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Haiti now needs up to 5,000 police to help tackle `catastrophic' gang violence , UN expert says

Mar. 28, 2024 20:14 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Haiti now needs between 4,000 and 5,000 international police to help tackle “catastrophic” gang violence which is targeting key individuals and hospitals, schools, banks and other critical institutions, the U.N. rights expert for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nation...

Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

Mar. 28, 2024 19:50 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. ...

Mob in Mexico brutally beats suspected kidnapper hours before Holy Week procession

Mar. 28, 2024 19:32 PM EDT

TAXCO, Mexico (AP) — A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco on Thursday brutally beat a woman they suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, just hours before the city’s famous Holy Week procession. On the eve of Good Friday, men walk through the colonial streets of...

A decade after deaths of 2 Boston firefighters, senators pass bill to toughen oversight

Mar. 28, 2024 19:25 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — A decade after two firefighters died when they became trapped in a brownstone in Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood by a fire caused by sparks from welders working next door, the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at toughening oversight of so-called “hot...

Alex Murdaugh's lawyers say FBI agent's mention of Joran van der Sloot led to failed polygraph test

Mar. 28, 2024 19:22 PM EDT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh said an FBI agent conducting a polygraph test that the agency said the convicted killer flunked asked odd questions and confided he had just examined the notorious Dutch killer of an Alabama teen, throwing the results off. The...

Oklahoma judge rules death row inmate not competent to be executed

Mar. 28, 2024 18:42 PM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge ruled Thursday that a death row inmate is not competent to be executed for his role in the 1999 slayings of a mother and son. Pittsburg County Judge Michael Hogan issued an order in the case involving 61-year-old James Ryder in that county. ...

South Dakota officials to investigate state prison 'disturbance' in Sioux Falls

Mar. 28, 2024 18:32 PM EDT

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota officials said Thursday they will investigate a “disturbance” at a state prison in Sioux Falls that they say resulted in at least one officer getting assaulted the day before. “I have directed the South Dakota Division of Criminal...

4th person charged in ambush that helped Idaho prison inmate escape from Boise hospital

Mar. 28, 2024 18:21 PM EDT

A fourth person has been charged in connection with an ambush that allowed a white supremacist Idaho prison gang member to escape as he was being discharged from a Boise hospital. Tia J. Garcia, 27, of Twin Falls, owned the car that inmate Skylar Meade and his accomplice, Nicholas...

Suspect charged with murder, attempted murder in deadly Rockford rampage

Mar. 28, 2024 17:50 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in a frenzied stabbing and beating rampage that left four people dead in a matter of minutes in a northern Illinois city, authorities said Thursday. Christian Soto is also charged with seven...

Maine lawmakers to consider late 'red flag' proposal after state's deadliest shooting

Mar. 28, 2024 17:21 PM EDT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers racing toward adjournment are going to consider a so-called “red flag” law allowing family members to petition a judge for temporary removal of guns, thanks to an eleventh-hour bill introduced by the house leader. House Speaker Rachel...