Tag: Crime
Activists sue big French retailer over Amazon forest damage
PARIS — Environmental groups and indigenous activists from the Amazon region filed a lawsuit Wednesday in a French court alleging that France-based supermarket chain...
Man gets 17 1/2 years in fatal Indiana workplace shooting
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a co-worker in 2019 at their southern Indiana workplace has been sentenced to...
Researcher under federal investigation for Chinese ties
BANGOR, Maine — A former scientist at The Jackson Laboratory in Farmington, Connecticut, is being investigated by the FBI for failing to disclose financial...
Reno homicide suspect arrested near Nevada-Oregon border
RENO, Nev. — Authorities in northern Nevada say a suspect in a Reno homicide was taken into custody over 200 miles (322 kilometers) away...
Autopsy: California’s ‘I-5 Strangler’ was strangled himself
IONE, Calif. — A California serial killer who authorities say strangled and raped at least seven women was fatally choked himself in a state...
Mississippi congressman Palazzo accused of misusing funds
WASHINGTON — An independent ethics body says there is "substantial reason to believe” that Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo of Mississippi abused his office by...
Three have life-threatening wounds after Sweden ax attack
STOCKHOLM — Hospital officials say three people wounded in an assault by a man using an ax in southern Sweden are in life-threatening condition...
Prosecutors seek validation of South Carolina abortion ban
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two of the prosecutors named as defendants in a federal lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions have argued...
Sweden says probe into knife attack looking at terror links
STOCKHOLM — Swedish authorities were investigating on Thursday whether an knife attack by an Afghan man who stabbed seven men and left three of...
Sarkozy rules out French presidential run after conviction
PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ruled out running again for office next year, a day after a court found him guilty...
