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North Carolina man jailed on 300 counts of child sex crimes
RAEFORD, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has been apprehended and charged with more than 300 counts of sex crimes involving children, a sheriff said. Joshuah Taylor Bradshaw of Raeford was apprehended in Etta, Mississippi, by the FBI last Thursday and extradited to North Carolina, Sheriff Hubert Peterkin...
Vanessa Bryant sues LA sheriff over helicopter crash photos
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vanessa Bryant, the widow of basketball star Kobe Bryant, has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County sheriff claiming deputies shared unauthorized photos of the crash that killed her husband, their 13-year-old daughter and seven others. After the Jan. 26 crash, reports surfaced...
Jailed Morocco journalist probed by court on rape charge
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan journalist and human rights activist held by authorities for weeks on charges of undermining state security, receiving foreign funding and rape, appeared before an investigating judge in Casablanca on Tuesday. Omar Radi's hearing focused on the charges of “indecent...
City restricts access before decision in Breonna Taylor case
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials in Kentucky’s largest city were preparing Tuesday for more protests and possible unrest as the city nervously awaits the state attorney general’s announcement about whether he will charge officers in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death. With timing of the...
Man dies, hours after being shot by St. Louis County police
BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. (AP) — A man who was shot by St. Louis County detectives after allegedly pointing a handgun at them died Tuesday, hours after a violent confrontation in the town of Bellefontaine Neighbors. The man killed was identified as Patches Holmes, 26. Police spokesman Tracy Panus said...
2 wounded in workplace shooting, suspect in custody
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — A shooter opened fire and wounded two people outside a Connecticut business Tuesday before being taken into custody on a highway in Massachusetts, police said. Both victims were treated at a hospital and discharged. One of the victims called 911 at about 8:45 a.m. to report a...
New Hampshire white nationalist on trial over rape threats
CONCORD, N.H (AP) — A white nationalist who rose to prominence during a deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, went on trial Tuesday on federal charges of threatening to rape the wife of a man who was part of a racist group he had been feuding with for months. Christopher Cantwell, a New Hampshire...
Video released of man shot to death by Sacramento police
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California have released body camera video of a fatal shooting where the West Sacramento Police Department shot and killed a former department employee who had been struggling with mental illness. Robert Coleman, 88, was shot by officers on Sept. 12 around...
Second suspect pleads no contest in beheading case; no trial
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has pleaded no contest after he and one other were accused of decapitating another man in 2017, authorities said. Donald Ray Cherry, 34, changed his plea Monday in Yellowstone County District Court to deliberate homicide under a deal that dismissed charges of witness...
Border Patrol: Agent fatally shot person after being stabbed
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot someone who stabbed the agent multiple times in southern Arizona, authorities said. It happened Monday evening as the agent was patrolling on foot east of Nogales and had arrested a group of people who were in the U.S. illegally, the Border...
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