Protest over Chicago teen’s shooting set for retail district
By DON BABWIN After days of protests in Chicago since the release of a video showing a black teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer, demonstrators were poised…
Homicide
The Latest: Chicago activists call for Black Friday protest
The latest on the aftermath of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer (all times local): 1:45 p.m. A group of activists is calling for…
Authorities: Illinois officer ‘staged suicide,’ after crimes
By DON BABWIN A northern Illinois police officer whose fatal shooting triggered a large manhunt carefully staged his death to make it look like he was killed in the line…
Justices review DA’s choice of all-white murder trial jury
By MARK SHERMAN and KATE BRUMBACK Prosecutor Stephen Lanier’s meaning was unmistakable when he urged jurors in north Georgia to sentence the defendant to death in part to deter other…
Man who says he was cartel enforcer pleads guilty to murders
By SCOTT SMITH A man who says he was a cartel enforcer pleaded guilty Tuesday to nine counts of murder in California after acknowledging to investigators that he had committed…
Mass shootings grab headlines, but others go under radar
By RIK STEVENS The numbers jump off the page: Nine dead on an Oregon college campus, 12 in a theater in Aurora, Colorado. Thirteen soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood,…
Only woman on Georgia’s death row executed; 1st in 70 years
By KATE BRUMBACK The only woman on Georgia’s death row was executed early Wednesday, making her the first woman put to death by the state in seven decades. Kelly Renee…
Suspect in 2 Mississippi killings dies of apparent suicide
By JEFF AMY and ROGELIO SOLIS After an intense manhunt, authorities in Mississippi said a college instructor wanted in the deaths of a woman he lived with and a university…