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More charges filed against 2 teens held in fatal bicyclist hit-and-run video case in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors filed additional criminal charges Monday against two teenagers being held as adults in the video-recorded killing of a retired former Southern California police chief as he rode his bicycle on a Las Vegas road. The teens, ages 18 and 16, are due in...
A trial opens in France over the killing of a police couple in the name of the Islamic State group
LYON, France (AP) — It wasn’t the deadliest attack in Europe linked to the Islamic State group, but it was among the most disturbing: One evening in 2016, an assailant killed two police officers in their family home, in front of their 3-year-old son. On Monday, a trial opened in...
Man sentenced to life again in 2011 slaying of aspiring rapper in New Jersey
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison again in the murder of an aspiring rapper authorities said was shot and killed before his body was set on fire in New Jersey a dozen years ago. Randy Manning was convicted in a June retrial of murder, arson,...
An Iowa man who failed to show up for the guilty verdict at his murder trial has been arrested
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man who failed to show up for the guilty verdict at his murder trial has been found and taken into custody, state officials announced Saturday. In a brief statement, the Iowa Department of Public Safety thanked everyone who provided information that led...
Jailhouse letter adds wrinkle in case of mom accused of killing husband, then writing kids' book
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Jailhouse writings by a Utah mother accused of killing her husband, then writing a children’s book about death, have led prosecutors to accuse her of trying to tamper with witnesses, an allegation that her attorneys say is baseless. A relative of Kouri...
Jury convicts ex-NFL draft prospect of fatally shooting man at Mississippi casino
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A former NFL draft prospect has been found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for shooting a man to death on the floor of a casino on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Jurors deliberated for only 46 minutes Thursday before reaching a guilty...
Iowa man disappears on the day a jury finds him guilty of killing his wife
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Police were searching for an Iowa man who failed to show up at his first-degree murder trial on Friday, the day a jury found him guilty of killing his wife. A judge issued an arrest warrant for Gregory Showalter Sr. of Ottumwa after he missed the reading of the...
Mother gets 78-year prison term for killing daughters, 15 and 5, in Virginia
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia mother who sedated her two daughters with melatonin-laced gummy bears before fatally shooting them was sentenced Friday to 78 years in prison. Veronica Youngblood, 38, was arrested in August 2018 after shooting daughters Sharon Castro, 15,...
Prosecutors seek to show enhanced bodycam video of Elijah McClain's fatal encounter with police
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Colorado prosecutors focused on police body camera footage — both raw and digitally enhanced — as they began building their case Thursday against two officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who was stopped, put in a neck hold and sedated with...
9 deputies charged in death of man beaten in Memphis jail, including 2 for second-degree murder
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two Memphis jail deputies have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Black man who was having a psychotic episode and died in custody last fall after jailers punched, kicked and kneeled on his back during a confrontation, according to court documents...
