A Plainfield, Illinois man faces serious charges, including murder, after he allegedly killed a 6-year-old boy by stabbing him 26 times, and seriously wounded the child’s mother by stabbing her more than a dozen times, over their faith as Muslims. The Will County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were dispatched to …
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A Black man who spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction was fatally shot Monday by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities said. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting, identified the man as Leonard Allen Cure, 53. …
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An East Providence High School student was stabbed by another student Thursday afternoon, prompting a campus lockdown. A 17-year-old boy stabbed a 16-year-old boy in one of the school’s bathrooms, East Providence Police Chief Christopher Francesconi said at a press conference. The student who was stabbed was treated at the …
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A man who beat a 66-year-old Sikh man to death while calling him “turban man” after a fender bender in New York City has been charged with manslaughter as a hate crime, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Gilbert Augustin, 30, also faces charges including assault as a hate crime and unlicensed driving …
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Four Philadelphia police officers were injured in a traffic incident Tuesday afternoon by a motorist they were trying to help, who then tried to run them down before being shot by police, MyFoxPhilly reported. The incident began when officers approached a sedan that had crashed into a wall in the …
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Atlanta police say they arrested a man suspected of stealing a vehicle, after officers chased him into a hospital and one of them fired his gun. POLICE, PROTESTORS CLASH NEAR SO-CALLED ‘COP CITY’ SITE IN ATLANTA When officers responded to a report of a possible stolen vehicle around 12:30 p.m. …
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A speeding vehicle rammed into jubilant supporters of President-elect Joseph Boakai at a victory celebration, killing at least three people and injuring at least 17 others, authorities said Tuesday. OPPOSITION CANDIDATE OFFICIALLY DECLARED LIBERIA’S PRESIDENT-ELECT AFTER INCUMBENT CONCEDES Police made an arrest following the crash late Monday but withheld the …
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Notorious South Carolina inmate Susan Smith reportedly told one of several suitors that she would make a “good stepmom” as her first parole hearing approaches in her life sentence for drowning her two boys. Smith, 52, also told her admirer on the recorded jailhouse phone call from Leath Correctional Institution …
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A Maryland jury will decide in the coming weeks whether a Prince George’s County police officer broke the law when he shot and killed a handcuffed man in 2020. A trial began Tuesday for Michael Owen Jr., who had served on the police force for 10 years when he became …
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A couple from Chicago “forced” four children to help them steal nearly $1,000 in merchandise from a suburban Macy’s store that has been an ongoing target of retail theft this holiday season, authorities said Wednesday. Angelo Almaraz, 26, of Chicago, and his 32-year-old domestic partner Thalia Morales, of Hammond, Indiana, …
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