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Appeals stretch 4 decades for a prisoner convicted on little police evidence
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (AP) — The four men who put Steve Szarewicz away for murder all changed their stories at one time or another, yet Szarewicz still sits behind bars. That's where he has been for almost 43 years. A jury convicted him of killing Billy Merriwether, 25, who was shot...
Appeals stretch 4 decades for a prisoner convicted on little police evidence
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (AP) — The four men who put Steve Szarewicz away for murder all changed their stories at one time or another, yet Szarewicz still sits behind bars. That's where he has been for almost 43 years. A jury convicted him of killing Billy Merriwether, 25, who was shot...
Suspect killed and 2 Georgia officers wounded in shooting during suspected gun store burglary
SMYRNA, Ga. (AP) — Two Georgia police officers were wounded and a man was killed during a shooting inside a suburban Atlanta retailer that calls itself the world's largest gun store. Smyrna Police Chief Keith Zgonc said the officers were investigating reports of gunfire and a...
The first US Peace Corps volunteers return to El Salvador since leaving in 2016 because of violence
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — U.S. Peace Corps volunteers returned to El Salvador Friday for the first time since the American force left in 2016 because of violence in the Central American country. It was the latest sign of a thaw in U.S. relations with El Salvador, whose...
Blood-spatter analysis helped investigation into husband charged with killing wife and another man
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Expert bloodstain-pattern and forensic analysis helped investigators pursue charges against a Virginia husband accused of killing his wife and another man at the married couple’s Fairfax County home, prosecutors said Friday. Earlier this month, a grand jury...
Indianapolis man sentenced to 189 years for killing 3 young men found along a path
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 19-year-old man convicted in the fatal shootings of three young men found dead along a path in Indianapolis was sentenced Friday to 189 years in prison. A Marion County judge sentenced Caden Smith about a month after a jury convicted the Indianapolis man of...
Mother pleads guilty in the death of her 5-year-old son whose body was found in a park
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the 2021 death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and neglected, weighing just 19 pounds when his body was found buried in a Massachusetts park, prosecutors said. Danielle...
2 boys in Britain jailed for killing a man with a machete when they were 12
LONDON (AP) — Two boys in Britain who were 12 when they stabbed a stranger to death with a machete were sentenced on Friday to at least eight and a half years in prison. They are the youngest people convicted of murder in the U.K. for more than 20 years. The now 13-year-old...
5 executions have happened over a week's span in the US. That's the most in decades
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S. The first execution was carried out on...
Memphis man gets life sentence for killing rapper Young Dolph
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Justin Johnson was found guilty of murder in the death of rapper Young Dolph on Thursday after the jury heard testimony from a co-defendant that the killing was part of a feud between rival record labels. Jurors deliberated for just under four hours before...
