Milwaukee police officers responding to reports of gunfire shot and critically wounded a 20-year-old man overnight after he fled the scene on foot and fired at officers, police said Monday. ILLINOIS SHERIFF’S K-9 INJURED DURING ARREST OF 16-YEAR-OLD WHO CRASHED STOLEN CAR, AUTHORITIES SAY After police received 911 calls about gunshots in the area late Sunday, officers arrived at the …
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A Louisiana man has been arrested and charged in the shooting death of a Georgia man aboard a bus traveling through Mississippi. FORMER MISSISSIPPI OFFICERS GET 10 TO 40 YEARS IN PRISON FOR TORTURE OF 2 BLACK MEN The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Monday that the fatal shooting happened at about 11 p.m. Sunday as …
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He tried to cover his tracks – but within days of the murder of a pregnant Amish woman in front of her other children, police were on his doorstep, according to search warrant returns unsealed over the weekend. The documents, related to the murder of Rebekah Byler in her Sparta Township home, also reveal that she and her husband saw …
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Kern County, California law enforcement officials arrested a man on Friday after he was seen leaving the scene of a deadly train accident while allegedly carrying a severed leg, according to reports. FOX 58 in Bakersfield reported that 27-year-old Resendo Tellez was arrested and charged with removing human remains from a location other than a cemetery. The Kern County Sheriff’s …
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KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — More than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren rescued after more than two weeks in captivity arrived Monday in their home state in northwestern Nigeria ahead of their anticipated reunions with families, following the latest in a series of mass school abductions in the West African nation. Six of the 137 students remain in hospital, and one staff member …
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The friend of a Washington state woman’s husband has been arrested in connection to her killing and her husband is suspected of setting up the murder and staged burglary, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said. On March 23, just before 7 p.m., deputies responded to a home in Hockinson, Washington to a report of a woman who had been found …
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A New York woman was charged Monday with beating her 5-year-old daughter to death nearly three months ago and hiding the body, which has not been found. Latasha Mott, 29, of Syracuse, was arraigned on charges of manslaughter and disposal of a corpse in the death of her daughter, Nefertiti Harris. Prosecutors said Mott hit Nefertiti with a belt multiple …
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Northern California mom Sherri Papini, who was released from federal prison in August after a kidnapping hoax that triggered a national media blitz and costly multi-state search, has failed to pay over $300,000 in restitution and now faces wage garnishment, according to court records. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robin Tubesing filed an application for a writ of garnishment in the amount …
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion at a small hotel located near a police station in northeastern Kenya killed four people, including three officers, and wounded several others on Monday, authorities said. The blast in the town of Mandera, which is on the border with Somalia, was caused by an improvised explosive device that had been planted at the hotel …
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The chief of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons is leaving the job after a series of inmate deaths and escapes. Blanche Carney, who has overseen the city’s four prisons and jails since 2016, told staffers in a letter on Monday that her last day will be April 5, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. A department spokesperson confirmed Carney’s …
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