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Jury sees video of subway chokehold that led to Marine veteran's manslaughter trial
NEW YORK (AP) — As he lay on a subway floor with a stranger's arm around his neck, Jordan Neely reached and tapped a bystander on the leg, video showed Monday at the manslaughter trial surrounding Neely's death. The bystander bent down to Neely, who gestured urgently with his...
Investigators charge 4 more South Carolina men in fatal Georgia high school party shooting
ELBERTON, Ga. (AP) — Four more South Carolina men have been arrested on charges connected with a fatal Oct. 12 shooting in Elberton, Georgia, at a homecoming afterparty. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that it arrested Destanne Mathis, 20; Aanidras Parks, 18;...
Manslaughter charges dropped in a man's death at a psychiatric hospital
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge has signed off on a prosecutor’s request to withdraw charges against two people charged in the 2023 death of Irvo Otieno, a young man who was pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes while being admitted to a state psychiatric hospital. ...
Ex-officer found guilty in the 2020 shooting death of Andre Hill
A former police officer was convicted of murder Monday in the shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed. Officer Adam Coy, who served nearly 20 years with the Columbus police force, shot Hill four times in a garage nearly four years...
Police in Brazil indict Colombian fish trader in high profile killing in Amazon region
Brazilian police have indicted a Colombian fish trader as the person who planned the slaying of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon in 2022, they announced Monday. The statement did not name the accused, but a police officer told the The...
Florida prosecutor says 17-year-old suspect in Halloween fatal shootings will be charged as adult
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A 17-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed two people and wounded seven others during a Halloween celebration that drew 75,000 revelers to the streets of downtown Orlando, Florida, last week has been charged as an adult, a prosecutor said Monday. Jaylen...
Trial opens in France in the beheading of a teacher over prophet cartoons
PARIS (AP) — The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam's prophet to his middle school students for a lesson on freedom of expression. ...
Iran executes a Jewish citizen convicted of murder following a dispute over money
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Monday executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man in 2022 following a personal dispute, reports said. It was a rare case of an execution of member of a religious minority in the predominately Muslim nation. Mizanonline.ir, a website...
True crime's popularity brings real change for defendants and society. It's not all good
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 1989, Americans were riveted by the shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion by their own children. Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison and lost all subsequent appeals. But today, more than three decades later, they...
Trial in 2017 killings of 2 teenage girls in Indiana reaches midway point as prosecution rests
DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — The trial of a man accused of killing two teenage girls in a small Indiana community has passed its midway point following more than two weeks of testimony about the 2017 killings. Prosecutors rested their case Thursday against Richard Allen after jurors heard...
