Victims conflicted over death penalty for theater gunman
By SADIE GURMAN Marcus Weaver spent nearly three years talking openly about forgiving the man who shot him, killed his friend and caused untold suffering. As a Christian opposed to…
Homicide
Israeli arrested after West Bank arson that killed toddler
By DANIEL ESTRIN Israel said Tuesday it was interrogating the suspected head of a Jewish extremist group in the first arrest of an Israeli suspect following last week’s arson attack…
Fatal police shooting in Wal-Mart under review 1 year later
By KANTELE FRANKO A year after a 22-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer while carrying an air rifle in an Ohio Wal-Mart, federal officials’ review of…
Police: Birthday cake beating followed week of handcuffing
A 9-year-old boy who was fatally beaten over a missing birthday cake had been handcuffed for up to three hours a day for a week before the deadly assault, according…
Land agency: Agent’s gun may have been used in pier slaying
By PAUL ELIAS The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is investigating whether an agent’s gun was used in the shooting death of a woman walking on a popular San Francisco…
APNewsBreak: Tunisia beach killer trained with museum gunmen
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA The young college student that murdered 38 tourists in a Tunisian seaside resort was in a jihadi training camp in western Libya at the same time…
NY Gov. Cuomo: Captured convict ‘critical but stable’
By MICHAEL BALSAMO The escaped murderer who was shot by a state trooper near the Canadian border is in “critical but stable” condition at an Albany hospital, New York Gov.…
Across US, over 130 prison escapees on the loose
By JENNIFER PELTZ Somewhere out there are an admitted killer who crawled through a Texas prison’s ventilation ducts, a murderer who apparently escaped from an Indiana institution in a garbage…