Crime
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Ethiopia 'at a crossroads' amid spiraling ethnic conflict
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - GONDAR, Ethiopia (AP) - Aba Yosief Desta preferred not to discuss the ethnicities of victims in the widening conflicts threatening Ethiopia's unity. A wooden cross in h...
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Ex-soldiers acquitted of 1972 murder of Official IRA leader
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Two former British paratroopers accused of the 1972 murder of an Official IRA leader in Belfast were formally acquitted Tuesday after the veterans' trial c...
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Supreme Court skeptical of low-level crack offender's case
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Crack cocaine trafficking kingpins convicted more than a decade ago can ask courts to reduce their prison terms under a 2018 federal law. The Supreme C...
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Probation for ex-cop accused of kneeling on Black man's neck
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - DENVER (AP) - A former police officer accused of holding two door-to-door roofing company salesmen on the ground at gunpoint and kneeling on the neck of one of them who ...
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SKorea dairy company CEO resigns over virus research scandal
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The chairman of one of South Korea's biggest dairy companies has resigned over a scandal in which his company was accused of deliberately sprea...
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AP source: Sheldon Silver released from prison on furlough
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been released from a federal prison on furlough while he awaits potential placement to home confineme...
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German far-right crime rises; police arrest alleged neo-Nazi
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Berlin police arrested a 53-year-old German man on suspicion of sending dozens of threatening letters to politicians, lawyers and journalists that were sig...
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Judge orders Justice Dept. to release Trump obstruction memo
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has ordered the release of a legal memorandum the Trump-era Justice Department prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr before h...
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Idaho legislative intern reports rape, is ID'd by lawmaker
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The harassment began soon after a report by a 19-year-old intern, who alleged an Idaho lawmaker raped her, became public. One state representative s...
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Customs: Woman hid cocaine in shoes at Atlanta airport
May 04, 2021 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia woman was caught trying to smuggle $40,000 worth of cocaine in multiple pairs of shoes through the Atlanta airport, according to U.S. Customs an...