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Bond denied for 4 'God's Misfits' defendants in the killing of 2 Kansas women

Apr. 18, 2024 11:54 AM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge ordered public defenders to represent four members of an anti-government group who appeared in court Wednesday on charges of kidnapping and killing two Kansas women. The judge also entered not-guilty pleas and denied bail for Tifany Adams, 54,...

Nigeria's army rescues a woman abducted from Chibok as a schoolgirl, and her 3 children

Apr. 18, 2024 10:47 AM EDT

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers rescued a woman who was abducted by extremists a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl in the village of Chibok, the army said Thursday. Her three children were also rescued. Lydia Simon, who is five months pregnant, was rescued by Nigerian...

US envoy to the UN vows support for families of Japanese who were abducted and taken to North Korea

Apr. 18, 2024 04:17 AM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — The United States ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday that America will stand with Japan until all the Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago return home to end their painful separation. Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the comments on Thursday as she...

Man sentenced to 47 years to life for kidnapping 9-year-old girl from upstate New York park

Apr. 17, 2024 17:00 PM EDT

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a state park in upstate New York last year. Craig N. Ross Jr. pleaded guilty in February to taking the girl in...

Man gets 4 death sentences for kidnapping, rape and murder of 5-year-old Georgia girl

Apr. 16, 2024 18:05 PM EDT

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — A man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 5-year-old Georgia girl has been given four death sentences for the crime. Russell County Circuit Court Judge David Johnson handed down the sentence Monday against Jeremy Williams who murdered, raped and brutalized...

Man gets 37-year sentence for kidnapping FBI employee in South Dakota

Apr. 16, 2024 12:19 PM EDT

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — One of three people convicted of carjacking and kidnapping an FBI employee in South Dakota has been sentenced to 37 years in prison. Juan Alvarez-Sorto, 25, was sentenced Friday in federal court, the Rapid City Journal reported. Alvarez-Sorto and Deyvin...

Members of self-proclaimed anti-government group ‘God’s Misfits’ held in killings of Kansas women

Apr. 15, 2024 17:11 PM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two Kansas women who vanished as they tried to pick up children for a birthday party two weeks ago were killed over a custody dispute involving a group of anti-government Oklahomans calling themselves “God’s Misfits,” authorities said Monday. Their...

4 family members plead not guilty in abduction and abuse of a malnourished Iowa teen

Apr. 15, 2024 16:52 PM EDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four members of a rural Iowa family have pleaded not guilty in the abduction and abuse of an 18-year-old relative who had allegedly showed up at a hospital so badly beaten that his brain was bleeding and so malnourished that he weighed just 70 pounds (32 kilograms),...

Pakistani police search for gunmen who abducted bus passengers and killed 11 in the southwest

Apr. 13, 2024 15:40 PM EDT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police searched for gunmen who killed nine people after abducting them from a bus on a highway in the country’s southwest. The same attackers earlier killed two people and wounded six in another car they forced to stop. The abductions took place...

Body of missing Alabama mother found; boyfriend in custody

Apr. 13, 2024 13:50 PM EDT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A two-day search for a missing Alabama mother of four has ended after her body was found in southwest Birmingham, authorities said. The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Birmingham Police Department's Crime Reduction Team found...