3rd-degree murder count could be reinstated in Floyd’s death
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ordered a judge to reconsider adding a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer accused in George Floyd’s death …
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Ex-chief: Dallas cop kept on job to not tip him off to probe
Dallas’ former police chief says the police department allowed an officer to continue patrolling for more than a year while investigating whether he ordered two people to be killed because it didn’t want to tip him…
Fighting Biden virus aid, GOP rekindles Obama-era strategy
Republicans have one goal for President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package: to erode public support …
St. Louis-area mom, 2 children killed; baby taken, but safe
A St. Louis-area man fatally shot his estranged wife and two of her children before fleeing with their baby, who was later found safe …
Study marks major milestone for Louisiana coastal plan
A nearly $2 billion plan to divert water and sediment from the Mississippi River to rebuild land in southeastern Louisiana has passed a major milestone with the publication of an environmental impact study …
Exam finds multiple cracks in part of United jet’s engine
Federal safety officials are updating their investigation into the engine failure on a United Airlines plane that sent parts of the engine housing raining down on Denver-area neighborhoods last month …
US to open more beds for immigrant children as numbers rise
President Joe Biden’s administration is instructing long-term facilities that hold immigrant children to lift capacity restrictions enacted during the coronavirus pandemic …
Fewer than 5,000 customers without water in Jackson
Fewer than 5,000 water customers were still without service Friday afternoon in Mississippi’s capital city of Jackson …
Police investigate pepper spraying of mother near toddler
A Rochester police officer has been placed on administrative duty after using pepper spray on a shoplifting suspect who tried to escape with her 3-year-old child in her arms …
9 in SUV have major injuries in border crash that killed 13
The California Highway Patrol says nine migrants in an SUV packed with 25 people that drove through an opening in a border wall suffered major injuries after their vehicle slammed into a tractor-trailer and killed 13…
Guatemala woman, 23, is among 13 killed in California crash
One of the 13 people killed when the SUV smuggling migrants into California hit a tractor-trailer was a 23-year-old woman who was fleeing violence in Guatemala for the hope of a better life …
Virginia man accused of shooting federal facility guard dies
A man who officials say was equipped with roughly 600 rounds of ammunition when he exchanged gunfire with a security guard at a Virginia social security building died Wednesday at a local hospital …