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Michigan judge rules Oxford school district has immunity, can't be sued

DETROIT — The Oxford school district and its employees have government immunity and can’t be sued in the November 2021 mass shooting at Oxford High School that killed four students and injured seven others, an Oakland County judge ruled late Friday.

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Defense lawyers in Idaho stabbing case say gag order needed

Defense attorneys for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to keep a gag order in place

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2 shot, 1 fatally, in West Garfield Park

Danny Smith Jr. and another male were found shot about 8:45 a.m.

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Capitol rioter guilty of stealing badge from beaten officer

A New York man has pleaded guilty to stealing a badge and radio from a police officer who was brutally beaten as rioters pulled him into the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol over two years ago

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Inmate beaten to death in max security wing of Cook County Jail

Marvell Reasonover, 28, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, officials said. His death was ruled a homicide.

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Texas Education Agency would have new power to enforce school safety plans under Senate bill

The bill, introduced months after the Uvalde school shooting, also allocates more funds to the state’s school safety allotment, which is money given to districts to improve campus security.

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DeSantis says he supports open carry in audio recorded from gun rights group

TAMPA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis was recorded Thursday telling a member of a gun rights group that he supports allowing Floridians to openly carry guns in public — a measure that has been publicly opposed by some law enforcement officials and that would go further than any bill now…

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Police given more time to question two men over detective’s shooting in Omagh

Both men remain in custody in the Serious Crime Suite at Musgrave Police Station.

The Independent UK

Man, 21, taken to hospital with knife injuries to arm and hand following assault in Felling

Police are looking to piece together what led to a 21-year-old being rushed to hospital with wounds caused by a blade

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Bump stocks sales resume in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi after ATF misses deadline to appeal reversal of ban

WASHINGTON — Gun shops are selling bump stocks again in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi after federal regulators failed to appeal a ruling that lifted a ban imposed after a Las Vegas rampage left 58 people dead.

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Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison for double murder; attorneys say they’ll appeal conviction

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys will quickly file an appeal of their client’s double-murder conviction, they said in a press conference Friday.

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Takeaway delivery driver who shot teenage customer dead on doorstep in Meath jailed for life

"Inexplicably and shockingly he was shot having ordered a pizza, it is unspeakable".

Irish Mirror

Murdaugh's fast conviction sealed by his testimony: experts

Prosecutors produced no direct evidence linking South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to the killings of his wife and son, yet a jury took less than three hours to convict him

The Independent UK

Fiancée of slain reporter says she has his sperm and aims to raise $50,000 to have IVF

Casey Fite, the fiancée of Spectrum News 13 reporter, Dylan Lyons, says she harvested his sperm after he was shot dead alongside a nine-year-old girl, and is raising money to be able to have his baby and ' continue his legacy'

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Special counsel urges LA sheriff to ban the 'cancer' of deputy gangs

LOS ANGELES — After dozens of interviews and seven public hearings, the Civilian Oversight Commission's special counsel has released a 70-page report condemning the "cancer" of violent deputy gangs and urging Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna to create a policy officially banning the secretive groups.

Chicago Tribune

Accused shooter of slain Chicago police Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso ordered held without bond

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge ordered an 18-year-old man held without bond Friday after he was accused of murder in the death of Chicago police Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, who was shot and killed responding to a domestic-related call this week.

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Accused Chicago officer killer ordered held without bond

A judge ordered a teenager held without bond Friday in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer

The Independent UK

Murdaugh judge's own legal story unfolded in South Carolina

The judge who sentenced Alex Murdaugh on Friday to life in prison for killing his wife and son has earned attention and plaudits for his even-handed demeanor throughout the trial and for his dressing-down of the once-prominent lawyer just before he sent him to prison

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Hobbs vows not to carry out execution scheduled by court

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says corrections officials won't carry out an execution even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state’s new attorney general

Salon

Jon Stewart corners pro-gun Republican

"That is hypocrisy at its highest order," Stewart told Republican who wants to protect kids from drag shows instead

France 24

Disgraced US lawyer Murdaugh sentenced to life for murder of wife, son

In the culmination of the once-prominent lawyer’s fall from grace, Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday after being convicted of murdering his wife and son.

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Kohberger endorses public defender as attorney in hearing over possible conflict issue

BOISE, Idaho — The court-appointed public defender for Bryan Kohberger asserted she does not have a conflict of interest representing the University of Idaho homicide suspect after previously acting as attorney for a parent to one of the four stabbing victims, according to a newly unsealed legal filing.

Leeds Live

Chapeltown murder victim named by police as 29-year-old Peter Wass

Peter Wass was stabbed in the street near to the junction of Hamilton Place and Hamilton Avenue in Leeds

Chicago Sun-Times

Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso’s shooting death is a tragic reminder of city’s gun violence

The officer was able to return fire in spite of his wounds, striking the suspect in the head as children playing at a nearby school ran for cover. The suspect, now charged with first-degree murder and several other offenses, had a brush with the law before.

Al Jazeera

Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison in US murder trial

South Carolina judge sentences former lawyer to two consecutive life sentences for murder of wife and son.

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