Crime

A former model accused Sean "Diddy" Combs (above) of sexually assaulting her at his New York City recording studio in 2003 in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the latest in a series of allegations against the embattled hip-hop mogul. (Photo: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, file)

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of 2003 sexual assault in lawsuit

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Chantemekki Fortson (center), the mother of slain airman Roger Fortson, speaks during a news conference Thursday in Stonecrest, Georgia, describing details of the airman's death. (Photo: Mike Stewart/AP)

Funeral set for Roger Fortson, the Black US Air Force member killed in his home by Florida deputy

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A small shrine is pictured Monday in Fort Walton Beach, Florida at the door of an apartment where a deputy shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson. The shrine includes a long wooden plank, anchored by two sets of aviator wings and a black marker to leave thoughts, a Stella Artois, combat boots and an American flag. As the unit takes a day to grieve and prepare for a funeral Friday, May 17, questions remain about his shooting. (Photo: AP)

Questions and grief linger at the apartment door where a deputy killed a US airman

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Chantemekki Fortson, mother of Roger Fortson, a U.S. Air Force senior airman, holds a photo of her son during a news conference Thursday regarding his death, with Attorney Ben Crump (right), in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. (Photo: Gerald Herbert/AP)

Body camera video shows fatal shooting of Black airman by Florida deputy in apartment doorway

Chantemekki Fortson, with Ben Crump, walked into the Thursday news conference holding a portrait of her son in his dress uniform.
/ May 10, 2024
This photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Senior Airman Roger Fortson in a Dec. 2019 photo. The Air Force says the airman supporting its Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida was shot and killed on May 3 during an incident involving the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. (Photo: U.S. Air Force via AP)

Florida deputies who fatally shot Black US airman burst into wrong apartment, attorney says

Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3.
/ May 9, 2024
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a March 1st hearing on the Georgia election interference case in Atlanta. An attorney for Donald Trump says he’s optimistic an appellate review will lead to the Georgia 2020 election interference case against him being dismissed and Willis being disqualified. (Photo: Alex Slitz/AP, pool, file)

Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case

Trump and others tried to get Willis and her office removed, saying her relationship with the special prosecutor created a conflict of interest.
/ May 8, 2024
Toronto Police investigate a shooting outside the mansion of rapper Drake in Toronto's Bridle Path neighborhood on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Paramedics said a security guard working outside the home was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries in an overnight shooting. (Photo: Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Police investigating shooting outside Drake’s mansion that left security guard wounded

Authorities did not confirm whether Drake was at home in Toronto at the time of the shooting, but said the rapper’s team is cooperating.
/ May 8, 2024
Budtender Rey Cruz weighs cannabis for a customer at the Marijuana Paradise in Portland, Oregon last month. (Photo: Jenny Kane/AP)

What marijuana reclassification means for the United States

The switch is thought to be “paradigm-shifting, and it’s very exciting,” says Vince Sliwoski, an Oregon cannabis/psychedelics attorney.
/ May 1, 2024
Ralph Yarl looks at a badge that he received after walking at a May 2023 brain injury awareness event in Kansas City, Mo. The family of Yarl, who was shot when he mistakenly went to the wrong home in Kansas City, filed a lawsuit Monday against the white 84-year-old homeowner, an attempt to pursue justice from the “driver’s seat” and put pressure on the criminal trial scheduled for later this year, the family's attorney said. (Photo: Screenshot/KCTV via AP, file)

Family of a Black teen who was shot after ringing the wrong doorbell files lawsuit against homeowner

The complaint, filed by Cleo Nagbe on behalf of her son, Ralph Yarl, alleges that Andrew Lester was negligent when he shot the teen.
/ April 30, 2024
A Philadelphia Police car with flashing siren lights is shown. Police departments reported a year-over-year increase in sworn officers in 2023 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began and since the 2020 police killing of George Floyd spurred nationwide protests and increased scrutiny of police, according to a survey released by the Police Executive Research Forum. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP, file)

Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows

More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one of the previous four years, and fewer officers overall resigned or retired.
/ April 29, 2024