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Man Who Killed 4 in Arkansas Grocery Store Shooting Gets Life Without Parole

The man, Travis Eugene Posey, also injured 11 people in the shooting at the Mad Butcher in Fordyce, Ark., in June 2024. He received four consecutive life terms.

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The shooting on June 21, 2024, temporarily shuttered the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, a small town of 3,400 people about 70 miles south of Little Rock.
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Victims Named in Montana Bar Shooting as Manhunt Stretches On

Those killed on Friday were a bartender and three patrons, ranging in age from 59 to 74, the authorities said. The suspect fled into the nearby foothills.

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Four people were killed in a shooting at the Owl Bar in Anaconda, Mont., on Friday.
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What We Know About the Montana Bar Shooting

Four people were killed in the attack inside the Owl Bar in Anaconda, Mont. The authorities are still searching for the suspect, an Army veteran who lived nearby.

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Authorities identified Michael Brown, 45, as a suspect in a shooting that left four people dead at a bar in Montana on Friday morning.
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4 Dead in Anaconda, Montana, Bar Shooting; Police Search for Gunman

Law enforcement officials were looking for the suspect, who lived close to the bar in the town of Anaconda, the day after the shooting.

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People outside The Owl Bar in Anaconda, Mont., after the shooting on Friday.
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How U.S. Officials Grappled With the Release of a Triple Murderer

The decision to free an American convicted of murder in a prisoner swap with Venezuela threatened to undercut President Trump’s claims of keeping the worst of the worst out of the United States.

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Michael Kozak, a senior State Department diplomat, wondered in an email exchange whether, having obtained the freedom of Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a U.S. Army veteran convicted of murdering three people in Madrid in 2016, the U.S. government might extradite him to Spain.
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Man Arrested in Killing of Couple Hiking With Kids in Arkansas

The man, Andrew James McGann, was charged with two counts of capital murder. The couple were killed while hiking with their young daughters in Devil’s Den State Park on Saturday.

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A man has been arrested in the killing of a couple in a state park in Arkansas. The man, Andrew James McGann, 28, was charged with two counts of capital murder.
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Colorado Dentist Gets Life Without Parole in Wife’s Poisoning Murder

James Craig was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2023 death of his wife, Angela Craig. Prosecutors say he served her protein shakes laced with arsenic and later poisoned her with cyanide at a hospital.

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James Craig of Colorado was led away after being convicted on Wednesday of murdering his wife in 2023.
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Reno Shooting Shatters Lives at a Bachelor Party

The police said that a gunman had shot randomly at a group that was preparing to head home to California after a bachelor party weekend. Three people died in the shooting, and three others were injured.

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The police responded to a shooting outside the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev., on Monday.
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Arkansas Police Release Photo of ‘Person of Interest’ in Killing of Couple

A picture and a sketch show a person that the state police are seeking to question in the deaths of Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, in Devil’s Den State Park. Their daughters, 7 and 9, were not physically harmed.
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Gunman Shoots 6 at Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, Killing 3

The police shot the gunman after he fired at them during the attack at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, the authorities said. Two of his victims remained in critical condition.

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The Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev.
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Manhunt Underway in Arkansas After Couple Are Killed in State Park

The couple were hiking with their two daughters on Saturday when they were attacked, according to the police, who asked for help in searching for the killer.

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Devil’s Den State Park in northwestern Arkansas.
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Illinois Man Convicted in Killing of Palestinian American Boy Dies in Custody

Joseph Czuba, who was convicted of killing 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi in 2023, died two months after a judge sentenced him to 53 years in prison. He was 73.

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Joseph Czuba entering the courtroom for his arraignment in the killing of 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi, in Joliet, Ill., in 2023.
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Idaho Murders Case Investigators Dispel Baseless Rumors and Theories About Bryan Kohberger

In an interview, the lead prosecutor, Bill Thompson, decried how some of the wild speculations surrounding the case made life “hell” for innocent people.

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Bryan Kohberger at the Ada County Courthouse after his sentencing hearing, in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday.
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New Documents Shed Light on Bryan Kohberger and Idaho Student Murders

Police reports released by the authorities in Moscow, Idaho, detail what investigators found at the scene where four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed.

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Chief Anthony Dahlinger of the Moscow Police Department speaking at a news conference at a courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday after the sentencing of Bryan Kohberger on Wednesday.
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American Convicted of Murder Among Those Trump Rescued From Venezuela Prison

The Trump administration said it was protecting Americans unjustly held abroad. One of the rescued men, Dahud Hanid Ortiz, killed three people, according to court documents.

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A photo released on social media by the State Department shows some of the 10 freed Americans who had been detained in Venezuela as they returned to the United States this month. Dahud Hanid Ortiz is at center right, holding a small flag.
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Here’s what to know about the case.

The students’ families will have an opportunity to address the court, and many hope for answers to one major question about the brutal case: What was the motive?
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Bryan Kohberger to Be Sentenced in Killing of 4 Idaho Students

The students’ families will have an opportunity to address the court, and many hope for answers to one major question about the brutal case: What was the motive?

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Bryan Kohberger appeared at the Ada County Courthouse this month in Boise, Idaho.
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TV Show Helps Identify Mother and Child Found Dead in Rome Park, and a Suspect

When two bodies were found in a popular Roman park, Italians wanted answers. A TV program specializing in missing people helped identify them, and a suspect.

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Forensic police officers working last month at the park where a woman and child were found dead in Rome.
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5 Charged in U.C. Berkeley Professor’s Killing in Greece, Including His Ex-Wife

Przemyslaw Jeziorski, who taught quantitative marketing at the Haas School of Business, was shot several times on July 4 outside Athens, the authorities said.

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An image from video showing police officers arresting five people over the killing of a University of California, Berkeley, professor in a suburb of Athens.
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Dan Serafini, Former Baseball Pitcher, Is Convicted of Murder

The 51-year-old faces life in prison without parole for killing his father-in-law and gravely wounding his mother-in-law in execution-style shootings in 2021.

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Dan Serafini throws a warm-up pitch before the first inning of an exhibition spring training baseball game between Italy and the Los Angeles Angels in 2013.
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Two Palestinians Are Killed in a West Bank Clash With Israeli Settlers

Palestinian authorities and family members said Israeli settlers beat and killed a Palestinian-American man. Israel said the violence began when Palestinians threw stones at Israeli civilians.

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Israeli soldiers holding back Palestinians trying to get to injured Palestinians after clashes with Israeli settlers in Sinjil in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday.
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