Ex-Houston officers indicted in wake of deadly drug raid
Prosecutors say a grand jury has indicted six former Houston police officers whose work with a narcotics unit has been under scrutiny since a 2019 drug raid in which a couple was killed …
Month: July 2020
No new trial for Mississippi man convicted of killing 8
A Mississippi man convicted in the 2017 killings of eight people appeared in court this week and asked for a new trial …
Harvey Updyke, ‘Bama fan who poisoned trees at Auburn, dies
An overzealous University of Alabama football fan who poisoned landmark oak trees at archrival Auburn University has died …
US: Snake River dams will not be removed to save salmon
The U.S. government says four huge dams on the Snake River in Washington state will not be removed to help endangered salmon migrate to the ocean …
Report: U-Michigan’s academic official was serial harasser
A University of Michigan professor who became the school’s top academic officer committed sexual misconduct during his long career …
Marine sea tank sinks with 16 aboard; 1 dead and 8 missing
Officials say a military seafaring assault vehicle with 15 Marines and a Navy sailor aboard sank off the coast of Southern California, leaving one of the Marines dead and eight missing …
Two Oklahoma jail escapees are recaptured after fleeing jail
Two Oklahoma jail escapees, including a murder suspect, have been recaptured in Oklahoma City after escaping a county jail by using sheets tied together to climb down the outside of the building from a 12th floor…
DC releases police footage from 2018 deaths of 3 Black men
Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department has released long-sought body camera and security footage from the 2018 deaths of three young Black men …
Victims of Kentucky pipeline explosion sue line operator
A lawsuit filed on behalf of those who were injured or who had property damaged in a fatal Kentucky pipeline explosion alleges the operator failed to maintain and repair the line …
AP PHOTOS: Nation honors John Lewis with final farewell
From the heart of the once-segregated South to Washington, D.C., the nation’s final goodbye to Rep. John Lewis reflected the dignity of the sharecropper’s son who became a symbol of moral courage during a lifetime…
COVID patient didn’t recognize body after double transplant
A Chicago woman who last month became the nation’s first COVID-19 patient to undergo a double lung transplant says she woke up days later, unaware about the surgery and unable to “recognize my body.” …
Ex high-ranking Mexican officers charged in drug scheme
Federal prosecutors say two former high-ranking Mexican law enforcement officials have been accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s notorious Sinaloa cartel …