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The White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2008. Ron Edmonds/AP hide caption toggle caption Ron Edmonds/AP A man who was brandishing a firearm in Washington, D.C., was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House on Sunday morning, the Secret Service said. The man, who is thought to have been traveling from Indiana, had […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw as preferable to the electric chair or lethal injection. Three volunteer prison employees used rifles to carry […]
A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia will not be charged for fatally shooting a Black man during a traffic stop that turned violent in 2023, officials said on Tuesday. The man who was killed, Leonard Cure, 53, had been wrongfully imprisoned in Florida for 16 years. The Camden County Sheriff’s Office said in a post on […]
American costume designer for theatre, dance, film, opera and television, Paul Tazewell, has made Oscars history with his stunning costume design for Wicked. At the 97th Academy Awards, held Sunday night, Tazewell became the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Costume Design. “This is absolutely astounding. Thank you, Academy, for this very […]
Joseph Czuba faces life in prison for the murder of 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi days after Israel’s war on Gaza began. A jury in the US state of Illinois has convicted a man of murder and hate crime charges for the October 2023 stabbing death of a six-year-old Palestinian American boy. Joseph Czuba, 73, who was […]
CNN  — More than two years after a quadruple homicide devastated Moscow, Idaho, a judge unsealed the transcript of a recent hearing in the case against Bryan Kohberger – the man accused of stabbing four students to death in an off-campus home.
An 86-year-old Missouri man died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced on Wednesday. Andrew Lester of Kansas City had been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting […]
NEW YORK: Six US prison workers accused of beating to death a handcuffed Black inmate were indicted Thursday on second-degree murder charges, in a case that has sparked outrage. Robert Brooks’s death at New York’s Marcy Correctional Facility in December 2024 was caught on the officers’ bodycams. The footage showed several officers restraining a man, […]
An 86-year-old Missouri man who admitted to shooting a Black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell has died before his sentencing, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Andrew Lester pleaded guilty last Friday to felony assault in connection with the April 2023 shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl. Yarl, who survived gunshot wounds to the head and arm, has […]
An 86-year-old Missouri man who admitted to shooting a Black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell has died before his sentencing, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Andrew Lester pleaded guilty last Friday to felony assault in connection with the April 2023 shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl. Yarl, who survived gunshot wounds to the head and arm, has […]