Crime

A 15-year-old boy shot and killed three siblings at a home near Fairbanks, Alaska, and was found dead with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities announced Wednesday. Alaska State Troopers in a statement said they received a report of shots being fired at a Fairbanks home on Tuesday afternoon. The …

The White gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket pleaded not guilty Monday to federal hate crime charges that could be punishable by the death penalty. Payton Gendron was indicted last week on hate crimes and weapons counts. The plea was …

A member of Haiti’s 400 Mawozo gang has been charged in connection with the 2021 kidnapping of 17 missionaries, 16 of whom are American, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Jean Pelice, 27, is charged with hostage taking. According to the Justice Department, Pelice, also known as “Zo,” and other members …

Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment investigation, was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes. He was also ordered to pay $2.3 million in restitution to his victims.  Parnas, who …

The bodies of two Canadians were found in an apartment in the Mexican resort city of Playa del Carmen, their throats apparently slit, prosecutors and police announced Monday. A security guard was also injured at the tourist apartment complex, which is located in the center of the city, the state …

Authorities said a 26-year-old man was in custody after one person was killed and seven people were injured in a shooting early Sunday at an outdoor festival in Taft, Oklahoma, where witnesses described frantic people running for cover amid gunfire. An arrest warrant was issued for Skyler Buckner and he …

In the five months Jennifer Anne Hall was a respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center, the rural Missouri hospital experienced 18 “code blue” incidents — an alarming increase in sudden cardiac arrest events for a hospital that historically averaged one of them a year, according to a police investigator.   …

A western New York state man imprisoned for the past six decades for strangling and raping a teenage girl has been granted parole at age 88. James Moore, a former landscaper from the Rochester area, is scheduled to be released around June 6, after the state parole board granted him …

A woman was arrested this week in Texas for the 1996 stabbing death of her boyfriend in Southern California, authorities said Wednesday. The arrest came two years after police received an anonymous letter implicating Jade Benning as being involved in the murder.  Benning, 48, was taken into custody Tuesday near …

Police in North Dakota said Wednesday they have arrested a woman who was the former roommate of an 18-year-old college student who was killed nearly 15 years ago. Anita Knutson, a student at Minot State University, was found stabbed to death in her apartment on June 4, 2007. The Minot …