Tag: Law and order
Autopsy: California’s ‘I-5 Strangler’ was strangled himself
<p>IONE, Calif. — A California serial killer who authorities say strangled and raped at least seven women was fatally choked himself in a state...
Settlement reached in Indiana police pursuit, deadly crash
CROWN POINT, Ind. — A $1.2 million settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit filed over a high-speed police chase that ended with...
Prosecutors seek validation of South Carolina abortion ban
<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two of the prosecutors named as defendants in a federal lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions have argued...
Activists sue big French retailer over Amazon forest damage
PARIS — Environmental groups and indigenous activists from the Amazon region filed a lawsuit Wednesday in a French court alleging that France-based supermarket chain...
Nearly 100 on trial in Sicily for suspected Mafia EU fraud
<p>ROME — A trial began in Sicily on Tuesday for 97 suspected Mafia members and white-collar professionals allegedly in cahoots with mobsters in what...
EU’s court deals setback to Barcelona, Madrid in tax case
<p>BRUSSELS — The European Union's top court dealt a blow to Barcelona, Real Madrid and two other Spanish soccer clubs on Thursday by upholding...
Man gets 17 1/2 years in fatal Indiana workplace shooting
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a co-worker in 2019 at their southern Indiana workplace has been sentenced to...
Civil suit in U.S. over British teen’s death can proceed
FALLS CHURCH. Va. — A federal judge in Virginia has again rejected an American diplomatic couple's efforts to toss out a lawsuit in the...
Exxon Mobil ordered to pay $14.25M penalty in pollution case
<p>HOUSTON — A federal judge ordered Exxon Mobil to pay a $14.25 million civil penalty Tuesday in an 11-year-old lawsuit alleging it violated the...
Sweden says probe into knife attack looking at terror links
<p>STOCKHOLM — Swedish authorities were investigating on Thursday whether an knife attack by an Afghan man who stabbed seven men and left three of...