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Police: DC officer killed by wife in apparent murder-suicide
WALDORF, Md. (AP) — A Maryland woman fatally shot her police officer husband and then killed herself, authorities said. The Charles County Sheriff's Office said that police found two people dead inside their home in Waldorf on Friday. Police said they found evidence that the woman had shot her husband and...
2 shot, killed at Northern California mall on Black Friday
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police are looking for a gunman who shot and killed two teens at a Northern California mall in the midst of Black Friday, sending shoppers running for safety, authorities said. Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento was evacuated shortly after 6 p.m. when shots were fired near one of the...
Prosecutors not seeking death penalty in Sweetie Pie case
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Wednesday they won't seek the death penalty against two people tied to the 2016 killing of a man whose grandmother’s St. Louis-area soul food restaurant was the setting for the reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s.” The slain...
Kansas City police investigate deadly Thanksgiving shooting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police are investigating the latest deadly shooting in Kansas City, Missouri. Officers responding to a call about shots fired found a man suffering from apparent gunshot wound shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday, the Kansas City Police Department said in a news release. He was taken to...
Police, anti-crime group seek tips in Chicago boy's shooting
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago anti-violence group has offered a $10,000 reward for information that could lead to an arrest in a drive-by shooting that critically wounded a 5-year-old boy inside his home, saying someone must know who the shooter is. Early Walker, a founder of I’m Telling, Don’t...
Court ruling cuts sentence for Quebec mosque shooter
QUEBEC CITY (AP) — Quebec’s highest court has declared consecutive life sentences to be unconstitutional, reducing the sentence given to the man who murdered six people in a Quebec City mosque in 2017. Alexandre Bissonnette, 30, was sentenced in February 2019 to life in prison with no possibility of...
San Antonio police kill man in trailer park fire, shootout
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio police have shot and killed a man who fired on officers and set his trailer on fire, the city's police chief said. A SWAT team and other officers were sent to a trailer park on the Texas city's northeast side around 9 p.m. Wednesday after people reported a man firing a gun...
Rights groups decry attacks on Pakistan's minority Ahmadis
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Three international human rights groups on Thursday denounced recent attacks on Pakistan's minority Ahmadi community and asked Islamabad to “urgently and impartially investigate a surge" in violence. The joint appeal from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the...
Lawyer: Man was stunned before DEA shot him 3 times
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A man who was fatally shot in a confrontation with federal agents had stumbled into a Springfield drug investigation, an attorney for the man's family said. Craig Lowther, a lawyer hired by Caleb Slay’s mother to look into his Nov. 2 death, said the confrontation happened...
VIRUS TODAY: Americans travel as Biden addresses nation
Here's what's happening Wednesday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.: — Millions of Americans are traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday despite warnings from health officials that family gatherings could make a bad situation worse. — More people are applying for unemployment benefits as the...
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