A California appellate court overturned a murder conviction based on 2022 state legislation that limits the use of rap videos as evidence. Travon Venable Sr of San Bernadino was convicted of first-degree murder for a 2019 drive-by shooting that killed one person and wounded another. He was sentenced to a …
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A 9-year-old girl and a local TV news reporter were among three people killed and two others wounded in shootings in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday, authorities and the TV station involved said. Keith Melvin Moses, 19, has been arrested in connection with the shootings, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said …
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A suspect is now under arrest in the death of a New Jersey kindergarten teacher, CBS New York’s Zinnia Maldonado reports. The body of 33-year-old Luz Hernandez was found Tuesday in Kearny, a day after she was reported missing. The Hudson County prosecutor’s office announced an arrest overnight. No details …
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Los Angeles — Police on Thursday said there isn’t any evidence that a mass shooting was planned by a man who stockpiled guns and ammunition in his Hollywood high-rise apartment. Braxton Johnson was taken into custody Tuesday after he allegedly made violent threats to security staff at the apartment building …
Read More »A 27-year-old man in Colorado went missing a day before the state’s new Missing Indigenous Person Alerts system went live on Dec. 30. One week later, he was found dead. A Missing Indigenous Person Alert for Wanbli Vigil was issued Jan. 3, four days after the system went live. The …
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A serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” admitted Monday to killing a 23-year-old woman outside a Long Island shopping mall in 1968 and four other women decades ago. Richard Cottingham was arraigned earlier this year on a second-degree murder charge in connection with Diane Cusick’s death during a trip …
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A man sentenced to death for the killing and dismemberment of a Nebraska woman he met through the dating app Tinder lost his initial appeal in which he argued he should have been granted a mistrial after violently disrupting his own trial. The Nebraska Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the …
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The Connecticut police officers who were fatally shot on Wednesday appear to have been tricked to respond to a home by a fake 911 call, state police said Thursday. Police officials said preliminary information suggests that the call, which reported a domestic violence incident between siblings at a home in …
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A man convicted of raping and killing a woman 36 years ago on Minnesota’s Iron Range was sentenced Friday to life in prison. Michael Allan Carbo Jr., 54, of Chisholm, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder while committing criminal sexual conduct in the 1986 slaying of 38-year-old Nancy …
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A 31-year-old man is facing federal hate crime charges in connection with a string of shootings in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, in which two homeless men were wounded and a third homeless man was killed, authorities announced Wednesday. The same suspect is also under investigation in the shootings of …
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