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$1.8 billion isn't missing after all in South Carolina but questions remain about accounting error
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It turns out that $1.8 billion in South Carolina state funds weren't just sitting in a bank account waiting to be spent. Instead, it was an accounting error compounded over years instead of being reconciled, an independent forensic audit determined. The...
Hawaii law enforcement ask lawmakers for staff and money to crack down on illegal fireworks
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities on Tuesday asked lawmakers for $5.2 million to hire eight people and expand a forensic lab to crack down on the persistent rampant smuggling of illegal fireworks like those that killed four people and injured about 20 more at a Honolulu home on New Year’s Eve....
2 autopsies for Black man found hanging in Alabama produce differing conclusions
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state autopsy has ruled that a Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home in late September died by suicide — a conclusion that contradicts a private autopsy commissioned by his family, which found no definitive evidence he died by suicide. ...
Mexican investigators find 12 bodies in clandestine graves in the northern border state of Chihuahua
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators in Mexico announced Thursday they have found 12 bodies in clandestine burial sites in the northern border state of Chihuahua. State prosecutors said the skeletal remains were found in the township of Ascencion, about 110 miles (180 kms) west of...
Doctor arrested in Germany over patients' deaths now suspected of 8 killings
BERLIN (AP) — A doctor who was arrested in Berlin in August is now suspected of killing eight patients and in some cases trying to cover up the evidence by setting fires, investigators said Thursday. The unidentified doctor, who was part of a nursing service's palliative care team,...
The unnamed dead of Honolulu may be revealed through DNA testing
Some were crime victims. Others lived and died in solitude. Some may have been lost hikers, runaway children, or wanderers. One thing connects the 58 or so remains at the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office found with no identification card and no next of kin to...
Pathologist disputes finding that Marine veteran's chokehold caused subway rider's death
NEW YORK (AP) — For roughly six minutes, Jordan Neely was pinned to a subway floor in a chokehold that ended with him lying still. But that's not what killed him, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday in defense of the military-trained commuter charged with killing Neely. Dr....
