Crime
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Tanzania accused of violence on Maasai protesting eviction
Jun 17, 2022 7:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Tanzania's government is accused of using violence against Maasai herders protesting efforts to evict them from one of the country's most popular t...
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No bail for Canisius basketball recruit facing gun charges
Jun 17, 2022 7:00 am - BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Canisius College basketball recruit Sarion McGee was denied bail on Friday, five days after campus police arrested him for having two handguns, a sh...
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Why an appellate court denied Degorski's latest bid for new trial in Brown's Chicken murdersJun 17, 2022 5:10 am - A witness who provided police with the break they needed to arrest two men in the 1993 Brown's Chicken murders in Palatine stood to gain a six-figure reward for her tip ...
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Avenatti pleads guilty to fraud, tax charges in California
Jun 16, 2022 7:00 am - SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Incarcerated lawyer Michael Avenatti pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of wire fraud and a tax-related charge in a federal court case in So...
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Biden signs bill to protect Supreme Court justices into law
Jun 16, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden signed a bill Thursday that will give around-the-clock security protection to the families of Supreme Court justices. The new law, ...
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Georgetown dad acquitted in final college bribery scam trial
Jun 16, 2022 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - A father was acquitted Thursday of charges that he paid off a Georgetown University tennis coach to get his daughter into the school in the final trial lin...
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Nigeria police free 35 teenage girls from prostitution ring
Jun 16, 2022 7:00 am - ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - At least 35 teenage girls held captive and forced to work in a prostitution ring in southeastern Nigeria have been rescued after police raided a ho...
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Judge: Documents in Sanford investigation should be public
Jun 16, 2022 7:00 am - SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota judge ruled Thursday that there's no basis to keep sealed documents related to a child pornography investigation of billionaire b...
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Nipsey Hussle's last moments detailed as murder trial opens
Jun 16, 2022 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rapper Nipsey Hussle was gunned down outside his clothing shop in a calculated, premeditated fashion by a man upset over a discussion about snitching,...
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NYC guitar concert by Hinckley, who shot Reagan, is canceled
Jun 16, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A planned concert by John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been canceled even as Hinckley was freed from federal c...