Crime

Two men have been charged with murder more than a year after a college student was killed by a stray bullet as she was working at a bar in south Georgia, authorities said while announcing multiple other related arrests in a wide-ranging indictment of alleged gang members. Tsion Clayton, 23, …

A toddler is believed to have fatally shot his mother in their California apartment, police in Fresno said on Monday.  The 2-and-a-half-year-old boy was at home with his 18-month-old sibling, his 22-year-old mother and his mother’s boyfriend when he got ahold of a gun, Lt. Paul Cervantes said during a …

The fourth of six Mississippi former law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to subjecting two Black men to racially motivated torture in January 2023 was sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday.  Christian Dedmon, a former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in torturing …

For years, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh looked his anguished clients in the eyes and promised to help them with their medical bills, their suffering or simply to survive. Then he stole some, if not all, of what he won for many of them. Those clients got to look Murdaugh …

A teenage driver was in custody Wednesday on suspicion of striking three bicyclists, killing one, in a Southern California beach city last weekend, in what police called a “series of intentional hit-and-run incidents.”  In the first hit-and-run collision, a bicyclist said a black Toyota sideswiped him around 10:30 p.m Sunday night in …

Police in Northern California have solved a gruesome cold case murder more than three decades after it happened.  Vicki Johnson was killed on Jan. 3, 1991 in Seaside, a city previously known as East Monterey. Johnson’s body was found near a playground in the city’s Sabado Park neighborhood after she …

Four Mexican nationals have been arrested in Texas for their roles in the 2022 tractor-trailer smuggling incident that left 53 migrants — including eight children and one pregnant woman — dead, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. It is believed to be the deadliest human smuggling case in modern U.S. history. …

A woman accused of abandoning her infant in a box beside a South Carolina highway in 2008 will serve four years in prison. Thursday’s sentencing wraps up a case that had gone cold until police arrested Jennifer Sahr three years ago in the death of the newborn known as “Baby …

A man has been arrested for a string of shootings that left four people dead in Mesa and Phoenix, Arizona, police said Sunday.  Iren Byers, 20, was taken into custody in connection with four shootings late Friday night in Mesa that left three people dead and one person hospitalized, the …

A limousine service manager was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday in one of the deadliest U.S. road wrecks of the past two decades. Nauman Hussain ran Prestige Limousine when a stretch limo packed with revelers for a woman’s 30th birthday party went off the road after the vehicle’s brakes failed in …