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Arrests in New Orleans parade shootings cheered
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Days after a burst of gunfire brought a chaotic and bloody end to a Mother’s Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans, news of six arrests gave an organizer of the traditional […]
Teen charged with homicide by assault in ref death
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family and friends honored the memory of a Utah soccer referee at an emotional funeral service Wednesday evening just hours after the teenager who punched him before he fell into […]
OC DA to start shaming for convicted johns
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Orange County’s district attorney says he’ll fight prostitution by naming and shaming johns.
DA looks for links between bomb suspect, slaying
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Investigators in a Boston suburb are looking into whether there are links between a suspect in last week’s Boston Marathon bombing and an unsolved 2011 slaying.
MIT campus police killed in campus shooting
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A police officer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been shot and killed at the campus outside of Boston, authorities said early Friday. A manhunt is on for the shooter.
Calif. woman goes on trial in severed penis case
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California prosecutor says a jealous wife yelled “You deserve it” before severing her estranged husband’s penis with a 10-inch kitchen knife and throwing it in a garbage disposal.
UPDATE: Ex-judge’s wife confessed in DA deaths
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — The wife of a former North Texas judge was charged with capital murder after confessing to her involvement in the three shooting deaths of the local district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor, authorities said Wednesday.
Texas wife of ex-judge charged with capital murder
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — The wife of a former judge was charged Wednesday with capital murder in connection with the slayings of a North Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor, a law enforcement official said.
Police: Former Texas official emailed threat
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Authorities investigating the murders of a Texas prosecutor and his wife believe a former county official sent a threatening email to law enforcement officers one day after the killings.
Cold case arrest prompts cross-country probe
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Los Angeles cold case detectives caught up with Samuel Little this past fall, he was living in a shelter in Kentucky, his latest arrest a few months earlier for alleged possession of a crack pipe.



















