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Missing inmate who walked away from NJ halfway house recaptured, officials say
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in New Jersey have announced the recapture of a man who failed to return to a halfway house after serving a prison sentence for attacking and seriously injuring his parents more than two decades ago. The New Jersey Department of Corrections...
Death toll from Pakistan bombing rises to 54 as suspicion falls on local Islamic State group chapter
QUETTTA, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from a bombing in southwestern Pakistan as people celebrated the Prophet Muhammad's birthday rose to 54 after two critically wounded patients died in hospitals overnight, officials said Saturday. A suspected suicide bomber or bombers blew...
Arrest in Tupac Shakur killing stemmed from Biggie Smalls death investigation
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The first arrest in the 1996 slaying of Tupac Shakur had its roots in the investigation of the killing of Biggie Smalls. The shooting deaths of the two hip-hop luminaries and rivals — Shakur in Las Vegas and Smalls in Los Angeles six months later — have always...
Last living suspect in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted in Las Vegas on murder charge
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who prosecutors say ordered the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur was arrested and charged with murder Friday in a long-awaited breakthrough in one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries. Duane “Keffe D” Davis has long been known to investigators as one...
South Carolina inmates want executions paused while new lethal injection method is studied
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for six death row inmates out of appeals in South Carolina are asking the state Supreme Court to give full consideration to the state's new lethal injection rules as well as the electric chair and firing squad before restarting executions after an unintended 12-year...
Woman, 2 young children killed in murder-suicide in Alabama, sheriff says
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A south Alabama woman drowned her two children, ages 2 and 5, before she took her own life, Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said Friday. The bodies of the three were found Thursday at their home in Semmes. Burch told news outlets that autopsies showed that...
An ex-investigative journalist is sentenced to 6 years in a child sexual abuse materials case
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former investigative journalist for ABC News was sentenced Friday to six years in federal prison for possessing and transporting child sexual abuse images. James Gordon Meek, of Arlington, Virginia, pleaded guilty in July, admitting in a plea agreement that...
2 Mexican migrants shot dead, 3 injured in dawn attack on US border near Tecate, Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Mexican migrants were shot to death on the Mexican side of the U.S. border in the early hours of Friday morning, Mexico's National Migration Institute said. Another three suffered gunshot wounds, but were assisted by one of institute’s emergency rescue...
Baltimore Archdiocese files for bankruptcy before new law on abuse lawsuits takes effect
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Archdiocese of Baltimore on Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization days before a new state law goes into effect removing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims and allowing victims to sue their abusers decades after the fact. The...
New Mexico man charged with attempted murder in shooting at protest over Spanish conquistador statue
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man was charged Friday with attempted murder in a shooting that wounded one person at a protest over plans to install a statue of a Spanish conquistador outside government offices in the city of Española. Defendant Ryan David Martinez, from...
