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FBI says an infant abducted from New Mexico park has been found safe and suspect is in custody

May. 06, 2024 19:44 PM EDT

CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — A Texas man has been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of two New Mexico women, the wounding of a 5-year-old girl and the kidnapping of an infant, authorities said Monday. Clovis police said the 26-year-old man from the Houston area was taken into...

Husband of Florida woman missing in Spain is charged with her disappearance

May. 06, 2024 16:59 PM EDT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The estranged husband of a Florida woman who disappeared three months ago in Spain has been charged by U.S. federal agents with her kidnapping. The FBI and other federal agents arrested David Knezevich at Miami International Airport on Saturday. The...

Pennsylvania man convicted of kidnapping a woman, driving her to a Nevada desert and suffocating her

May. 02, 2024 13:48 PM EDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who authorities say killed his girlfriend in a Nevada desert has been convicted. A jury in U.S. District Court in Nevada on Wednesday found John Matthew Chapman, 44, guilty of one count of kidnapping resulting in death, court records show. He...

Abducted retired Catholic bishop who mediated between cartels in Mexico is located, hospitalized

Apr. 29, 2024 22:27 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico was located and taken to a hospital after apparently being briefly kidnapped, the Mexican Council of Bishops said Monday. The church leadership in Mexico said in a...

Libya demands improvements after leaked photos show tiny cell of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Beirut

Apr. 29, 2024 15:49 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Leaked photographs of the son of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the tiny underground cell where he has been held for years in Lebanon have raised concerns in the north African nation as Libyan authorities demand improvements. The photos showed a room...

Two more people sentenced for carjacking and kidnapping an FBI employee in South Dakota

Apr. 29, 2024 11:06 AM EDT

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The last two members of a trio who carjacked and kidnapped an FBI employee in South Dakota in 2022 have been sentenced to lengthy prison sentences. Deyvin Morales, 29, was sentenced Friday to 47 years in prison, the Rapid City Journal reported. At the same...

Armed men kidnap a senior judge in Pakistan’s restive northwest

Apr. 28, 2024 14:51 PM EDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Armed men ambushed and kidnapped a senior judge in Pakistan’s restive northwest, a police official said Sunday. Around 15 men on motorbikes intercepted Judge Shakirullah Marwat’s vehicle as he was traveling toward Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber...

Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer

Apr. 28, 2024 01:26 AM EDT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — At age 75, one of Latin America’s most storied journalists had been looking forward to weaving into books the fragmented threads of more than four decades of investigative reporting that exposed high-level abuse of power in Peru and abroad. In an illustrious...

Philippine police kill an Abu Sayyaf militant implicated in 15 beheadings and other atrocities

Apr. 26, 2024 06:15 AM EDT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine forces killed an Abu Sayyaf militant, who had been implicated in past beheadings, including of 10 Filipino marines and two kidnapped Vietnamese, in a clash in the south, police officials said Friday. Philippine police, backed by military...

Oklahoma prosecutors charge fifth member of anti-government group in Kansas women's killings

Apr. 24, 2024 19:25 PM EDT

GUYMON, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors charged a fifth member of an anti-government group on Wednesday with killing and kidnapping two Kansas women. Paul Jeremiah Grice, 31, was charged in Texas County with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and...