A Las Vegas-area elected public official was ordered to be held without bail after he was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in June. Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody …
Read More »“Fearless” Las Vegas investigative journalist Jeff German stabbed to death outside his home
A Las Vegas investigative reporter was stabbed to death outside his home and police are looking for a suspect, authorities said. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers found journalist Jeff German, 69, dead with stab wounds around 10:30 a.m. Saturday after authorities received a 911 call, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. …
Read More »Officer takes loaded handgun from student while breaking up fight at California high school
Stockton, Calif. — A loaded gun was found and taken from a student during a fight at Lincoln High School here on Monday, CBS Sacramento reports. Stockton police say officers responded to the school around 12:30 p.m. Exactly what caused the fight is unclear, but Stockton police say a student …
Read More »Texas car dealer Erik Charles Maund charged with murder
Months after an Austin car dealership executive was arrested for allegedly arranging the murder of his mistress and her boyfriend, federal prosecutors have charged him and three of his associates with murder-for-hire. On Thursday, Erik Charles Maund, 47, Gilad Peled, 48, Bryon Brockway, 47, and Adam Carey, 31, were also …
Read More »Beau Rothwell sentenced to life in prison for killing wife who had searched online “what to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant”
A Missouri man convicted in the death of his pregnant wife whose battered body was found about a week after she was reported missing was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. A jury in April found Beau Rothwell, 31, of Creve Coeur, guilty of first-degree murder, tampering with …
Read More »Arrest warrant for Emmett Till’s accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham found nearly 70 years later
A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a White woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and Till’s relatives who initiated the search want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. A warrant for …
Read More »Deshaun Watson settles 20 of 24 civil lawsuits, remaining 4 expected to go to trial
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has reached an agreement to settle 20 of the 24 civil lawsuits that have been filed by women who accused him of crimes including harassment and sexual assault, an attorney for the women said Tuesday. “Today I announce that all cases against Deshaun Watson, with …
Read More »Frank Atwood executed in Arizona for 1984 murder of 8
An Arizona inmate convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl was executed Wednesday in the state’s second execution since officials started carrying out the death penalty in May after a nearly eight-year hiatus. Frank Atwood, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for his …
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A suspect in the 1984 killing of a South Boston man that authorities say was linked to mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s control of the drug trade in the neighborhood is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. Michael Lewis, 61, faces a first-degree murder charge in Suffolk Superior Court in connection with …
Read More »New York City to pay $10.5 million to Shawn Williams, who spent 24 years in prison after wrongful murder conviction
New York City will pay $10.5 million dollars to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who spent 24 years in prison on a murder conviction that was overturned after a witness who had placed him at the crime scene recanted, city officials said Thursday. The conviction …
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