Weekend clash at Oklahoma prison leaves 4 dead, 4 hurt
By SEAN MURPHY Four inmates died of injuries sustained during an attack or fight over the weekend at an Oklahoma prison, officials said, and investigators are trying to determine what…
Homicide
Hunt for 3 suspects in Illinois officer’s death continues
Law enforcement officials broadened the hunt Wednesday for three suspects in the fatal shooting of a popular veteran police officer in a small northern Illinois community. Lake County Sheriff’s Office…
The war room, the street: 2 responses to Baltimore violence
By JULIET LINDERMAN There are only three rules at the Kids Safe Zone: Sign in, clean up after yourself, and read for 15 minutes before playing with the toys stacked…
Deputy ambushed, fatally shot at Houston gas station
By JUAN A. LOZANO The search for the suspect in the death of a uniformed sheriff’s deputy who was shot several times while filling up his patrol car at a…
Bangladesh arrests 2 more suspects in blogger’s killing
By JULHAS ALAM Police in Bangladesh have arrested two more suspected members of a banned militant group thought to be behind the slaying of a secular blogger in the fourth…
Oklahoma politician killed by son with wife nearby
By SEAN MURPHY A man charged with killing his father, who was Oklahoma’s labor commissioner, repeatedly stabbed him with a large kitchen knife in the neck and head at a…
Jury selection begins in Kansas Jewish site shootings
An avowed white supremacist who admitted that he killed three people outside of two Kansas Jewish sites seemed upbeat as jury selection began in his capital murder trial. Frazier Glenn…
Governor: Vermont mom is ‘alleged perpetrator’ in 4 deaths
By DAVE GRAM and LISA RATHKE A woman who lost custody of her 9-year-old daughter killed three relatives in a Vermont home and then headed to a nearby state office…