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Indiana man gets life in prison for 1975 drowning of Indiana teenager
ALBION, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1975 killing of a 17-year-old girl who was found dead in a river after she failed to return home from her job at a church camp. A Noble County judge sentenced Fred Bandy Jr., 69, on Tuesday to a life...
A Russian is charged over the fatal stabbing of 2 Ukrainian soldiers in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — A Russian man who supported his country's war in Ukraine has been charged with murder over the fatal stabbing in Germany earlier this year of two wounded Ukrainian soldiers who were recovering from operations there, prosecutors said Wednesday. The 57-year-old suspect,...
Pakistan police arrest 3 men who stabbed and killed 2 transgender women at their home
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's police arrested three men on suspicion of killing two transgender women with daggers at their home in the country's conservative northwest, police said on Wednesday. District police chief Zahur Babar Afridi told reporters that the men were...
Court upholds freedom for woman whose conviction was overturned after 43 years behind bars
An appellate court in Missouri ruled Tuesday that a lower court was right when it decided to overturn the murder conviction of a woman who spent 43 years behind bars for a killing that her attorneys argue was committed by a discredited police officer. Sandra Hemme was freed in July...
15-year-old boy is held pending charges in 5 deaths in Washington state
SEATTLE (AP) — A 15-year-old boy will be held pending charges in connection with the deaths of two adults and three young teenagers at a home east of Seattle, authorities said Tuesday. The teen waived his right to appear in court on Tuesday, according to the King County Prosecuting...
Burial held for Catholic priest and Indigenous peace activist killed in southern Mexico
SAN ANDRES LARRAINZAR, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of people turned out Tuesday for the burial of Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. Some 2,000 mourners shouted slogans like...
Swiss tourist suffers 'violent death' visiting Algeria with tour group
DJANET, Algeria (AP) — A Swiss tourist was killed earlier this month in Algeria, which has in recent years aimed to attract tourists and put a history of instability and terrorism in the Sahara in the past. Switzerland's Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said in a statement...
US charges Iran Revolutionary Guard official in alleged plot to kill a human rights activist in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a senior Iranian military official and three others with links to that country's government with plotting to kill an Iranian American author on U.S. soil — a development lauded by the alleged target. “This is a beautiful...
A Georgia teen accused in the Apalachee High School shooting has pleaded not guilty
ATLANTA (AP) — A 14-year-old Georgia boy indicted on murder charges in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School pleaded not guilty on Tuesday. Colt Gray's lawyer filed papers entering the plea after Gray was indicted on Thursday. They waived an arraignment hearing that had been...
Rwandan genocide survivors describe the 1994 mass killings at a Paris trial
PARIS (AP) — Bullets flew. Then men with machetes and clubs burst into a convent where people had found refuge, killing almost all the boys and men. Angélique Uwamahoro was 13 at the time of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She said she had to walk through the bodies to survive. ...
