South Carolina police officer charged with murder is fired
By BRUCE SMITH and JEFFREY COLLINS A white South Carolina police officer who claimed he killed an unarmed black man in self-defense has been fired, the city’s mayor announced Wednesday,…
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States predict inmates’ future crimes with secretive surveys
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and RONNIE GREENE On a hot Friday last July, a parolee was mowing a lawn in a small cul-de-sac on the west side of the city when…
Lawyer: Man accused of luring teen via Facebook not a killer
Attorneys for a Maine man accused of luring a 15-year-old to her death via a fake Facebook page say someone else kidnapped and killed the girl. The trial of Kyle…
Teen neighbor arrested in road-rage killing of Vegas mother
By KEN RITTER Police took an important step toward solving the mystery surrounding the road-rage killing of a Las Vegas mother outside her home, arresting a teenage neighbor who had…
Murder suspect dubbed ‘Michelangelo of buttocks injections’
By MARYCLAIRE DALE A Gothic hip-hop artist who did illegal cosmetic surgery on the side boasted at her murder trial Thursday that her body sculpting work was so popular she…
Attorney: Girl accused in stabbing belongs in juvenile court
By TODD RICHMOND One of two Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man should face a lesser charge in juvenile court because she…
Denmark on edge as 2nd shooting within hours rocks capital
By JAN M. OLSEN and KARL RITTER Police say one of three people shot outside a synagogue in Copenhagen has died in the second of two shootings within hours that…
Hate crime prosecutions rare in NC, often difficult to prove
By MICHAEL BIESECKER Relatives of the three Muslim college students killed in North Carolina are pressing for hate crime charges against the alleged shooter, but legal experts say such cases…