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A Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and 2 others dies in prison, officials say
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and two other people more than 40 years ago has died in prison, officials said. Paul Beasley Johnson, 74, died Saturday while receiving ongoing medical treatment while in the custody of the Union...
New Baltimore police commissioner confirmed by City Council despite recent challenges
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore City Council on Monday confirmed Richard Worley as the city’s new police commissioner, a leadership change that comes amid an ongoing push for reform of the embattled agency that began after Freddie Gray’s 2015 death. Mayor Brandon Scott nominated...
A man suspected of fatally shooting 3 people is shot and killed by police in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police officers on Monday shot and killed a man suspected in a quadruple shooting hours earlier that left three people dead, authorities said. Shortly before 5 a.m., officers were called to a home in the Lawncrest section of northeast Philadelphia....
2 Indianapolis officers plead not guilty after indictment for shooting Black man asleep in car
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers indicted for shooting a Black man who was sleeping in a car outside his grandmother’s house entered not guilty pleas Monday. Officers Carl Chandler and Alexander Gregory entered the pleas to charges of...
GBI investigating fatal shooting of armed man by officers who say he was making threats
AILEY, Ga. (AP) — Authorities in rural southeast Georgia fatally shot a man who was armed with a gun and had made threats against law enforcement officers, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Monday. GBI agents are investigating the death late Sunday at the end of a five-hour...
Man who sought to expose sexual predators fatally shot during argument in Detroit-area restaurant
A 40-year-old Detroit-area man who posed as a 15-year-old girl on social media to identify alleged sexual predators has been fatally shot during an argument in a restaurant. Police arrested two males, ages 17 and 18, Saturday in Friday night's slaying of Robert Wayne Lee of Pontiac,...
Deputy wounded, man killed in gunfire exchange during Knoxville domestic disturbance call
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A deputy was seriously wounded and a man was killed after exchanging gunfire while authorities were responding to a domestic disturbance at a home in Tennessee. Deputies with the Knox County Sheriff's Office encountered an armed man after responding to a...
2 women killed and 2 men wounded in Houston shooting, sheriff says
HOUSTON (AP) — A woman and her daughter-in-law were killed and two men hospitalized with gunshot wounds in a shooting authorities believe stemmed from a romantic dispute, a Houston-area sheriff said Sunday. A small child escaped the gunfire unharmed. Deputies were...
10 Cuban migrants are killed in a freight truck crash in southern Mexico, 17 seriously injured
TAPACHULA, Chiapas (AP) — At least 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others were seriously injured after a freight truck they were riding in crashed on a highway in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala. The National Immigration Institute said all of the dead Cuban migrants...
Man who served time in Ohio murder-for-hire case convicted in shooting of Pennsylvania trooper
A man who served time in a high-profile murder-for-hire case in Ohio nearly two decades ago has been convicted of shooting a state trooper in a western Pennsylvania convenience store last year. Jurors in Beaver County last week deliberated for more than five hours before convicting...
