CRIME

(Headline USA)  A man serving 130 years in prison for killing two teen girls in Indiana is asking an appeals court to overturn his convictions, saying that he confessed while he was having a psychological crisis and was unfairly barred from arguing at trial that the girls were killed...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square)  State and federal taxpayers are poised to spend more than $600 million on homeless prevention efforts in Illinois during the current fiscal year. A report released earlier this month by the Interagency Task Force on Homelessness and the Illinois Office to Prevent and End Homelessness...

(Headline USA) The ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy will give his first televised interview to “60 Minutes” on CBS News on Sunday after a jury deadlocked in her trial for killing their three young children. Patrick Clancy is expected to talk about the grief of losing his children and address social media...

(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) The U.S. Attorney's Office won’t release the subpoenas related to a federal investigation into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s international travel expenses, which The Center Square tried to acquire this week. “Subpoenas are not public record, and our office never releases them,” Lauren Horwood, public information officer...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal grand jury in Texas returned an indictment against a woman accused of threatening to kill the grieving father of late high school track star Austin Metcalf just three months after the trial of Karmelo Anthony. The woman, Sharifa Nicole Henderson, was indicted on Sept. 9...

(Headline USA)  The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldn't listen to him, according to a statement released by his lawyer Friday in his first public comments on the...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square)  Suspended U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro appeared in both state and federal courts this week in Minnesota for initial hearings. On Friday, Castro pleaded not guilty in a hearing before the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on six federal charges of...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Several faculty members and instructors at Utah Valley University openly voiced opposition to Charlie Kirk in the weeks after he was killed while addressing thousands of supporters on campus, newly unearthed emails revealed. The records, obtained by Judicial Watch through a Utah public-records request, reveal that some...

(Headline USA)  A Florida woman who was paid $750,000 by a fund for people sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to falsifying records she used in her application for the money. Jennifer Percival, a scholar who has written books on autism, entered the plea in federal court in...

(Headline USA) A man initially accused of being a high-profile al-Qaida figure and who was tortured in CIA custody appeared Thursday at a hearing to review his detention at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he has been held for 20 years without charges. A U.S. government...

(Headline USA) A former senior budget official for Connecticut's Democratic governor is now a fugitive in Greece after fleeing the U.S. by boat and plane ahead of his sentencing for corruption, his lawyer and prosecutors told a federal judge on Thursday. Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, 70, also sent his attorney a...

(Headline USA) The man who sprayed vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar during a Minneapolis town hall was sentenced Thursday to 14 months in prison after reaching a deal with prosecutors. The sentencing of 56-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak came nearly eight months after the Jan. 27 assault. At the time,...