Tag: Homicide
With striking of Black juror, Floyd activists see racism
MINNEAPOLIS — A prospective juror who once lived in the neighborhood where George Floyd was arrested told the attorney for an ex-officer charged in...
New Mexico gang member convicted of murder, racketeering
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal court jury has convicted a self-admitted member of a New Mexico prison gang of ordering and participating in the...
Man who killed 2 at supermarket pleads guilty to hate crimes
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky man serving a life sentence in prison for fatally shooting two shoppers at a grocery store has pleaded guilty...
EXPLAINER: Why Georgia attack spurs fears in Asian Americans
Chicago — The shootings at three Georgia massage parlors and spas that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, come...
Prosecutor: Louisiana man tried to kill, dismember gay man
NEW ORLEANS — A southwest Louisiana man was charged with federal hate crime and kidnapping charges Thursday by prosecutors who said he tried to...
Scientists in US and Canada set to battle murder hornets
SPOKANE, Wash. — Scientists in the U.S. and Canada are opening new fronts in the war against so-called murder hornets as the giant insects...
San Diego seeking families of homeless men killed in crash
SAN DIEGO — San Diego officials released the names of two men killed when a driver crashed into a sidewalk homeless encampment and are...
3 indicted in Vegas in 2-state Thanksgiving shooting rampage
LAS VEGAS — Three people from Texas were indicted Wednesday in Las Vegas on charges including murder and terrorism stemming from a series of...
Jury nearly complete for Chauvin trial; major rulings loom
MINNEAPOLIS — Just two more jurors were needed for the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death, as the...
3 men ages 40 to 65 in homeless camp killed by driver
SAN DIEGO — The three people killed when a driver plowed through a homeless camp on a sidewalk in downtown San Diego were all...
