Puerto Rico sues former officials accused of corruption to recover more than $30M in public funds

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s Justice Department announced Tuesday it is suing at least 30 former government officials accused of corruption to recover more than $30 million in public funds. Among those sued are three former legislators, including María Milagros...

Arkansas man pleads not guilty to murder charges for mass shooting at grocery store

CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas man accused of killing four people and injuring 10 others, including two police officers, in a mass shooting at a grocery store pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple charges connected to the attack. Appearing in court for the first time, Travis...

Masked intruder pleads guilty to 2007 attack on Connecticut arts patron and fake virus threat

The last of three masked men pleaded guilty to a failed attempt to extort $8.5 million from a wealthy Connecticut arts patron and her companion by threatening them with a deadly virus in a 2007 home invasion. The 38-year-old Romanian citizen, Stefan Alexandru Barabas, had been on the...

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange arrives at court before guilty plea in deal with US securing his freedom

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has arrived at a federal courthouse in Saipan ahead of an expected guilty plea in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will set him free to return home to Australia. The plane carrying the eccentric...

Karen Read's jurors must now decide: Was it deadly romance or police corruption?

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The fate of Karen Read was handed Tuesday to jurors who must decide whether she ended a rocky romance by angrily striking her boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him mortally injured in the snow, or is a victim of police corruption, framed to cover up a fight at the home of...

Judge considering if ex-gang leader held in Tupac Shakur killing gets house arrest on $750K bail

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge said Tuesday she wasn't immediately convinced of the legality of an effort by a hip-hop music figure to underwrite a $750,000 bond to free a former Los Angeles-area gang leader from jail ahead of his murder trial in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music legend Tupac...

Suspect is dead after shootings near Las Vegas leave 5 people dead, teen injured, police say

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who fatally shot five people and critically injured a 13-year-old girl at apartments near Las Vegas has killed himself, authorities said Tuesday. The North Las Vegas Police Department said the suspected shooter, 57-year-old Eric Adams, killed himself Tuesday...

Brazil’s Supreme Court votes to decriminalize possession of marijuana for personal use

Florida man kills mother and 2 other women before dying in gunfight with deputies, sheriff says

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man fatally shot his mother and two other women he knew in separate locations before dying in a gunfight with deputies hundreds of miles away, a sheriff said Tuesday. Officials identified the shooter as Javontee Brice, 28. Authorities believe Brice...

2 inmates charged with attempted murder after attack on Montana jail guards

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Two Montana inmates were charged with attempted murder Tuesday after allegedly using makeshift weapons to attack corrections officers in a county jail, sending one of the officers to the hospital with stab wounds to the head. The two inmates pleaded not...