Crime
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Driver charged with DUI after crashing into squad car stopped for separate DUI arrestDec 20, 2020 12:00 am - A North Chicago woman faces felony drunken driving charges after she crashed into a parked Lake County Sheriff's squad car at the scene of a separate DUI arrest in Beach...
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In FBI probe, Texas AG faces aggressive, ethical prosecutor
Dec 19, 2020 6:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent years dodging legal and public relations blows that might have knocked others out of politics. The Republican h...
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Epstein-linked modeling agent charged with rape of minors
Dec 19, 2020 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - A modeling agent associated with disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein has been charged in France with sexual harassment and the rape of minors over 15 y...
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Video allowed in trial of officers charged in Floyd killing
Dec 19, 2020 6:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A judge upheld his decision to livestream the trial of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd. Judge Peter Cahil...
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Rittenhouse family selling "Free Kyle" merchandise for defense fundDec 19, 2020 12:00 am - The family of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Antioch teen charged with killing two people and wounding a third during an August protest in Kenosha, is selling "Free Kyle" merchan...
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Lawyers: 2nd US inmate scheduled to be executed has COVID-19
Dec 18, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A second federal inmate scheduled to be put to death next month in a series of executions by the Trump administration has tested positive for COVID-19, hi...
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Prosecutor releases security video of Ohio judge being shot
Dec 18, 2020 6:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Surveillance video showing an Ohio judge being shot and wounded at a courthouse before the assailant was himself shot and killed has been released ...
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New York Times: '~Caliphate' podcast didn't meet standards
Dec 18, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times admitted Friday that it could not verify the claims of a Canadian man whose account of committing atrocities for the Islamic State in ...
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Sexual assault charge dropped against rapper Mystikal
Dec 18, 2020 6:00 am - SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - Prosecutors have dropped rape and kidnapping charges against New Orleans rapper Mystikal, who was released from jail on a $3 million bond almost t...
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New sheriff in NYC? No, but pandemic lifts obscurity of one
Dec 18, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Raids. Checkpoints. Late-night busts. It's all been part of the job for the lawman tasked with enforcing New York City's COVID-19 restrictions. The pande...