Tag: Violent crime
Garland launches gun trafficking strike forces in 5 cities
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is launching an effort in five cities in the U.S. to reduce spiking gun violence by addressing illegal trafficking...
50-year war on drugs imprisoned millions of Black Americans
Landscaping was hardly his lifelong dream.
As a teenager, Alton Lucas...
Suburban Indianapolis cop shoots, wounds person outside home
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — A suburban Indianapolis police officer shot and wounded a “male subject" early Wednesday after officers responded to a call for assistance...
Man wounded in 4th police shooting in Aurora this month
AURORA, Colo. — A man believed to be a suspect in a domestic violence incident was wounded by police in Aurora on Tuesday in...
Justices deal blow to outdated claims of child sexual abuse
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's high court on Wednesday dealt a blow to victims of child sexual abuse who had hoped to revive their otherwise...
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...
Suit says police held wrong woman at gunpoint, damaged car
WILMINGTON, Del. — A woman is suing Delaware State Police alleging that plainclothes officers in unmarked cars blockaded her in her car and held...
Sentencing set for gunman who killed 5 in newsroom attack
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The gunman found criminally responsible for killing five people at a Maryland newspaper is scheduled to be sentenced in September.
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White woman granted probation for spitting on Black woman
HARTFORD, Conn. — A white woman who was charged with a hate crime after being caught on video spitting on a Black woman during...