At least 13 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded in multiple mass shootings across the United States this weekend, as lawmakers struggle to respond to the country’s long-running epidemic of gun violence. The shootings came after a spate of mass killings that have sparked renewed calls for …
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A Corona, California woman serving a life sentence for helping murder her mother in 2001 was charged with leading a group that defrauded the state out of millions in unemployment insurance benefits, CBS Los Angeles reports. The Department of Justice charged 13 defendants, five of whom were arrested, for the …
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Mario Batali was found not guilty of indecent assault and battery on Tuesday, following a swift trial in which the celebrity chef waived his right to have a jury decide his fate. Batali, who pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery in 2019, had faced up to 2 1/2 years in …
Read More »New details have surfaced in the lawsuit filed by the parents of Gabby Petito. CBS Miami reports the Petitos amended their lawsuit, alleging that during the search for Gabby, Brian Laundrie’s parents knew their son had killed her and knew “the whereabouts of the body.” Petito disappeared while on a cross-country …
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Huntsville, Texas — Texas’ oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was put to death at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1990 fatal shooting of Houston …
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An intense manhunt ended early Tuesday when federal agents in Washington, D.C. arrested a suspect in the shootings of at least five homeless men there and in Manhattan. Two of the victims were killed. D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert J. Contee III confirmed Tuesday that the suspect is 30-year-old Gerald …
Read More »San Jose, California — Santa Clara County authorities charged former MMA heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez with attempted murder and several other crimes Wednesday for his alleged involvement in a car chase and shooting days before, CBS San Francisco reports. Dozens of Velasquez’s supporters filed into the Santa Clara County Hall …
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