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Lawrence Hecker is charged with raping teenager after strangling him in 1975 in a New Orleans churchA mental competency hearing has been delayed again for a 92-year-old retired Catholic priest faced with charges of raping a teenager after strangling him unconscious in 1975 in a New Orleans church.Lawrence Hecker’s trial on state charges of aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature and theft...

Patrice Runner, 57, of Canada was convicted in June of multiple counts of defrauding ‘millions of older and vulnerable Americans’A Canadian conman, who swindled more than US$175m (C$241m) from his North American victims through “a massive psychic mass-mailing fraud scheme” has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.Patrice Runner, 57, who holds citizenship with both Canada and France, was convicted by a jury in...

Investigators say two people came forward after death of man who killed Hiram ‘Ross’ Grayam in 1968More than five decades after a second world war veteran was killed while working as a milkman in Florida, investigators say they have solved the case thanks to two people who came forward after the killer died.Hiram “Ross” Grayam was delivering milk in April 1968 and failed to...

Christine Jenneiahn shot and mortally wounded a man who broke into her home at night and handcuffed her to a chairAt 85-years-old, Christine Jenneiahn might have seemed particularly vulnerable to the man who broke into her Idaho home, pistol whipped her and handcuffed her to a chair.But investigators say Jenneiahn saved herself as well as her son – whom authorities described as disabled –...

Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, allegedly put stickers on state buildings with antifa, anti-police and anti-Ice sentimentsAn Alabama man has been charged with detonating an explosive device outside the state attorney general’s office.In a statement on Wednesday, the justice department announced that authorities had arrested 26-year-old Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert of Irondale on charges of malicious use of an explosive and possession of an...

Brian Dorsey, convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband, put to death amid efforts by many to have his sentence commutedBrian Dorsey, who was convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband in 2006, was executed in Missouri’s Bonne Terre state prison Tuesday despite an extraordinary effort by corrections officials and his appeals judge to have his capital sentence commuted.Prison officials confirmed that...

Lawyers had argued trial should be postponed while they seek a change of venue to move it out of heavily Democratic ManhattanSign up for Trump on Trial: a free newsletter on all the latest court developmentsA New York appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his 15 April hush-money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out...

Victims transported to area hospitals after police heard shots fired near Circle Centre Mall on Saturday nightSeven children between the ages of 12 and 17 were wounded in one of the US’s latest mass shooting, which erupted outside a shopping mall in downtown Indianapolis late Saturday night, authorities said.Police officers patrolling the area heard shots fired near the Circle Centre Mall shortly after 11.30pm,...

Federal investigation comes amid multiple lawsuits including singer Cassie accusing him of rape and physical abuseThe rapper and mogul Sean Combs is facing mounting legal troubles after federal agents searched his properties in Los Angeles and Miami as part of a sex-trafficking investigation.On Monday morning, US Department of Homeland Security agents in tactical gear and armored vehicles raided two of Combs’ mansions as part...

Skylar Meade and Nicholas Umphenour arrested 130 miles away as officials look into whether they killed two people while on the runA white supremacist prison gang member and his accomplice are in police custody after being on the run in Idaho, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run.On Thursday, Idaho officials said that Skylar Meade, 31, and...

Three corrections officers injured after unknown accomplice of gang member Skylar Meade stages attack after hospital tripA white supremacist prison gang member in Idaho and an accomplice remained on the loose Wednesday after the accomplice staged a brazen overnight attack to free the inmate as he was being transported from a Boise hospital, police said.Police identified the man suspected of shooting two corrections officers...

Sanyia Spain, 19, said that attacker made advances towards her and her sister Samyia and violently retaliated when they declinedEarly Sunday morning in New York’s Park Slope neighborhood, 19-year-old twins Samyia and Sanyia Spain were stabbed by an unknown assailant following an altercation. The sisters were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist hospital, where Samyia died and Sanyia was released after being treated for her...

Investigation of items that were stolen during the Okinawa battle began after family discovered them in late father’s belongingsThe FBI has returned 22 centuries-old artifacts to Okinawa, Japan, after a family discovered them in their late father’s attic in Massachusetts.Agents with the FBI’s Boston division on Friday announced that the return of the looted items followed a lengthy investigation that began when they received...

Andre Gordon, 26, was found in a house in New Jersey, where he was believed to have barricaded himself after two shootingsThe suspect involved in the fatal shootings of three people outside a Philadelphia-area suburb on Saturday morning has been arrested.According to authorities, 26-year-old Andre Gordon was found near a house in Trenton, New Jersey, where he was believed to have barricaded himself after...

Peter Navarro is appealing his conviction for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate with the January 6 House inquiryDonald Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the US supreme court on Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction.Navarro is due to report to a federal prison on Tuesday after an appeals...

Before Robert Card killed 18 last year, police had opportunity to seize his guns and place him in custody after several incidentsLaw enforcement should have seized a man’s guns and put him in protective custody weeks before he committed Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, a report found Friday.An independent commission has been reviewing the events that led up to army reservist Robert Card killing 18...

Several employees at the federal correctional institution in Dublin have pleaded guilty to abusing female inmatesA judge called a California federal women’s prison known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates “a dysfunctional mess” on Friday as she ordered a special master to oversee the facility, marking the first time the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been subject to such an action.“The situation can no...

Groundbreaking verdict holds James Crumbley, father of teen who killed four students, criminally responsible for actions of his childThe father of a school shooter in Michigan has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a case that created headlines across the United States for seeking to find a parent criminally responsible for the actions of their child.James Crumbley, 47, is the father of Ethan...

Michael Christian Green faces up to year in prison after pleading guilty over incident in town of Pearl in December A Mississippi police officer pleaded guilty on Thursday to a federal misdemeanor charge after authorities accused him of forcing a prisoner to drink his own urine.In court filings, first reported by the Daily Beast, prosecutors for the US district court for the southern district...

Arthur Schubarth, 80, pleads guilty to trafficking in ‘audacious’ and unlawful scheme to cross-breed sheep for lucrative saleA Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep killed by hunters in central Asia and the US to breed “giant” hybrid sheep for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas, according to court documents and federal prosecutors.Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80, of Vaughn, Montana, pleaded...

Karen Casbohm and Loreen Bea Feralo were arrested after they allegedly used the body of deceased housemate to access cashIn a case that bears more than a passing resemblance to the plot of the 1989 film Weekend at Bernie’s, two Ohio women have been accused of driving a dead man’s body to a bank to withdraw money from his account.Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen...

Ralph Hendry, 66, and Kathleen Brandel, 77, had been cruising the eastern Caribbean when their catamaran was hijackedThree men who had escaped from prison have been charged with capital murder in connection with the deaths of an American couple who disappeared in the Caribbean in February after their catamaran was hijacked.The Royal Grenada Police Force announced Friday that Trevon Robertson, 23; Atiba Stanislaus, 25;...

At least one student, a 16-year-old who was hit nine times, was critically wounded while waiting at a bus stop on WednesdayPolice say eight Philadelphia high school students waiting to board a city bus after classes Wednesday were wounded by gunshots from suspects who jumped from a car and opened fire, the fourth shooting on the transit system in as many days.The previous three...

Shooting on Sunday evening at outdoor gathering in King City left four dead and seven others injured, police sayPolice are offering a $20,000 reward for information on a shooting that took place on Sunday evening when a group of masked men pulled up to an outdoor birthday party in central California and opened fire, killing at least four.Officers responded to a reported shooting at...