Tag: Law and order
Court: Defendant in teacher slaying has route to state funds
<p>SAVANNAH, Ga. — Georgia's highest court opened a door Monday for taxpayer funds to help cover the legal defense of a man awaiting trial...
Cities, groups aim to stop Ohio’s push for early census data
A coalition of cities, counties and civil rights groups sued the U.S. Census Bureau last year to stop it from ending the 2020 census...
Diverse jury so far for ex-cop’s trial in Floyd’s death
MINNEAPOLIS — The jurors seated so far in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death are a diverse...
Feds: WVa man sold devices to anti-government supporters
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty to a weapons charge after he was accused of selling machine gun conversion devices...
White supremacists’ fake bomb threats net 3 years in prison
<p>FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A former Old Dominion University student who joined up with white supremacists in a swatting conspiracy that targeted a Black...
Boy, 14, arrested in death of 6-year-old N Indiana girl
NEW CARLISLE, Ind. — A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the death of a 6-year-old northern Indiana girl found in a...
Once held in Iranian jail, ex-Marine fights espionage claims
WASHINGTON — After Amir Hekmati was released from Iranian custody in a 2016 deal trumpeted as a diplomatic breakthrough, he was declared eligible for...
Sexual orientation back in South Carolina hate crime bill
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group of South Carolina lawmakers have added back protections for gay or transgender people to a hate crime bill, five...
Ex-Mali coup leader won’t stand trial for 2012 killings
<p>BAMAKO, Mali — The man who overthrew Mali’s president in 2012, former Gen. Amadou Haya Sanogo, will no longer stand trial on charges he...
Kosovo war crimes suspect arrested by authorities in Belgium
<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Belgian authorities have arrested a Kosovo war crimes suspect indicted by prosecutors at a special court in The Hague, the...