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Man who followed woman into her NYC apartment and stabbed her to death pleads guilty to murder
NEW YORK (AP) — A man pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday for stabbing a woman to death after following her from the street into her lower Manhattan apartment building. Assamad Nash, 27, also pleaded guilty to burglary as a sexually motivated felony in the Feb. 13, 2022, attack on...
10 alleged Minneapolis gang members are charged in ongoing federal violent crime crackdown
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ten alleged members of a Minneapolis gang accused of “terrorizing” a city neighborhood have been charged with a range of federal crimes including possession of a machine gun and drug trafficking, law enforcement officials announced Tuesday. The charges are...
Celebrity brushes with the law are not new in the Hamptons. Ask Billy Joel and Martha Stewart
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Justin Timberlake is not the first celebrity to get arrested in the Hamptons. The beach communities on the eastern end of New York's Long Island are popular with the rich and famous, and others have gotten into trouble there, much of it vehicular. Here are a few...
Teen sentenced after pleading guilty to 2022 shooting near Chicago high school that killed 2 teens
CHICAGO (AP) — A teenager who pleaded guilty to a 2022 shooting near a Chicago high school that killed two teens and wounded two others has been sentenced to more than four decades in prison. A Cook County judge sentenced Christian Acevedo, 18, after he pleaded guilty Monday to two...
The shooter who killed 5 at a Colorado LGBTQ+ club pleads guilty to 50 federal hate crimes
DENVER (AP) — The shooter who killed five people and injured 19 others at an LGBTQ+ club that was a refuge in the conservative city of Colorado Springs pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges and was sentenced to 55 life terms in prison on Tuesday, but once again declined to apologize or say...
Singer Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons
SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York's Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat. The boy band singer-turned-solo star and actor...
Lawyer for man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie says client doesn't want offered plea deal
MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie is not interested in an offered plea deal that would shorten his time in state prison but expose him to federal prison on a separate terrorism-related charge, his lawyer said Tuesday. ...
Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn pleads not guilty in Arizona’s fake elector case
PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis and former U.S. Senate candidate James Lamon have pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in a case about trying to overturn former President Donald Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden. The hearing Tuesday in a...
15-year-old girl shot to death hours before her middle school graduation, authorities say
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A 21-year-old man has been arrested and charged with fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl hours before she was scheduled to attend her middle school graduation in Massachusetts, authorities said. Not guilty pleas were entered in court Tuesday on behalf of...
Victims' advocate Miriam Shehane dies at age 91
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Miriam Shehane, who founded a victims' rights movement after the 1976 killing of her daughter, died Monday. She was 91. Shehane founded the Victims of Crime and Leniency and for decades led a victims’ rights movement that reshaped Alabama’s judicial and...
