disappearance

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (Scripps News Colorado Springs) — An affidavit reveals new details about the events that led up to the disappearance of Kara Nichols. According to the affidavit, Paul Nichols reported his daughter missing to Deputy Ayyad with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 14, 2012. He went on to state that […] More

February 10, 2022

Former Colorado middle school employee arrested for child sex assault
Former Colorado middle school employee arrested for child sex assault

DENVER (Scripps News Denver) – A former paraeducator at Quist Middle School in Thornton has been charged with sexual assault on a child after allegedly sexually assaulting a student at the school, according to prosecutors. Cathia Covarrubias Ruiz, 24, faces counts of sexual assault on a child, sexual assault on a child – pattern of […] More

February 10, 2022

Man pleads guilty to killing fellow federal prisoner
Man pleads guilty to killing fellow federal prisoner

A federal inmate pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday, admitting that he was one of three people to attack and kill the leader of a child pornography ring who was in custody in Michigan. The government will recommend that Adam Wright, formerly of Springfield, Illinois, not get more than 27 years in prison, according to his plea agreement. More

February 10, 2022

Boston man gets more than 11 years on trafficking charges
Boston man gets more than 11 years on trafficking charges

A Boston man described by federal authorities as a "serial sex trafficker" who exploited multiple victims including minors over a 15-year period was sentenced Thursday to more than 11 years in prison. Bruce "Arki" Brown, 43, targeted vulnerable and transient women and manipulated them through psychological techniques to maintain control, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Boston. More

February 10, 2022

Man found guilty in 1993 Alaska university killing case
Man found guilty in 1993 Alaska university killing case

A jury in Alaska found a man guilty on Thursday of the killing and rape of a woman at a university that went unsolved for more than two decades. The killing of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1993 flummoxed investigators for years. They linked Steven Downs of Auburn, Maine, to the crime using DNA evidence, and he was arrested in 2019. More

February 10, 2022

Police solve 1964 rape, murder of girl with DNA, volunteer
Police solve 1964 rape, murder of girl with DNA, volunteer

DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly six decades ago. State police exhumed the long-dead assailant's body last month and said his DNA precisely matched DNA left on the jacket of the victim, 9-year-old Marise Ann Chiverella, who was snatched on the morning of March 18, 1964, as she walked to school in Hazleton, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) north of Philadelphia. Her body was found that afternoon in a nearby waste coal pit. More

February 10, 2022

Two students charged in shooting outside Maryland high school
Two students charged in shooting outside Maryland high school

Court documents reveal two students have been charged in connection to a shooting that occurred Tuesday in the parking lot of Catonsville High School in Baltimore County. Police say it all started when two students left school and headed out to the parking lot to get in their car. They noticed a white Volvo parked behind their vehicle with two people inside. More

February 10, 2022

Lieutenant: Officers should have intervened in Floyd killing
Lieutenant: Officers should have intervened in Floyd killing

Three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for violating George Floyd's civil rights should have intervened to stop fellow Officer Derek Chauvin when he had his knee on the Black man's neck, the head of the Minneapolis Police Department's homicide unit testified Thursday. More

February 10, 2022

Parent in college bribery scandal gets year in prison
Parent in college bribery scandal gets year in prison

A former casino executive who was one of just two parents to go to trial in the sprawling college admissions bribery scandal was sentenced Wednesday to serve one year and one day in federal prison, the stiffest sentence so far handed down in the case, federal prosecutors said. More

February 9, 2022

Capitol rioter draped in Confederate flag pleads guilty
Capitol rioter draped in Confederate flag pleads guilty

A Maryland man who was draped in a Confederate flag when he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Wednesday to joining the attack as a mob disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden's election as president. More

February 9, 2022