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Five years ago in Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was recorded arresting George Floyd. The video was seen across the world as he pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and ...

Charles Blunt, 56, was booked on a second-degree murder charge police said. Abbott's 'death penalty' comment on jet ski crash prompts Houston civil rights nonprofit to respond I’ve been a ...

(KRON) — A 68-year-old Vallejo man convicted in the 1975 Union City murder of a 13-year-old girl ... parole sentence in the death of Cassie Riley before being paroled in 2016.

The gruesome murder set off almost a year of policy debates and political calculus that culminated in President Donald Trump signing the Laken Riley Act into law. Collins, the leading House ...

The rural area about 4 miles east of the city of Brazil. After a grand jury was convened, Thomas L. Anderson Jr., of Arcadia, was arrested Tuesday, and a murder charge was filed against him in ...

GILBERT, AZ — A man has been indicted for second-degree murder in the shooting death of a landscaper hired to do work on the property he was renting. Just after 4:30 p.m. on May 19, Gilbert ...

Davis Riley will never forget hopping into the restored 1975 Corvette Stingray with the traditional winner’s plaid jacket alongside his wife after claiming the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge ...

FULTON COUNTY, OHIO, Ohio — In March 2018, James Worley was convicted of the Fulton County kidnapping and murder of 20-year-old Sierah Joughin. Worley was sentenced to death by the court system.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, is set to be executed by lethal injection on May 22 for the 1989 brutal murder of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons. Former Metro ...

HIGH FALLS, N.Y. — An Albany-area man is accused of posting threats to shoot President Donald Trump and DOGE leader and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. That's according to an affidavit filed by the FBI in ...

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. — A 28-year-old man was acquitted of murder in the shooting death of 2-year-old Jeremy Poou-Carceres, but found guilty on three out of 11 charges. Jeremy and his ...