Crime Stories from August 5, 2020 (Change date)
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Proposal to disband Minneapolis police blocked from ballotAug 05, 2020 9:05 pm - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minneapolis commission decided Wednesday to take more time to review a City Council amendment to dismantle the Police Department in the wake of Geor...
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House arrest of Colombia's Uribe exposes post-peace tensionsAug 05, 2020 3:05 pm - BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Hero or villain? In Colombia, former President Álvaro Uribe is both. The rift over Uribe, and the broader rift in Colombian society, born ...
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Negligence probed in deadly Beirut blast amid public angerAug 05, 2020 7:06 pm - BEIRUT (AP) - Investigators probing the deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focused Wednesday on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fert...
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Protest leader Bush ousts 20-year US Rep. Clay in MissouriAug 05, 2020 8:05 am - Cori Bush, a onetime homeless woman who led protests following a white police officer's fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old in Ferguson, ousted longtime Rep. William L...
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Trump encourages mail voting in Florida but sues in NevadaAug 06, 2020 8:53 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - In an abrupt reversal, President Donald Trump is encouraging voters in the critical swing state of Florida to vote by mail after months of criticizing ...
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Lawyers to argue about psychologist in newspaper attack caseAug 06, 2020 7:04 am - ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Lawyers are scheduled to argue about whether a psychologist's observations about a man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper should be hea...
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Police: 28 dead cats, 1 dead squirrel found in Waukegan woman's homeAug 07, 2020 9:44 am - A 54-year-old Waukegan woman faces animal cruelty charges after authorities found 28 dead cats and one dead squirrel inside her home, police said in a news release Wedne...
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Hoffman Estates man gets 7 years for sexual assaulting woman he met on social mediaAug 07, 2020 9:44 am - A Hoffman Estates man was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to register as a sex offender Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman h...
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ComEd pleads not guilty in influence-peddling caseAug 07, 2020 9:44 am - Energy utility ComEd pleaded not guilty to bribery at an arraignment Wednesday despite previously admitting wrongdoing in an influence-peddling scheme that threatens to ...
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Streamwood man charged in slaying of 10-year-old girl in ChicagoAug 06, 2020 6:07 am - The suspected driver of a car from which a 10-year-old girl was shot and killed as she watched TV in her grandmother's Chicago home has been charged with first-degree mu...
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