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November 21, 2019

Death penalty sought for man accused of killing prostitutes

Prosecutors in Florida announced Thursday that they will seek the death penalty against a man who they say preyed on ...

November 21, 2019

Soldier who shot Lebanese protester dead charged with murder

A Lebanese soldier who shot and killed a protester in Beirut last week was charged Thursday by a military prosecutor with ...

November 21, 2019

Spain: Court extends jail for ex-colonel in priests' deaths

Spain’s National Court has extended the detention period for a former Salvadoran colonel who was allegedly involved in the ...

November 21, 2019

SEALs face review following death of Islamic State militant

Navy officials on Wednesday notified a SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State militant and three of his superior ...

November 21, 2019

Ex-Houston officers face federal charges in deadly drug raid

Two former Houston police officers are facing federal charges accusing them of providing false information in a January drug ...

November 20, 2019

Police: Mother took daughter from care facility, killed her

An elderly woman who feared she was developing dementia removed her mentally disabled adult daughter from a care facility, ...

November 20, 2019

Malta arrests ‘person of interest’ in journalist slaying

Authorities in Malta on Wednesday arrested a prominent Maltese businessman who appears to be a “person of interest” in the ...

November 20, 2019

Brazil police say cop to blame for 8-year-old girl’s death

A police officer fired the shot that killed an 8-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro this year, authorities said Tuesday, a ...

November 19, 2019

Woman pleads guilty in 3 sons’ deaths, sentenced to 37 years

An Ohio woman accused of suffocating her three sons out of jealousy at the attention given them by her husband — who was once ...

November 19, 2019

Police: Oklahoma double-murder suicide was domestic-related

A man confronted his ex-wife and another man in an Oklahoma Walmart parking lot, shot and killed them both through the ...

November 19, 2019

Rancher gets life in prison in beating death of his fiancee

A Colorado rancher was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday shortly after a jury convicted him of beating his ...

November 19, 2019

Police: Home in California backyard shooting was targeted

Two men with semiautomatic handguns targeted a backyard gathering of family and friends in Fresno, spraying bullets that ...

November 19, 2019

Police chief: 3 people killed in Oklahoma Walmart shooting

Two men and a woman were fatally shot Monday morning outside a Walmart store in southwestern Oklahoma, and the shooter is ...

November 18, 2019

Judge denies DNA testing sought 13 years post-execution

The daughter of a man executed 13 years ago for murder does not have legal standing to seek DNA testing of evidence in the ...

November 17, 2019

Parents, 3 sons die in apparent murder-suicide in San Diego

A husband and wife and three of their young children died Saturday morning at the family’s San Diego home in what police ...

November 16, 2019

Texas appeals court blocks inmate Rodney Reed’s execution

Texas’ top criminal appeals court on Friday halted the scheduled execution of inmate Rodney Reed, whose conviction is being ...

November 16, 2019

Real estate heiress who posted $35M bail acquitted of murder

A San Francisco Bay Area real estate heiress who was under house arrest on $35 million bail for more than two years plans to ...

November 15, 2019

Man convicted in 3 deaths; bodies were burned in pig roaster

A man was convicted Friday for his role in the slayings of three young men who were lured to a suburban Philadelphia farm ...

November 15, 2019

5 suspects arrested in Halloween Airbnb party shooting

Four men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder in the deaths of five people in a shooting at a Halloween party at an ...