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Jury selection set to open in terrorism trial of extended family stemming from 2018 New Mexico raid

Sep. 25, 2023 00:12 AM EDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jury selection is set to open Monday in federal court as members of an extended family face kidnapping and terrorism charges stemming from a raid of their squalid New Mexico encampment in 2018 by agents seeking a sickly, missing 3-year-old boy. The boy's...

Video of Elijah McClain's stop by police shown as officers on trial in Black man's death

Sep. 22, 2023 20:52 PM EDT

BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Elijah McClain's mother left a Colorado courtroom in tears Friday after prosecutors showed video footage of the 23-year-old Black man pinned down by police officers during a fatal 2019 confrontation, which rose to prominence during nationwide protests over racial...

Gold bars, cash-stuffed envelopes: New indictment of Sen. Menendez alleges vast corruption

Sep. 22, 2023 20:00 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Powerful Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey was charged Friday with secretly aiding the authoritarian government of Egypt and trying to thwart the criminal prosecution of a friend in exchange for gold bars and cash under a corruption indictment that accuses him of using his foreign...

Jury convicts ex-NFL draft prospect of fatally shooting man at Mississippi casino

Sep. 22, 2023 18:13 PM EDT

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A former NFL draft prospect has been found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for shooting a man to death on the floor of a casino on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Jurors deliberated for only 46 minutes Thursday before reaching a guilty...

Iowa man disappears on the day a jury finds him guilty of killing his wife

Sep. 22, 2023 17:53 PM EDT

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Police were searching for an Iowa man who failed to show up at his first-degree murder trial on Friday, the day a jury found him guilty of killing his wife. A judge issued an arrest warrant for Gregory Showalter Sr. of Ottumwa after he missed the reading of the...

Weapons charges dropped in 2018 raid on family compound in desert that turned up child's remains

Sep. 21, 2023 21:44 PM EDT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two firearms charges were dismissed Thursday amid preparations for a trial against an extended family arrested in a 2018 law enforcement raid on a ramshackle desert compound in northern New Mexico and the discovery of a young boy's decomposed body. The changes...

Texas teen sentenced to 40 years after killing a student and injuring another in school shooting

Sep. 21, 2023 18:38 PM EDT

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A 16-year-old who opened fire at a Dallas-area school earlier this year, killing one student and injuring another, was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for capital murder and attempted capital murder, prosecutors said. The teen, who was 15 at the...

A panel finds torture made a 9/11 defendant psychotic. A judge will rule whether he can stand trial

Sep. 21, 2023 14:22 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody. The findings heighten uncertainty over whether...

Judge dismisses charges against Vermont deputy in upstate New York brawl and shootout

Sep. 20, 2023 22:57 PM EDT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge in New York dismissed all charges Wednesday against a Vermont deputy who was involved in a chaotic sidewalk brawl that ended when he was shot multiple times by police. Judge James A. Murphy said many factors went into his decision, including the...

Florida jury pool could give Trump an advantage in classified documents case

Sep. 19, 2023 16:35 PM EDT

MIAMI (AP) — The classified documents indictment of Donald Trump would seem, on paper at least, to be the most straightforward of the four criminal cases the former president is facing. Reams of classified files were stashed in Trump's office and storage room and he boastfully...