Crime

Four Florida correctional officers were arrested and charged with murder in the fatal beating of a handcuffed prisoner who had thrown urine at one of the officers, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced. The guards were removing the inmate from a cell in the mental health unit of a …

A 50-year-old fingerprint and information from a new witness identified just within the past few years has led to the arrest of a suspect in a 1971 killing of a bank president’s wife in Massachusetts, authorities announced Tuesday. Arthur Louis Massei, 76, was indicted by a grand jury on a …

Police officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul are using a novel device to track potentially stolen cars without engaging in dangerous high-speed pursuits, reports CBS Minnesota. Four police and sheriff’s departments in the Twin Cities region are using StarChase, a unique tracking device that propels a dart-like cartridge from the …

A jury was selected Tuesday for the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, extraordinary allegations of violence planned against an elected official that led the presiding judge to advise: “This isn’t your average criminal case.” Opening statements were scheduled for Wednesday …

Armie Hammer was accused on Thursday of violently sexually assaulting a woman for more than four hours in Los Angeles in 2017, leading her to believe that “he was going to kill me.” An attorney for Hammer has denied the allegations.  The allegations against the 34-year-old actor, known for his …