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Campus cameras showed a student leaving his Ole Miss apartment the day he disappeared
Security cameras captured video of a University of Mississippi student leaving his campus apartment twice on the morning he was last seen alive, University Police Department Capt. Jane Mahan testified Wednesday in the trial of the man accused of killing the student. Jimmy “Jay”...
With 13 newcomers, South Carolina Senate may tackle tough issues
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With the largest number of newly elected members at least since World War II, Republican South Carolina Senate leaders are thinking about tackling some issues like tax reform that have long been too tough to handle. The 13 new senators — nine Republicans and...
Trump seeks to have Georgia election case dismissed, citing presidential immunity
ATLANTA (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is trying to get the Georgia election interference case against him dismissed, asserting that the state's courts will not have jurisdiction over him once he returns to the White House next month. The Georgia case against Trump and others...
District of Columbia says Amazon secretly stopped fast deliveries to 2 predominantly Black ZIP codes
The District of Columbia sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging the company secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents of two predominantly Black neighborhoods while still charging millions of dollars for a membership that promises the benefit. The complaint...
Prosecutor moves to clear 4 Ohio men convicted in 1991 killing
Four men who have maintained their innocence the past three decades since being charged and convicted in the beating death of an Ohio woman could soon be exonerated. Two of the men have remained in prison since the mid-1990s while the other two spent more than 25 years behind bars...
An ex-officer who died in an apparent suicide before his federal trial was barred from having a gun
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former police detective in Kansas who died in an apparent suicide as he was about to stand trial on civil rights violations for allegedly sexually assaulting and terrorizing vulnerable women for decades wasn't supposed to have a gun while he was under house arrest. ...
Michigan court upholds light sentence for woman who killed dad in dispute over ride
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals declined to overturn a light jail sentence for a young woman who killed her father by burning him with a dangerous powder when he couldn't drive her to a hair appointment before her 18th birthday party. Megan Imirowicz, now 21, was...
Judge says Louisiana State Police must follow city law to conduct homeless sweeps
A New Orleans judge on Tuesday indefinitely prohibited the Louisiana State Police from conducting sweeps on homeless encampments in New Orleans without issuing adequate notice, as required by city law. The preliminary injunction, issued by Civil District Court Judge Ethel Julien,...
Trial date set for Virginia man accused of killing his missing wife
MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man accused of killing his wife, whose body has still not been found, will go trial in September, a judge ruled Wednesday. Naresh Bhatt, 37, of Manassas Park, was indicted earlier this week on charges of murder and defiling the body of his wife,...
Man convicted in Laken Riley's killing asks for a new trial
ATLANTA (AP) — The Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and sentenced to serve life in prison without parole has requested a new trial. Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard found Jose Ibarra guilty of murder and other...
