The accused Waukesha Christmas parade killer was removed from the courtroom Tuesday on the second day of jury selection after his near-constant interjections brought his murder trial to a standstill. Brooks, 40, is accused of plowing his SUV into holiday re...
It only took two decades, but a rare and endangered turtle species has finally bred at the San Diego Zoo. Zoo officials on Monday announced the arrival of 41 tiny Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle hatchlings. Conservationists from the San Diego Zoo Wild...
A jury has awarded a racial justice demonstrator more than $1 million in a federal lawsuit she filed in 2020 against the city of Salem accusing officers of violating her civil rights. Eleaqia McCrae, a Black woman, sued the city and the police department, a...
A Massachusetts father and son pair of restaurant owners in the Boston area were arrested Tuesday in connection with an alleged human smuggling operation in which victims were allegedly forced to work in the establishments to pay off their debt. Jesse James...
A new state law in California could incentivize "bad actors" from around the world to skirt custodial laws by relocating to the Golden State, a conservative legal group claims. "We think it's a drastic overreach by California," Emilie Kao, senior counsel fo...
This single seizure of "rainbow fentanyl" removed the equivalent of 500,000 lethal doses from circulation in the Empire State, DEA Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Frank Tarentino said. In the same reporting period, DEA seized the equivalent...
The widow of fallen Austin Police Department Officer Anthony "Tony" Martin said she was "crushed" after seeing Mayor Steve Adler appearing to sleep at her husband's funeral on Monday. It was the honor & respect of a man who has served his country and co...
A 21-year-old Florida sheriff's deputy who died Tuesday while serving an arrest warrant was killed by friendly fire after a suspect pulled out a realistic-looking BB gun and pointed it at officers, authorities said. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd described...
The U.S. national debt has passed $31 trillion for the first time in history. Treasury Department data released Tuesday showed that the total national debt was $31.123 trillion as of Monday. ARIZONA AG SUES BIDEN TO STOP ‘ILLEGAL’ STUDENT LOAN HANDOUTThe ne...
CNN —Democrats in Wisconsin sought to turn the midterm elections into a referendum on abortion after Republicans who control the state legislature met for less than 30 seconds Tuesday to reject Gov. Tony Evers’ bid to allow voters to decide the issue. The G...
A Michigan judge dismissed charges Tuesday against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires' disease. Judge Elizabeth Kelly took action three months after the Michigan Supreme C...
California authorities on Tuesday continued to search for a kidnapped family of four and their suspected abductor. The Merced County Sheriff's Office on Monday announced the kidnapping of 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri; her 27-year-old mother, Jasleen Kaur; her 3...
A federal judge has ordered Idaho and its prison medical care provider to pay more than $2.5 million in legal fees to a transgender inmate who sued after she was denied gender confirmation surgery. The cost, however, will not come out of taxpayer dollars. I...
Sheriff's officials in central California released photos of a possible suspect in the kidnapping of four members of a family, including an 8-month-old child. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office said the child's mother, father and uncle were taken against th...
A state board on Monday rejected claims for $1 million payments for 52 prison inmates who were given six times the proper dose of COVID-19 vaccines last year. The three-member State Appeals Board, which considers state legal financial obligations, unanimous...
Two of the four former Minneapolis police officers who were convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights during the May 2020 restraint that killed him are scheduled to begin serving their federal sentences Tuesday. J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao are...
A Cook County judge on Monday threw out convictions for eight more people whose cases were linked to a notorious former Chicago police sergeant who regularly framed people for drug crimes they didn’t commit. Judge Erica Reddick vacated the convictions and s...
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. – Neighbors of the New York man who was shot and killed in the lobby of a suburban hotel where he was staying for "Family Weekend" at his son’s nearby college was remembered by neighbors as "one of the best." The New York man who was shot...
A Florida principal faces criminal charges for allegedly leaving a pair of guns in a conference room at a Parkland middle school, three miles from the site of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Geyler Herrera-Castro, 39, allegedly brough...
A rapper was shot and killed in Los Angeles as he was walking home Monday night, his family told local media. The artist known as Half Ounce was walking in Koreatown at about 11:30 p.m. with a friend when an SUV pulled up and a passenger began firing, Fox L...