Tag: Violent crime
Chauvin could face decadeslong sentence in Floyd’s death
MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin learns his sentence Friday for murder in George Floyd' s death, closing a chapter in...
French woman stands trial for murder of decades-long abuser
CHALON-SUR-SAONE, France — A mother of four children is on trial in France for killing her husband after decades of sexual, physical and psychological...
Indiana woman, 82, found stabbed to death in lakeside home
ANGOLA, Ind. — Police are investigating the slaying of an 82-year-old woman whose stabbing death inside her lakeside home is the first homicide in...
Aid group MSF ‘horrified’ as colleagues murdered in Ethiopia
NAIROBI, Kenya — The medical charity Doctors Without Borders says it is “horrified by the brutal murder” of three colleagues in Ethiopia’s Tigray region,...
Weapon being tested to see if it was used to kill Texas boy
HOUSTON — Investigators have recovered a weapon that may have been used to kill a 5-year-old Houston boy whose body was allegedly kept in...
Indiana man gets 127 years in woman’s 2019 torture-slaying
GOSHEN, Ind. — A man has been sentenced to 127 years in prison for his role in the 2019 torture-slaying of a northern Indiana...
3 Honolulu police officers face charges in fatal shooting
HONOLULU — Three Honolulu police officers appeared in court on Friday to face charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Micronesian...
Minnesota AG after Chauvin’s sentence: ‘It’s time to act’
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Friday that he's hoping a judge's 22 1/2-year sentence imposed on former police Officer Derek Chauvin will be...
29-year-old man convicted again of murdering 6-week-old son
COVINGTON, La. — A 29-year-old New Orleans man has been convicted a second time of murdering one of his infant twin sons in the...
Brothers charged in man’s shooting in mall parking lot
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Two South Bend brothers face charges in connection with a shooting that injured a man last month at a...
