By KATHY McCORMACK and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press Two men were killed and another was wounded in a shooting in a dorm room at South Carolina State University just four months after another deadly shooting at the campus. Henry L. Crittington, 19, died at the scene of the Thursday ...
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A judge sentenced an 18-year-old who acknowledged killing five people in a North Carolina mass shooting to life in prison without parole Friday, rejecting arguments that he deserved the chance for release decades from ...
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler has had a storied legal career. As a federal prosecutor, she helped successfully prosecute Enron executives including Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. She was part of President Barack Obama's ...
By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROGUE, La. (AP) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana on Friday downplayed the impact of President Donald Trump backing a GOP rival in a race that will test whether the the two-term senator can survive the president's quest to rid the party of ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Connecticut judge on Friday dismissed criminal charges against three current and former New Haven police officers who were accused of mistreating prisoner Richard "Randy" Cox after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van in 2022. Judge David Zagaja ...
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges Friday, following a protest at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official is a pastor. Four ...
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of killing four relatives in what prosecutors said was a murder and arson plot spawned by a soured business relationship between the man and his younger brother. Paul Caneiro, 59, was found guilty on four counts of ...
By TERRI LANGFORD and AIDAN JOHNSTONE/The Texas Tribune Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday announced he's taking up the case of a Houston doctor disciplined by the state's medical board last year for trying to treat a patient with ivermectin at a hospital where she did not have ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man from India admitted Friday that he conspired to hire a hitman to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader living in New York City, prompting a top federal prosecutor to warn anyone abroad against plotting to kill Americans ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal safety agency investigating an August blast at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh that left two workers dead said it found a series of incomplete, outdated or inadequate procedures and practices that "exposed" employees to the ...
By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of a crayon. Krystle Hickman crouches over with her specialized camera fitted to capture the minute details of the ...
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press A grand jury indicted an Arizona man on two counts of first degree felony murder and dozens of other charges stemming from a state helicopter crash that killed the pilot and a trooper during a shootout between the defendant and police, authorities said ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-ranking official in the New York Police Department has been charged with accepting $35,000 in cash, luxury travel perks and other bribes from a Florida businessman seeking to sell panic buttons to the city's public schools ...
By MELINA WALLING Associated Press MERAUX, La. (AP) — Across the calm waters behind a pumping station near Lake Borgne, hundreds of saplings stand out in the mist, wrapped in white plastic cylinders. To get there and to other sites like it, organizers have ferried dozens of volunteers ...
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The chilling videos of a masked man outside Nancy Guthrie's home in Arizona before she vanished show just glimpses of the suspect, but for investigators they hold a mountain of clues. And those images — from the suspect's gloves to his flashlight — ...
By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump has played many roles. Real estate developer. Marketing extraordinaire. Reality TV host. Candidate. President — twice. Another part has been constant through all of them: plaintiff. Trump both threatens lawsuits and files ...
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Virginia voters will get to cast ballots on a congressional redistricting plan benefiting Democrats while a court battle plays out over the legality of the effort. The Virginia Supreme Court said Friday that a statewide referendum can be held April 21 on ...
By RACHEL BECKER/CalMatters CalMatters Just weeks after a mountain lion wandered into San Francisco, state officials voted to permanently protect populations of the charismatic predators that prowl the coastal mountains between the Bay Area and the Mexican border. Mountain lions are one ...
By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run ...
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco teachers reached a tentative agreement Friday with the school district to end their strike, the first such walkout in nearly 50 years. San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su said schools will ...