The Latest: Mother told police she hit 3-year-old, hid body

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the arrest of a Las Vegas woman in the death of her 3-year-old daughter (all times local): 3:50 p.m. Documents say a 29-year-old mother of four told police she panicked and hid her 3-year-old daughter’s lifeless body in a duffel bag in her apartment closet nearly a day... Read More

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Aisha Yvonne Thomas

August 29, 2018

Ex-South American soccer official to be sentenced in US case

NEW YORK (AP) — A former top South American soccer official is facing sentencing in the sprawling FIFA (FEE’-fuh) bribery scandal. Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay is due in court in New York City on Wednesday. A U.S. jury convicted him late last year of racketeering and other charges stemming from a corruption scandal that... Read More

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FIFA, Juan Angel Napout

August 29, 2018

Cases in which police officers were charged in shootings

DALLAS (AP) — A white former police officer has been convicted of murder in Texas for fatally shooting a black, unarmed teenager while on duty. The 2017 shooting launched the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs into a national conversation on issues of law enforcement and race. Here are details about that case and others in... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Law Enforcement, News

August 29, 2018

New Mexico judges weigh dangerousness of compound defendants

TAOS, N.M. (AP) — Judges at hearings Wednesday in state district court are considering crucial decisions about child neglect and abuse charges against five defendants arrested at a remote compound in northern New Mexico where 11 children were found living in filth and the body of a 3-year-old boy was retrieved. A couple is confronting... Read More

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Siraj Ibn Wahhaj

August 29, 2018

Exchange student pleads guilty to firearm charge for threat

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Taiwanese exchange student accused of threatening to carry out a shooting at his suburban Philadelphia high school pleaded guilty to a federal firearms charge on Tuesday. An-Tso Sun was arraigned in federal court, where he entered the guilty plea. A judge scheduled sentencing for December, but Sun’s attorney Robert Keller asked... Read More

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An-Tso Sun

August 29, 2018

Trial date set for Statue of Liberty climber

NEW YORK (AP) — A protester who was arrested after climbing the base of the Statue of Liberty to protest America’s immigration policies says she wants to go to trial. Therese Okoumou appeared at federal court in Manhattan Tuesday, where a judge set a Nov. 5 trial date. She’s charged with trespassing and other misdemeanors.... Read More

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Therese Okoumou

August 29, 2018

New law to make California first state to end bail

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the first state to eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial and replace it with a still murky risk-assessment system under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown. Brown’s signature gives the state’s judicial council broad authority to reshape pretrial detention policies ahead of the new law’s October... Read More

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Jerry Brown

August 29, 2018

Sentencing underway for ex-Texas cop convicted of murder

DALLAS (AP) — Jurors are now deciding the fate of a former Texas police officer who was convicted of murder for fatally shooting a black, unarmed teenager last year in suburban Dallas. Wednesday marks the second day of the sentencing phase in the trial of Roy Oliver, who was convicted Tuesday for the 2017 slaying... Read More

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Roy Oliver

August 28, 2018

Man shot at women in cars because he didn’t think they should drive: cops

A Texas man whom authorities claim has a “dim” view of women was arrested this week, accused of firing shots at women drivers because he doesn’t believe they should be allowed behind the wheel, officials said. Nicholas D’Agostino, 29, is linked to at least three road rage shootings, all occuring in the Houston suburb of... Read More

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Nicholas D'Agostino

August 28, 2018

Man in women’s clothes caught taking video under bathroom stalls: cops

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Authorities say a man wearing a wig, makeup, and women’s clothing tried to take a picture of a woman from under the stall divider of a South Carolina convenience store bathroom. Greenville Police said a woman told investigators she knocked on a stall door Sunday and heard a male voice, but wasn’t... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

Shawn Thomas Hallett

August 28, 2018

Assistant principal busted for breaking into student’s home: cops

A Michigan assistant principal was charged for allegedly breaking into a student’s home after dropping them off there earlier, according to police. Amy Buchanan, who works at Smith Middle School, is accused of staging a home invasion Friday in Troy to look for prescription pills, the Detroit Free Press reported. The home security system notified... Read More

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Amy Buchanan

August 28, 2018

John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman denied parole for 10th time

The man who gunned down John Lennon nearly four decades ago has been denied parole for the 10th time, and must wait another two years for his next chance. A New York State parole board panel wrote that Mark David Chapman’s release “would be incompatible with the welfare and safety of society and would so... Read More

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John Lennon, Mark David Chapman

August 28, 2018

Hart family crash: Investigators reveal details from search of home after family SUV plunged off cliff

Investigators in Clark County, Washington, said they searched the home of the Hart family in the days after an SUV containing at least six members of a family plunged off a cliff in northern California, finding the refrigerator stocked, toothbrushes in the bathroom — but few signs six children lived in the house, according to... Read More

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Hart Family

August 28, 2018

Attorney: Police panel concluded Baltimore detective killed himself day before he was set to testify

BALTIMORE — An attorney representing the widow of a Baltimore detective who died the day before he was to testify in a police corruption trial said Monday that a panel reviewing the case has concluded that he most likely killed himself. Detective Sean Suiter was shot in the head with his own gun in November... Read More

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Sean Suiter

The Latest: Mother told police she hit 3-year-old, hid body

Ex-South American soccer official to be sentenced in US case

Cases in which police officers were charged in shootings

New Mexico judges weigh dangerousness of compound defendants

Exchange student pleads guilty to firearm charge for threat

Trial date set for Statue of Liberty climber

New law to make California first state to end bail

Sentencing underway for ex-Texas cop convicted of murder

Man shot at women in cars because he didn’t think they should drive: cops

Man in women’s clothes caught taking video under bathroom stalls: cops

Assistant principal busted for breaking into student’s home: cops

John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman denied parole for 10th time

Hart family crash: Investigators reveal details from search of home after family SUV plunged off cliff

Attorney: Police panel concluded Baltimore detective killed himself day before he was set to testify

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