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Libyan authorities order detention of militia leader over killing of UN-sanctioned human trafficker
CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chief prosecutor ordered the detention of a militia leader and one of his aides pending an investigation into the killing of one of the country’s most notorious human traffickers. Mohamed Bahroun, commander of the First Support Battalion and an influential...
Mother of Georgia shooting suspect called school to warn of emergency, aunt says
The mother of the 14-year-old who has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of four people at his Georgia high school called the school before the killings, warning staff of an “extreme emergency” involving her son, a relative said. Annie Brown told the Washington Post...
What we know after a 14-year-old boy was charged with killing 4 people at his Georgia high school.
A 14-year-old boy stands charged with four counts of murder, accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers this week at his high school in Georgia. Colt Gray had his first hearing Friday after being charged as an adult in the latest mass shooting at a...
Utah sheriff's deputy stalked and killed by her father, prosecutors say
TOOELE, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Utah man with murder Friday, alleging he killed his adult daughter, a Salt Lake City sheriff's deputy. Hector Ramon Martinez-Ayala, 54, of Tooele, confessed in a text message to his brother of making “a big mistake” before fleeing the...
Nevada inmate was pepper-sprayed and held face down before he died. His death was ruled a homicide
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada prisoner died after he was pepper-sprayed by guards, shut in a storage room, shackled and restrained with his face to the ground, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press. Patrick Odale's death on Dec. 28, 2023, at the Southern...
Karen Read says in interview that murder case left her in 'purgatory'
BOSTON (AP) — Karen Read's months-long murder case left her in “purgatory" and ”stressed every day,” she said in an interview set to air Friday night. Read, 44, is accused of ramming into her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead...
An American woman accused of killing 2 of her children fights extradition in a London court
LONDON (AP) — An American woman accused of killing her two youngest children in Colorado last December told her 11-year-old daughter who survived the attack that God made her do it, a prosecutor said in a London court. The girl begged for her life after Kimberlee Singler stabbed...
Man charged with homicide in killing of gymnastics champion Kara Welsh
WHITEWATER, Wis. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the fatal shooting of a national gymnastics champion in his apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus. Chad Richards made an initial appearance Friday via video...
Forced to choose how to die, South Carolina inmate lets lawyer pick lethal injection
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A condemned inmate forced to choose how he'll be put to death ended weeks of suspense by leaving the decision to his lawyer, who reluctantly told South Carolina prison officials on Friday to prepare for a lethal injection, rather than the electric chair or a firing squad. ...
A hitman serving life in prison gets more time for killing ‘Whitey’ Bulger
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A former Mafia hitman already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. Prosecutors said Fotios “Freddy” Geas used a lock attached to a belt to...
