Tag: Homicide
Attorneys: Dismissal exonerates mentally ill man in killing
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Attorneys for a mentally disabled Indiana man whose conviction in the 2002 slaying of a 94-year-old woman was overturned last...
Ranger: 3 charged in 4 Texas killings planned to steal gun
NEW SUMMERFIELD, Texas — Three men charged in the fatal shooting of four people at a home in East Texas this week met up...
50-year war on drugs imprisoned millions of Black Americans
Landscaping was hardly his lifelong dream.
As a teenager, Alton Lucas...
Italian lawyers group slams court review of US trial defense
ROME — Several professional associations representing Italian criminal defense lawyers have slammed a Rome court’s written attack on the team which defended two U.S....
Pharmacist in meningitis outbreak gets more prison time
BOSTON — A former Massachusetts pharmacist convicted for his role in a deadly 2012 multistate meningitis outbreak that killed more than 100 people and...
New prosecutor appointed in shooting of Rayshard Brooks
ATLANTA — Georgia's attorney general announced Wednesday that he has appointed the head of a prosecutors' group to oversee the criminal case against the...
Sheriff: Deputy kills man during a 911 domestic dispute call
DAVENPORT, Fla. — A Florida deputy fatally shot a man who charged at the deputy with a knife, officials said.
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Bodies driven to town hall after apparent murder-suicide
GAS CITY, Ind. — A man apparently fatally shot his wife and then himself in an SUV operated by a relative who drove the...
Getaway driver gets 42 years in Chicago honor student death
CHICAGO — The getaway driver in the 2013 fatal shooting of a Chicago high school honor student who just days before her death had...
Indiana man gets 52 months in son’s methamphetamine death
PORTLAND, Ind. — An eastern Indiana man whose infant son died from methamphetamine intoxication was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison...