Jury gets case of wife strangled in Detroit suburb
A jury has the case of a former Rotary Club president charged with arranging his wife’s murder while he was having affairs and exploring bondage and masochism with other women…
Homicide
Penalty phase begins for ex-Texas justice of peace
Jurors are considering life in prison or the death penalty for a former justice of the peace convicted of killing a prosecutor’s wife in North Texas. The trial of Eric…
Student’s killing: Girlfriend details home defense
By LISA BAUMANN The girlfriend of a Montana man accused of killing a German exchange student in his garage testified that she kept a baseball bat with her while he…
Police cases converge to stir national debate
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG From the White House to the streets of some of America’s biggest cities, the New York chokehold case converged with the Ferguson shooting and…
Protests erupt as cop cleared; feds to investigate
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG A grand jury cleared a white police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man stopped for selling loose, untaxed…
American couple cleared in daughter’s death leaves Qatar
By ABDULLAH REBHY An American couple cleared of charges in their adopted daughter’s death left the Gulf Arab nation on Wednesday, leaving behind them a nearly two-year saga that climaxed…
VANDALISM, LOOTING AFTER VIGIL FOR MISSOURI Michael Brown
By JIM SALTER and JIM SUHR A man leaves a store on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. A few thousand people crammed a suburban St. Louis street Sunday…
Blackwater guards face trial in Iraq shootings
By PETE YOST Former Blackwater Worldwide guard Nicholas Slatten enters a taxi cab as he leaves federal court in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, after the start of his first-degree…