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Body of murdered teen boy found east of Ashfork

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:37:04 -0400

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona - Authorities in northern Arizona say they're investigating the murder of a 17-year-old Ashfork boy.

Thousands march in NY to protest gay man's killing

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:34:37 -0400

NEW YORK - Thousands marched the streets of Manhattan Monday to protest the killing of a gay man allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs - the most recent in a spate of bias attacks stirring up anxiety, disbelief and outrage in a famously gay-friendly neighborhood.

Officer shoots man outside NW Ind. health clinic

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:26:35 -0400

MERRILLVILLE, Indiana - A northwestern Indiana police officer has shot a man while issuing a citation for an illegally parked semitrailer.

Jackson concert director worked without contract

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:05:38 -0400

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's doctor was not the only person working on the singer's ill-fated "This Is It" tour without a fully executed contract, a corporate attorney for concert promoter AEG Live LLC testified Monday.

Bails stays at $1.5 million for SLC doctor

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:54:30 -0400

SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake City pediatrician charged last month with the 2011 killing of his ex-wife will remain in jail on a $1.5 million cash-only bail - at least for now.

Ill. Senate panel endorses ammunition limit

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:52:43 -0400

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois - Parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims testified Monday in favor of an Illinois limit on the size of ammunition magazines, a proposal that got a Senate committee endorsement.

Men report attack after snapping photo of Lillard

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:36:01 -0400

SALEM, Oregon - Two brothers allege that people standing near Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard assaulted them after one of the victims took a photo of the NBA Rookie of the Year.

3 Spokane officers involved in shooting

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:25:58 -0400

SPOKANE, Washington - Spokane police have released the names of three officers who were involved in the shooting of a homicide suspect last week.

Omaha task force probes 4 slayings 5 years apart

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:25:24 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - A federal, state and local task force is investigating the possibility that the killings of a Creighton University professor and his wife may be linked to the unsolved 2008 stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old boy and his family housekeeper, Omaha police announced Monday.

Dad of dead girl says he's unsure why home shot up

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:07:38 -0400

NORTH HIGHLANDS, California - A devastated father said Monday he had no idea why gunmen targeted his house, firing a barrage of bullets that killed his 10-year-old daughter as she watched TV from a chair near a picture window.

California man wanted in Alabama arrested in Ariz.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:01:33 -0400

SAN LUIS, Arizona - Federal authorities say a California man wanted in an Alabama murder case has been arrested near the southern Arizona border.

Correction: Maywood-College Student Killed story

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:59:10 -0400

MAYWOOD, Illinois - In a story May 16 about the shooting death of suburban Chicago high school athlete Deshawn McCarty, The Associated Press reported erroneously that McCarty attended North Dakota State University. He attended Dakota College at Bottineau in North Dakota.

Parents: Woman tricked into abortion struggling

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:42:20 -0400

TAMPA, Florida - The parents of a Tampa woman who says she was tricked by her boyfriend into taking a pill that led to a miscarriage spoke out Monday, saying no woman should ever have to endure such a "horrific act."

Jurors weigh man's sentence for highway shootings

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:41:41 -0400

HONOLULU - Jurors who found a Wahiawa man guilty of second-degree murder for a shooting at a Honolulu intersection are deliberating whether he should go to prison for the rest of his life.

NH man on trial in girlfriend's death

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:24:04 -0400

CONCORD, New Hampshire - A trial has started for a Pembroke man charged in the shooting death of his girlfriend in 2011.

Questions linger in shooting of NY college student

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:19:53 -0400

MINEOLA, New York - As a grieving family prepared for the funeral of a Hofstra University junior killed by a police officer's bullet during a standoff with an armed intruder, some on Monday questioned whether police should have waited for help, including a hostage negotiating team.

Anderson man shot to death in backyard

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:49:33 -0400

ANDERSON, South Carolina - A 40-year-old man is dead after being shot several times in the backyard of an Anderson home.

Arias attorneys will put one witness on: Arias

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:48:38 -0400

PHOENIX - Complaining that Jodi Arias' sensational murder case has become a modern-day "witch trial," her lawyers tried to quit in the middle of the death-penalty phase Monday, then said they will call only one witness: Arias.

Autopsy: Wake deputies shot mental patient in back

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:48:16 -0400

RALEIGH, North Carolina - An autopsy report says Wake County sheriff's deputies shot an unarmed mental patient four times, including once at point-blank range in the back.

NY man faces child abuse charges in Mass.

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:48:09 -0400

ARLINGTON, Massachusetts - A former Boston-area youth worker charged with sexually molesting children decades ago pleaded not guilty Monday and was held on $250,000 bail.

DC man gets 4 years for armed robbery of dog

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:33:27 -0400

WASHINGTON - An 18-year-old man has been sentenced to four years in prison after he stole a dog from a woman at gunpoint.

Neighbors: Home adjacent to murder scene searched

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:29:30 -0400

GROSSE POINTE PARK, Michigan - Residents in a Grosse Pointe Park neighborhood where a 35-year-old woman was found strangled say police have searched an adjacent home, arresting one man.

Ohioan accused of stabbing baby cousin held on $1M

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:12:26 -0400

SANDUSKY, Ohio - A 19-year-old man suspected of stabbing an 11-week-old baby to death with a kitchen knife is being held in a northern Ohio jail on bond of more than $1 million.

Va MS-13 gang leader convicted of ordering attacks

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:10:06 -0400

RICHMOND, Virginia - A federal jury has convicted the leader of a Richmond-area MS-13 gang for ordering two teenagers to shot a man as part of a gang initiation and to attack another man.

Driver who hit officer with car shot, killed

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:59:28 -0400

NORFOLK, Virginia - Norfolk police have shot and killed a man who struck an officer with his car.