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Judge denies Missouri prosecutor request to halt execution

A Missouri man who killed a police officer still faces execution later this month after a judge denied a special prosecutor’s request to halt the death sentence

The Independent UK

Prosecutors, defense win freedom for man in 1983 killing

A man who spent nearly four decades behind bars for a 1983 killing has won his freedom after New Orleans prosecutors joined defense lawyers in asking to have his conviction overturned

The Independent UK

UVA shooting suspect Christopher Jones bought two guns after being denied

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr, 22, was arraigned for three counts of second-degree murder, three counts of using a firearm in the commision of a felony and two more counts of malicious wounding

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Sister of slain University of Idaho student urges others to leave campus while killer of 4 remains on the loose

The sister of one of the four University of Idaho students found fatally stabbed in an off-campus home over the weekend encouraged those still at the school to leave while authorities continue their hunt for the killer.

Tribune News Service

US Customs agent killed, two wounded in shootout off Puerto Rico coast

The shootout occurred approximately 144 miles from the island

The Independent UK

UVA promises external review of its interaction with suspect

The University of Virginia will pursue an external review of whether its leadership did all it could to prevent the on-campus shooting that killed three football players and injured two students earlier this week

The Independent UK

NT cop's fatal shots not necessary: expert

A Northern Territory policeman didn't need to fire the shots that killed an Indigenous teenager during a botched arrest, an expert witness has told an inquest.

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Victims of double fatal shooting in Roseland identified as 13-year-old boys

Michael Hence and Quentin Branch were found Thursday morning in the 11400 block of South Calumet Avenue.

Chicago Sun-Times

University of Idaho murders: Prosecutor says student stabbings may have multiple suspects as police seek knife

All four victims were killed with an ‘edged weapon such as a knife’ – with the murder weapon nowhere to be found and the killer still at large four days on from the brutal crime

The Independent UK

What needs to change to keep hospital workers safe from violence?

DALLAS — Hospitals are supposed to exist as places of healing.

Tribune News Service

Police called after man with 'offensive weapon' seen near Scots primary school

Extensive searches remain ongoing to trace him.

Daily Record

Armed robbers strike minutes apart near Portage Park

In both Thursday morning attacks, five robbers emerged from a white SUV with guns to take victims’ wallets, police say.

Chicago Sun-Times

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Rocky road ahead for McCarthy

For the past two years, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conducted a political science class in how to manage the House of Representatives with a bare four-seat majority.

Tribune News Service

Idaho murder victim’s sister calls for students to flee town as police admit threat is wider than thought

Police say suspect still at large with no trace of muder weapon

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Alabama execution set in murder-for-hire of preacher's wife

Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife

Daily Mirror

Stephen Barbee tells warden 'send me home' in final words before execution

Stephen Barbee said he wanted "everyone to have peace in their heart" before telling the warden "send me home" in final words before his execution in Texas for killing a pregnant ex-girlfriend and her son

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Man denies intent to kill during shooting

A Brisbane jury has heard Justin John Meale admit to a fatal shooting on Father's Day in 2018 while insisting he meant to only wound the victim.

The Independent UK

Idaho murders - live: ‘More than one’ suspect may be at large in university student ‘rambo knife’ stabbings

Four friends were killed after returning home from nights out in Moscow, Idaho

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Virginia football player Devin Chandler killed in sleep, prosecutor says

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Devin Chandler was fatally shot in his sleep as he and other University of Virginia classmates were on a bus returning to campus after a field trip, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Idaho police backtrack and admit there is a threat to the public after four students murdered

‘There's still a person out there who committed horrible, horrible crimes,’ admits Moscow police chief James Fry

Chicago Sun-Times

Trial begins for man who allegedly was with Adam Toledo the night 13-year-old was killed by CPD officer

Ruben Roman, who was 21 when Toledo killed in 2021, faces charges for allegedly shooting at a car shortly before fatal footchase with police.

The Denver Post

Denver police officers who shot 6 bystanders seek to avoid court testimony

DENVER — The three Denver police officers who shot at a man with a gun in Lower Downtown — wounding him and six bystanders — should not be forced to testify at the man’s preliminary hearing, the officers’ attorney argued Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

New York’s concealed carry gun laws reinstated as appeal plays out in courts

ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal appeals court, for the second time, reinstated New York’s strict concealed carry law after portions of the statute were temporarily suspended by a judge last week.

Chicago Sun-Times

Suspect held in fatal South Shore shooting

A 40-year-old man was shot in his torso about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday in the 1900 block of East 71st Street.

The Independent UK

Attorneys demand arrest of guards in jail detainee's beating

Attorneys for a Georgia jail detainee are demanding the firings and arrests of guards recorded by security cameras repeatedly punching the inmate in his cell

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