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Alabama prisoner who escaped with jailer's help gets life sentence
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama prisoner received a life sentence on Thursday for escaping with the help of a jail official who ultimately took her own life as police closed in following a manhunt across three states. Casey White, 39, told those gathered in the Lauderdale County...
Clerk charged with murder at Detroit gas station weeks after similar shooting in city
DETROIT (AP) — A clerk was charged with murder Thursday in a second recent middle-of-the-night fatal shooting at Detroit gas stations related to disputes with customers. “This simply cannot continue to happen,” Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said. Anthony...
Acclaimed Cleveland school dance teacher gets life in prison for raping students
CLEVELAND (AP) — A former school dance teacher in Cleveland was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for raping six teenage students and sexually abusing two others. Terence Greene, 57, was convicted late last month by a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury that also found him...
US vice president announces more than $100M to help Caribbean during official visit to Bahamas
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday that the U.S. is investing more than $100 million in the Caribbean region to crack down on weapons trafficking, help alleviate Haiti’s humanitarian crisis and support climate change initiatives. The...
Murder trial set for woman accused of driving into Vegas Strip pedestrians
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge on Thursday scheduled a murder trial for next year for a woman who has spent more than seven years in state psychiatric care after she was accused of intentionally plowing a car into pedestrians, killing one, on the Las Vegas Strip. Paris Paradise...
Main suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway arrives in US from Peru to face charges
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, arrived in the United States from Peru on Thursday to face charges that he attempted to extort money from the missing woman’s mother. An FBI-operated plane carrying van...
Florida woman who fatally shot neighbor appears in court, sheriff releases details of racist threats
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A white Florida woman charged with shooting and killing her Black neighbor told detectives that she called the victim’s children by racist slurs in the months leading up to the slaying, according to an arrest report released Thursday. Susan Louise...
Off-duty officer testifies he didn't know just where shots fired from during Parkland massacre
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — An off-duty police officer who was on the baseball field at Florida's Parkland high school during the 2018 massacre testified Thursday he mistook gunshots for fireworks before realizing what was happening and approached the school unarmed. Coral Springs Sgt....
Knife attack at park in French Alps critically wounds 4 young children as people cry for help
PARIS (AP) — As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park in the French Alps on Thursday, assaulting at least one in a stroller repeatedly. Authorities said the children, between 22 months and 3 years old, suffered life-threatening injuries,...
Second lawsuit filed in death of Illinois mom during Florida parasailing trip
CHICAGO (AP) — The family of an Illinois woman killed in a 2022 crash while she and two children were parasailing in the Florida Keys filed a second lawsuit connected to her death this week and reflected on the tragic end to a family vacation about a year ago. Supraja Alaparthi,...
