CRIME

(Headline USA) The former district attorney of Mississippi's largest county was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison for taking bribes in a scheme that ensnared a number of city officials. Former Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens was charged on accusations that he solicited $250,000 in bribes...

(Headline USA)  Retail magnate Les Wexner's name will not be removed from several Ohio State University buildings, a university official announced Friday, despite hundreds of complaints over his close association with the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. The determination comes in arguably the highest-profile of the denaming protests to arise...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Advocates for the rights of homicide victims and legal professionals throughout California are continuing to express outrage over Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to commute the death sentences of all 548 inmates on the state's death row. "I take this action because I firmly believe that...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday commuted the death sentences of all 548 inmates on California's death row, prompting swift and sharp criticism from district attorneys, law enforcement and advocates of homicide victims. Newsom reduced the death sentences to life in prison without the possibility of...

(Headline USA) Police in a Denver suburb on Friday mourned an officer killed in a shootout on a city bus that also killed a gunman, wounded three other officers and injured a bystander. Lakewood police identified the slain officer Friday as Nic Graham, who since joining the force in 2019...

(Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he’ll change more than 500 death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole, though the state Supreme Court will have the final say in hundreds of those cases. Newsom’s decision comes as he prepares to...

(Headline USA) A female postal worker shot two fellow female employees at the main post office in Iowa’s capital city Thursday before being captured nearby, authorities said. A male employee was injured in a fall while trying to escape. None of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening, police said. “They’re...

(Headline USA) An FBI agent drove his government car the wrong way down a busy Brooklyn thoroughfare, blew through a red light and then struck a pedestrian before speeding away, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Andrew Reyes later lied to investigators about the Feb. 3 hit-and-run that left the victim seriously...

(Headline USA) A Mexican judge is accused of taking a $2 million bribe in exchange for releasing a suspected Canadian drug trafficker from custody in an investigation into a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring, U.S. officials said Thursday. Luiz Benítez Alcántara, 49, was arrested in Colombia on Sunday and faces a...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democrat LaKesha Womack unseated Republican Rep. Tim Moore for his congressional seat in North Carolina on Tuesday, despite her facing a felony charge for failing to return a rental car. Womack won the state’s 14th district, which covers part of Charlotte, with 51.1% of the votes...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Lawyers for a man arrested when he was a teenager for attempting to provide support to ISIS have asked a judge for a relatively lenient sentence on the grounds that FBI informants encouraged their client’s terroristic behavior. The defendant, Alexander Scott Mercurio, was arrested in April...

(Headline USA) One of two sheriff's deputies wounded in a firefight with a suspect in Washington state has died, and the other is not expected to survive, authorities said Wednesday. Deputies responded to a home in Spangle, a small farming community south of Spokane, on Tuesday afternoon after a woman told...