A jury cleared Ms. Read of charges related to the 2022 death of John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, and convicted her only of drunken driving, in a trial that attracted wide attention.
Karen Read, center, gestured to her supporters on Tuesday outside Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass. A jury there acquitted her of murder on Wednesday.
Born and raised in Louisiana, he investigated unresolved civil-rights-era killings in the Deep South. His reporting on one of those cases made him a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
The teenager, Ryan Hinton, was shot by a police officer responding to a stolen vehicle report on May 1. The youth’s father is accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy with his car.
The “No Kings” march in Philadelphia was one of several protests in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Mr. Krebs was pointed out by people in the crowd at an event in West Chester, Pa.
Both state and federal officials are pursuing murder charges against a man they say killed a state lawmaker and her husband. A federal case could lead to the death penalty.
A makeshift memorial for State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, began to form outside the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul earlier this week.
A job in a prison kitchen apparently helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief serving time for murder and rape, plot his escape by fashioning a makeshift police uniform, Arkansas prison officials said.
The authorities believe that Grant Hardin, a former small-town police chief convicted of murder, used his law enforcement knowledge to create a makeshift uniform to escape from a prison in Arkansas.
After a gunman killed a lawmaker and wounded another, officials scrambled in what they called the largest manhunt in Minnesota’s history. The suspect was arrested on Sunday and charged with murder.
Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, a Samoan-born fashion designer, was participating in an anti-Trump protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday when he was shot by a man working security, the police said.
Yvette Hoffman was shot during an attack on Saturday morning that also wounded her husband, State Sen. John A. Hoffman of Minnesota. They both survived the shooting.
Yvette Hoffman and her husband, State Senator John Hoffman, were wounded at their home in Champlin, Minn.
It was not immediately clear who was targeted in the Saturday morning shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minn. The police said the gunman may be wearing body armor and impersonating an officer.
It was not immediately clear who was targeted in the Saturday morning shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minn. The police said the gunman may be wearing body armor and impersonating an officer.
The rapper Silentó became a sensation with his hit “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” He was arrested and initially charged with murder after his cousin was found with multiple gunshot wounds.
Ten people were killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Graz, the country’s second-largest city, the police said. The suspect also died, in an apparent suicide.
Gangs are preying on local businesses, demanding money and unleashing violence if they refuse. A surge in extortion has traumatized many parts of the country.
Gangs are preying on local businesses demanding money and unleashing violence if they refuse. A surge in extortions has traumatized many parts of the country.
The police said the gunman, who turned himself in, and the victims had “previously engaged in conflict over social media.” The shooting was captured on video.
Travis Decker is a former member of the military who has enough wilderness survival skills to live in the woods on his own for weeks or months, the authorities said.
Grant Hardin, who came to be known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” was captured on Friday, nearly two weeks after his May 25 escape from a high-security prison.
Sunny Jacobs in 2019. She spent nearly 17 years in prison in Florida, five of them on death row, for the murders of two law enforcement officers at a Florida rest stop.
Portuguese police are combing an area near the resort where the British girl disappeared in 2007, as German authorities continue to investigate a suspect, Christian Brückner.
Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went unsolved for years. Women now may face lengthy prison sentences for decades-old chapters of their pasts.
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