TUSCUMBIA — A man set to go to trial Feb. 10 on multiple drug charges in Franklin County was arrested this week on a Colbert County indictment for separate drug charges, according to court records.
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A pizza deliverer in central Florida has been charged with pushing her way into a motel room with an accomplice and stabbing a pregnant woman after a dispute over a tip, authorities said.
ROME — Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century celebration that is expected to bring about 32 million pilgrims to Rome.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, …
NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder and terror charges while his attorney complained that comments coming from New York’s mayor would make it tough to receive a fair trial.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin 15-year-old who shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student Monday was only in her first semester at the school but seemed to be settling in, a school official said Thursday as families of the victims remembered them as people of faith who had deep conne…
HOUSTON (AP) — The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of states, including Alabama, which became the first state to use nitrogen gas as an execution method, according to an annual report on capital punishment.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia sheriff was convicted this week on federal bribery charges for deputizing individuals in exchange for cash payments.
HUNTSVILLE — A Lexington business owner pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official a day after he entered into another guilty plea in a separate case in which he was charged with three counts of money laundering.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a man in California who authorities say was planning to attack a government building, according to authorities and court documents that …
NEW YORK (AP) — The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was whisked back to New York by plane and helicopter Thursday to face new federal charges of murder and stalking, escalating the case after his earlier state indictment.
UVALDE, Texas — A Texas judge on Thursday refused to throw out criminal charges accusing the former Uvalde schools police chief of putting children at risk during a slow response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.
MONTGOMERY (AP) — A former Alabama police sergeant was sentenced to over a year in federal prison with nearly two years of supervised release after pleading guilty in August to beating a man in a jail cell.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin police did not plan any public updates Wednesday into the extremely rare religious school shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others, a day after the city’s mayor chastised reporters and urged them to leave victims alone.
MADISON, Wis. — The motive for a shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded others at a Wisconsin school appears to be a “combination of factors,†a police chief said Tuesday as he appealed to the public to share what they might know about the 15-year-old girl who attacked a st…
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — The New York architect facing murder charges in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings was charged on Tuesday in the death of a seventh woman.
NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from from a Pennsylvania jail.
MADISON, Wis. — A teenage student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another teenage student in the final week before Christmas break. The shooter also died, police said.
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — The largest seafood distributor on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and two of its managers have been sentenced on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish, weeks after a restaurant and its co-owner were also sentenced.
ATLANTA — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others on Friday rejected an attempt by former Trump campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro to invalidate his guilty plea.
TUSCUMBIA — The attorney representing the man accused of capital murder in the death of Sheffield Police Sgt. Nick Risner filed a subpoena request Thursday involving three Huntsville television stations that have been covering the case, according to court documents.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh are taking two paths to appeal his murder convictions for killing his wife and son, saying that a court clerk pushed a guilty verdict to jurors to sell books and that the trial judge allowed improper evidence like the disgraced South Carolina lawyer…
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The gun found on the suspect in the killing of United Healthcare’s CEO matched shell casings found at the site of the shooting, New York City’s police commissioner said Wednesday.
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggled with deputies and shouted Tuesday while arriving for a court appearance in Pennsylvania, a day after he was arrested at a McDonald’s and charged with murder.
NEW YORK (AP) — Police arrested a “strong person of interest†Monday in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO after a quick-thinking McDonald’s employee in Pennsylvania alerted authorities to a customer who was found with a weapon and writings linking him to the ambush.
FLORENCE — Bond has been revoked for a man charged with assault in a Nov. 29 shooting that struck a man in the leg, authorities said.
NEW YORK (AP) — As the investigation into a masked gunman who stalked and killed the head of one of the largest U.S. health insurers moved into its third day Friday, possible leads emerged about his travel before the shooting and a message scrawled on ammunition found at the crime scene.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A protester who suffered eye damage when a rubber bullet fired by Fort Lauderdale police struck her in the face during a 2020 protest over George Floyd’s murder has received $2 million from the city to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the officer and the department o…
NEW YORK (AP) — The masked gunman who stalked and killed the leader of one of the largest U.S. health insurance companies outside a Manhattan hotel used ammunition emblazoned with the words “deny,†“defend†and “depose,†a law enforcement official said Thursday.
NEW YORK (AP) — UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed Wednesday morning in a “brazen, targeted attack†outside a Manhattan hotel where the health insurer was holding its investor conference, police said, rattling the city and setting off a massive dragnet hours before the annual Rockefe…
FLORENCE — Not everybody is in the spirit of giving this season.
FLORENCE — Two men were indicted on drug trafficking charges by a Lauderdale County grand jury, according to court records.
FLORENCE — Defense attorneys for Lauderdale County Circuit Court Judge Gil Self this week opposed the prosecution's motions to exclude three types of evidence from the case.
FLORENCE — Police said a man officers found asleep behind the steering wheel of his vehicle after hitting a parked vehicle had methamphetamine in his possession.
DENVER — Amid renewed interest in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey triggered in part by a new Netflix documentary, police in Boulder, Colorado, refuted assertions this week that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old girl that they are not pursuing.
MONTGOMERY — An Alabama man charged with killing four people in September has now been charged with capital murder in a separate quadruple homicide that took place in July, according to law enforcement officials.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two tax preparers submitted $65 million in false claims for refunds under programs designed to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal prosecutors in Tennessee said Wednesday.
DAKAR, Senegal — Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in Africa during a massive two-month operation, clamping down on cybercrime that left tens of thousands of victims, including some who were trafficked, and produced millions in financial damages, the global police organization said Tuesday.
COURTLAND — Three Lauderdale County men are being accused of stealing up to $100,000 worth of copper from the former International Paper plant site.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The owners of a Colorado funeral home who let nearly 200 bodies decay in a room-temperature building and gave grieving families fake ashes pleaded guilty on Friday to corpse abuse.
WATERLOO — Four people were arrested by agents of the Lauderdale County Drug Task Force after more than 2 pounds of crystal methamphetamines were found inside a residence Wednesday on Alabama Highway 20.
MONTGOMERY — Thieves were able to break into the top portion of a credit union ATM, insert a USB drive into the ATM computer to force it to dispense all of its cash.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019 and lied to police.
ATHENS, Ga. — A Venezuelan man has been convicted of murder in the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that fueled the national debate over immigration during this year’s presidential race.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A parole board decided unanimously Wednesday that Susan Smith should remain in prison, despite her plea that God has forgiven her for infamously killing her two young sons 30 years ago by rolling her car into a South Carolina lake while they were strapped in their car seats.
TUSKEGEE (AP) — The parents of an 18-year-old who was killed in a hail of gunfire at Tuskegee University filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday, saying the school failed to provide adequate security measures that could have prevented the fatal shooting.
TUSKEGEE (AP) — A man charged Thursday in federal court with illegally possessing a machine gun was driving in a crowd at Tuskegee University when gunfire was seen coming from the car in a shooting that left one dead and dozens wounded, according to court documents.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama is planning to carry out the nation’s third execution with nitrogen gas as critics argue the method needs more scrutiny before it is used to put another person to death.
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Re-Entry Commission discussed Tuesday the underreporting of crime data from local municipalities, and its potential impact on reducing recidivism.
SHEFFIELD — A Killen woman is accused of illegal drug trafficking after Colbert County Drug Task Force agents found more than 2,600 pressed fentanyl pills inside the vehicle she was driving Thursday afternoon.
LEIGHTON — A Leighton man whose trial in a 2023 drug case was recently continued now faces another drug charge following the execution of a search warrant of his residence on Wednesday.
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