Crime
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Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in Cook County jail for staging hate crimeMar 10, 2022 12:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A judge sentenced Jussie Smollett to 150 days in jail, branding the Black and gay actor a narcissistic charlatan for staging a hate crime against himself ...
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Smollett to learn his fate in court today
Mar 09, 2022 11:01 pm - More than three years after Jussie Smollett told police he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack on a dark, cold Chicago street, all of the questions swirling...
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Jussie Smollett to learn fate after staged attack conviction
Mar 09, 2022 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - More than three years after Jussie Smollett told police he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack on a dark, cold Chicago street, all of the que...
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A look inside the 1st official 'safe injection sites' in US
Mar 09, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin. After years of shooting up on streets ...
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Human trafficking case sparks government response in China
Mar 09, 2022 6:00 am - TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Sustained, palpable anger in China over the case of a mother of eight found chained inside a shed has prompted an unusually strong government respo...
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Americans in Japanese prison in Ghosn escape seek to go home
Mar 09, 2022 6:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Two Americans imprisoned in Japan for helping former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn avoid trial and escape to Lebanon are hoping to serve the rest of their ti...
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1st NY pot sales permits will go to people with convictions
Mar 09, 2022 6:00 am - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The first licenses to sell recreational marijuana in New York will go to people who were casualties of the war on drugs, state officials said Wednesd...
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5 accused a decade after renowned Puerto Rican boxer killed
Mar 09, 2022 6:00 am - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - With heads bowed and surrounded by heavily armed police, the first suspects arrested nearly a decade after the fatal shooting of renowned Pu...
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EXPLAINER: What charges did Jussie Smollett face at trial?
Mar 09, 2022 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The twists, turns and oddities of the legal saga surrounding Jussie Smollett's claim in 2019 that he was the target of a racist and homophobic attack in C...
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Woman out of prison in school bus crash that killed 3 kids
Mar 09, 2022 6:00 am - ROCHESTER, Ind. (AP) - A woman convicted in a 2018 crash that killed three siblings who were crossing a rural northern Indiana highway to board a school bus was released...