Connecticut’s top court hears Kennedy cousin murder case
By DAVE COLLINS Connecticut’s highest court was hearing arguments Wednesday on whether Kennedy cousin Kennedy should get a new trial or be sent back to prison for a 1975 murder.…
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Gun shop owner: Suspect bought jacket before Kalamazoo shootings
By DAVID R. MARTIN A gun shop owner says the man charged in the Kalamazoo shootings came into his store hours before the rampage and bought a jacket with an…
6 killed in Michigan parking lot shootings; suspect arrested
By JEFF KAROUB A gunman who authorities believe chose victims at random shot people in the parking lots of a western Michigan apartment complex, car dealership and restaurant, killing at…
1 officer dead, 3 wounded in Mississippi shooting
One law enforcement officer was killed and three were injured early Saturday after an hourslong standoff in rural north Mississippi ended in gunfire, authorities said. Also killed was the man…
Nigeria: People detained by military disappear in northeast
First come the whispers, then accusations loud enough to raise alarms throughout Nigeria’s northeastern villages ravaged by extremist violence. Next, people accused of being Boko Haram are rounded up, sometimes…
Last of ‘Angola Three’ inmates released, thanks supporters
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and KEVIN McGILL The last inmate of a group known as the “Angola Three” pleaded no contest Friday to manslaughter in the 1972 death of a prison…
US fight over gunman’s locked iPhone could have big impact
By ERIC TUCKER and TAMI ABDOLLAH A U.S. magistrate’s order for Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by the gunman in the mass shooting in…
2 deputies wounded, suspect dead in shopping center shootout
By JULIET LINDERMAN A man shot a sheriff’s deputy in the head inside a crowded restaurant at lunchtime Wednesday and wounded another deputy during a shootout, authorities and witnesses said.…