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Michigan judge to decide whether Oxford High School shooter gets life in prison or chance at parole

Sep. 29, 2023 07:55 AM EDT

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager who killed four students at Michigan's Oxford High School will learn Friday whether he will spend his life in prison or get a chance for parole in the decades ahead. Judge Kwame Rowe will announce his decision over video conference, weeks after...

Swiss indict daughter of former Uzbek president in bribery, money laundering case involving millions

Sep. 29, 2023 06:17 AM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss federal prosecutors have indicted the daughter of a former president of Uzbekistan on charges including money laundering, bribery and participation in a criminal network that used “violence and intimidation.” Authorities have already frozen or confiscated hundreds of...

The boyfriend of a Navajo woman has been convicted of fatally shooting her in emblematic case

Sep. 29, 2023 00:19 AM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose case became emblematic of an international movement launched to draw attention to an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women has been convicted of first-degree murder in her death. Tre C. James, 31, was convicted Wednesday...

A man is shot and wounded as tempers flare in New Mexico over the statue of a Spanish conquistador

Sep. 28, 2023 23:19 PM EDT

ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) — Chaos erupted Thursday as a gunshot rang out during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate, an event that county officials had already postponed anticipating that tempers would flare. ...

California man who shot two sheriff's deputies in revenge attack convicted of attempted murder

Sep. 28, 2023 21:21 PM EDT

COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — A Compton man who shot and seriously wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies in a 2020 revenge attack as they sat in a patrol car was convicted Thursday of attempted murder and could face life in prison. Deonte Lee Murray, 39, also was convicted of...

Jury acquits delivery driver of main charge in shooting of YouTube prankster

Sep. 28, 2023 20:28 PM EDT

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A jury on Thursday found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who followed him around a mall food court earlier this year. Alan Colie, 31, was acquitted of aggravated malicious wounding in the shooting of Tanner Cook, 21, who runs...

Menendez tells Senate colleagues he won't resign, remains defiant amid bribery charges

Sep. 28, 2023 19:43 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez remained defiant in the face of federal bribery charges on Thursday, telling a room full of his Senate Democratic colleagues that he has no plans to resign. Speaking behind closed doors at the Capitol, Menendez echoed his previous...

Judge sentences a woman who investigators say burned a Wyoming abortion clinic to 5 years in prison

Sep. 28, 2023 19:10 PM EDT

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Emotional and physical abuse by parents who expected her to someday play a “supporting role” in her own life in deference to a future husband featured in the childhood of a woman who burned what was to be Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in at least a...

Nebraska police standoff ends with arrest and safe hostage release

Sep. 28, 2023 18:34 PM EDT

Nebraska police on Wednesday arrested a 37-year-old man after a nearly 30-hour standoff and the release of three hostages, including two children. Police arrested the man, who had barricaded himself inside a home after crashing into the garage Tuesday, several hours after he...

Man arrested in killing of Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere was released from prison in 2022

Sep. 28, 2023 18:14 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police have arrested a man in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur last week as authorities alleged the suspect was in the midst of a violent rampage that also included a recent rape, arson and attempted murder. Jason Billingsley, who is charged...