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Activist: Kidnapping, killings of call center workers in Mexico has been happening for years
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A missing-persons activist in western Mexico said Wednesday that call center workers have been going missing in Mexico since at least 2017, and that authorities have done little to solve the cases. Activist Hector Flores says authorities’ failure to investigate...
Man pleads guilty to assisting in plot to kidnap Michigan governor
BELLAIRE, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of aiding a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor pleaded guilty Wednesday, the ninth conviction in state and federal courts since agents broke up an astonishing scheme by anti-government rebels in 2020. Shawn Fix said he provided material...
Florida official says migrants flown to California went willingly, disputes claims of coercion
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration said Tuesday that three dozen migrants whom the state flew from the U.S. southern border to California on private planes all went willingly, disputing allegations by California officials that the individuals were coerced to...
Wife of slain man says police didn't respond to her 911 report that he had been taken hostage
DENVER (AP) — A woman who received a desperate text from her husband indicating he had been taken hostage said Tuesday that she called 911 but that police did not respond until about an hour later, by which time he had been shot and killed. On its online police blotter, the...
Man accused of supporting foiled plot to kidnap Michigan governor set to change not-guilty plea
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of supporting a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan's governor plans to change his not-guilty plea, records show. Shawn Michael Fix, 40, of Belleville, is one of five men charged with providing material support for an act of terrorism in the...
Lawyer: Health of Gadhafi's son, detained in Lebanon, deteriorating 3 days into hunger strike
BEIRUT (AP) — The health of a son of Libya's late leader Moammar Gadhafi was deteriorating three days into a hunger strike to protest his detention in Lebanon without trial, his lawyer said Tuesday. Hannibal Gadhafi was suffering from headaches, muscle pain and difficulties moving...
Gadhafi's son goes on hunger strike in Lebanon to protest detention without trial
BEIRUT (AP) — A son of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi, who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years, began a hunger strike Saturday to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said. Hannibal Gadhafi has been held in Lebanon since 2015 after he was kidnapped...
Retired Phoenix police officer in landmark Miranda rights case dies at 87
PHOENIX (AP) — Retired Phoenix Police Capt. Carroll Cooley, the arresting officer in the landmark case partially responsible for the Supreme Court's Miranda rights ruling that requires suspects be read their rights, has died, the department confirmed Friday. He was 87. Phoenix...
Top Pakistani human rights lawyer returns home after mysterious kidnapping in Karachi
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A top Pakistani human rights lawyer who was abducted by armed men in the country's biggest city of Karachi returned home Friday, police said. It was not immediately clear who was behind Jibran Nasir's kidnapping on Thursday or where he had been held. His...
Kidnapping charge tossed out against ex-mayor in case of missing Mexican students
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The former mayor of a southern Mexico town where 43 students were abducted and disappeared in 2014 has been cleared of a kidnapping charge in the case, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Wednesday. José Luis Abarca, who will remain in prison for...
