A Michigan man who killed an 83-year-old retired nurse when he was a teenager will get an opportunity for parole in the years ahead, despite telling a judge that life behind bars seemed appropriate. Shawn Commire has been serving a life sentence for the death of Rita Salogar of Bay …
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MIAMI (AP) — A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, which plunged the Caribbean nation into violence and political turmoil. Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, 45, pleaded guilty to three charges, including conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the …
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About seven more Jeffrey Epstein documents are still expected to be unsealed Tuesday, nearly a week after a federal judge in New York ordered the unmasking of dozens of Jane and John Does connected to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker. The court also reposted a stricken document containing images …
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Ronnie Long, a Black man who served 44 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of raping a White woman in the 1970s, has settled with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina, his lawyers said Tuesday. Long, now 68, received two life sentences following …
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DNA evidence recovered from a mask allegedly used by a suspect accused of breaking into a Pennsylvania man’s home in 2013 and killing him during a home invasion robbery has led to an arrest, authorities announced Wednesday. Thomas Delgado, 50, was arrested Wednesday by the U.S. Marshals Service in Philadelphia …
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SOUTHAVEN, Miss. – A Tennessee man died after a witness says police in northern Mississippi police “hogtied” him on a stretcher. Multiple news outlets report that 30-year-old Memphis chemical engineer Troy Goode died in a hospital Saturday night, two hours after being detained by the Southaven Police Department. Southaven Police …
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – An Albuquerque, New Mexico, firefighter has been removed from the city’s dispatch center after telling a 911 caller who was trying to keep alive a gunshot victim to “deal with it yourself.” KRQE-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1I6VpPZ) 17-year-old Jaydon Chavez-Silver was fatally shot during a party on June 26. …
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A Chicago pastor is pushing back against claims that the city’s crime crisis is improving, calling on President Donald Trump to step in before the violence escalates. Pastor Corey Brooks, who leads Project H.O.O.D., a violence prevention group on the city’s South Side, said Wednesday the community has already seen …
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A Michigan college student was shot to death by her ex-boyfriend over the weekend following months of reported stalking as the victim attempted to obtain a restraining order. Sarah Carroll, 20, was killed by her ex-boyfriend, identified as “Lincoln,” on Saturday night at theWoodland Villa Apartments, located approximately 25 miles …
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday ripped “reckless” criminal justice policies in the wake of the Aug. 22 stabbing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, calling it a tragedy that was preventable and overlooked by much of the media. Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee, was killed while …
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