Police: Birthday cake beating followed week of handcuffing
A 9-year-old boy who was fatally beaten over a missing birthday cake had been handcuffed for up to three hours a day for a week before the deadly assault, according…
Violent crime
Land agency: Agent’s gun may have been used in pier slaying
By PAUL ELIAS The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is investigating whether an agent’s gun was used in the shooting death of a woman walking on a popular San Francisco…
APNewsBreak: Tunisia beach killer trained with museum gunmen
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA The young college student that murdered 38 tourists in a Tunisian seaside resort was in a jihadi training camp in western Libya at the same time…
NY Gov. Cuomo: Captured convict ‘critical but stable’
By MICHAEL BALSAMO The escaped murderer who was shot by a state trooper near the Canadian border is in “critical but stable” condition at an Albany hospital, New York Gov.…
Across US, over 130 prison escapees on the loose
By JENNIFER PELTZ Somewhere out there are an admitted killer who crawled through a Texas prison’s ventilation ducts, a murderer who apparently escaped from an Indiana institution in a garbage…
White man sought in killing of 9 people in black church
By ALEX SANZ and RUSS BYNUM An intense manhunt was underway Thursday for a white man who joined a prayer meeting and then opened fire inside a historic black church…
FBI: Man tied to Texas shooting wanted to attack Super Bowl
By RYAN VAN VELZER and JACQUES BILLEAUD Calling him “off-the-charts dangerous,” authorities said a Phoenix man helped orchestrate a shooting at an anti-Islam event in Texas and had aspirations to…
Man accused of dismembering stripper to act as own attorney
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY A man accused of killing and dismembering a stripper after police say he and his girlfriend lured her from a club in the New Orleans French Quarter…