Colorado state regulators have ruled that a district attorney who brought criminal charges that were ultimately dismissed against a man accused of killing his missing wife should no longer be allowed to work as a lawyer, finding that her management of the high-profile case resulted in the prosecution “running aground.” The panel issued a 2-1...
Idaho’s Supreme Court has assigned Bryan Kohberger’s upcoming student murders trial to a judge in Ada County after his defense team successfully sought a change of venue to take the proceedings away from rural Latah County, where he is accused of killing four college students. A one-page order signed by Idaho’s Chief Justice Richard Bevan...
Local and state officials in Kentucky and federal authorities continued their search Thursday for alleged I-75 shooter and fugitive Joseph A. Couch in a densely wooded area of the southeastern portion of the state. Couch, 32, is accused of shooting dozens of rounds toward I-75 Sept. 7 near exit 49 in Laurel County, wounding five...
Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, left for a jog in her sleepy Maryland community on Aug. 5, 2023, and never came home. Police found her brutalized remains stuffed in a culvert and, after a months-long investigation, identified her suspected killer as an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who is also accused of murder...
Two European eyewitnesses to the altercation that left Jordan Neely dead and New York City Marine infantry veteran Daniel Penny facing manslaughter charges have gone home and refused to cooperate with prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, according to a local report. Penny, 25, is scheduled to go to trial next month after...
Attorneys representing the father of suspected Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray are now asking a court for him to be separated from other inmates to “ensure his personal safety.” Lawyers for Colin Gray, who is facing four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of second-degree cruelty to children...
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, who previously supported defunding police efforts, is now pushing to “increase patrols in areas reeling from ongoing criminal behavior” after the deadly shooting of a popular chef left the community reeling. Shaun Brady, a 44-year-old Irish immigrant, was shot dead outside the restaurant he owned Aug. 28 just after 5...
A teen who killed his father in Oklahoma last yearbut claimed self-defense, thereby avoiding prosecution,faces first-degree murder charges in Florida for allegedly stabbing his mother to death. The 17-year-old faces first-degree murder charges in the death of his 39-year-old mother. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a Wednesday press conference that he is pushing...
In a rare venture off her carefully crafted “script,” Vice President Kamala Harris commented on this week’s tragic school shooting in Winder, Georgia which left four dead and nine hospitalized. At her campaign rally in New Hampshire, Harris called the incident “a senseless tragedy,” and went on to lament that students have to be “concerned...
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland championed a returned to “norms” at the Department of Justice on Thursday, despite controversies that have left Republicans alleging a two-tier justice system. Speaking to department staff in Washington, D.C., Garland referred to former President Trump’s term in the White House as a “particularly difficult period for the department.” “When...
