Crime

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

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

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Bling Bishop Lamar Miller-Whitehead’s trial is starting

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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

Alabama requests another nitrogen gas execution, a method some describe as death ‘by suffocation’

Alabama seeks to put Alan Eugene Miller to death using nitrogen gas, a month after the state carried its first…
/ February 22, 2024

In the nation’s first federal gender-based hate crime trial, prosecutors allege the defendant wanted to silence the deceased trans woman

The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity begins Tuesday in South Carolina, where a man…
/ February 20, 2024

Pennsylvania magistrate judge is charged with shooting her ex-boyfriend as he slept

Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight, who has been suspended since November, allegedly shot her estranged boyfriend in the head.
/ February 17, 2024

As 1994 crime bill turns 30, Secure DC Act fuels worry of repeated racial harms

Anti-crime measures in the Secure D.C. Act being considered raise concerns about its impact on Blacks living in the District…
/ February 16, 2024

Categorical clemency is needed to address systemic racism and injustice

Categorical clemency is a step toward acknowledging the ways the Black community has been targeted and harmed by mass incarceration.
/ February 15, 2024

Electrocution proposed as death penalty option in La. where electric chair is known as ‘Gruesome Gertie’

Like other reliably red states that have stalled executions, Louisiana lawmakers want to expand its methods to use the death…
/ February 15, 2024

FBI, DEA surge to Jackson, MS. to help police tackle high homicide rate, drug trafficking

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said they have come together around Operation Unified.
/ February 14, 2024

Man who attacked Las Vegas judge during sentencing now indicted by a grand jury for attempted murder

Deobra Redden was indicted for attempted murder among nine counts after an attack on Clark County District Court Judge Mary…
/ February 11, 2024