Crime

Houston police chief apologizes for department not investigating 264K cases due to staffing issues

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Michigan appeals court stands by ruling that ex-officer who shot Patrick Lyoya in the head while on top of him should be tried for murder

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Memphis judge postpones state trial in Tyre Nichols death until end of federal trial

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Darius McLean and spouse Celena Morrison, director of Philadelphia's Office of LGBT Affairs

Trooper charged at LGBTQ advocate Celena Morrison ‘like a linebacker,’ lawyer says

Morrison and husband Darius McLean, who runs an LGBTQ+ community center in Philadelphia, plan to file suit over Saturday's traffic…
/ March 8, 2024
William Franklin is greeted by family members upon his release

William Franklin, a Black man who spent four decades in prison, released after witness said police offered him sex for fake testimony

Franklin's conviction for a 1976 murder was overturned following recantation by a key witness of his testimony several years ago.
/ March 6, 2024

78-year-old Black woman Ruby Johnson wins $3.8M verdict after SWAT team searched wrong home

The owner of a stolen truck with an iPhone inside mistakenly tracked the phone to Johnson's home using the Find…
/ March 5, 2024

Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s killing in rare case against medical responders

Two paramedics were convicted in December of criminally negligent homicide for injecting Elijah McClain with ketamine in 2019.
/ March 3, 2024

Police body cam footage of Isaac Goodlow III, shot dead in bed, is released

Isaac Goodlow III died at a hospital after he was shot by officers Feb. 3 in Carol Stream, Illinois, as…
/ March 2, 2024

Isaac Goodlow shot ‘directly in his heart’ in his bed by police, family says

Officers responding to a domestic violence call fatally shot Goodlow around 4:15 a.m. Feb. 3 in his home in the…
/ February 29, 2024

Stolen parts of MLK memorial recovered in Denver after being sold for scrap

Police say because items were taken from two memorials and sold as scrap metal, they don't believe it was a…
/ February 28, 2024

Bling Bishop Lamar Miller-Whitehead’s trial is starting

Prosecutors say Miller-Whitehead looted a parishioner's retirement fund and tried to extort a businessman to fuel his lavish lifestyle.
/ February 26, 2024

South Carolina man guilty in Black transgender woman’s killing in 1st federal hate crime trial over gender identity

Jurors found that Daqua Ritter fatally shot Dime Doe on Aug. 4, 2019, in Allendale, South Carolina because of her…
/ February 24, 2024

Woman gets more than 20 years for striking, killing NYPD detective while drunk driving

Jessica Beauvais struck and killed a New York City police detective in 2021 after speeding through an NYPD roadblock while driving drunk.
/ February 24, 2024

Trial over Black transgender woman’s death in rural South Carolina focuses on secret relationship

A Black transgender woman and the guy she was secretly dating had just been pulled over in rural South Carolina.…
/ February 23, 2024

Orphanage founder accused of child sex abuse to be sent from Colorado to Florida

Orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld is accused of traveling to Haiti to engage "in any illicit sexual conduct with another person…
/ February 22, 2024