Crime

An Arkansas woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she sold 20 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for nearly $11,000. The April 5 indictment, unsealed Friday in federal court in Little Rock, accuses Candace Chapman Scott, 36, a former mortuary worker, …

More than two full days after tech executive Bob Lee was fatally stabbed in downtown San Francisco, there still have no arrests or suspects named but the city’s police chef expressed confidence that his officers would solve the case. San Francisco police found Lee, 43, on the sidewalk in front …

New Hampshire’s highest court on Wednesday turned away the latest attempt to get a sentence reduction for Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage lover to have her husband killed in 1990. Smart, 55, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began …

Letter bombs were sent to at least five journalists working in TV and radio stations in violence-plagued Ecuador Monday, one of which exploded without causing serious injury, Interior Minister Juan Zapata said. The prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation into the crime of terrorism, without stating why the …

The Michigan State University Department of Police and Public Safety has released several updates related to last month’s shooting on campus that left three students dead and several more injured, including sharing photographs of a note that the gunman had in his pocket.  The gunman, identified as 43-year-old Anthony McRae, …

Three SWAT officers were shot Tuesday night while executing a search warrant at a Kansas City, Missouri, home, authorities said. It led to a standoff with the suspected gunman that was ongoing hours later, according to the CBS affiliate there, KCTV. The officers were in stable condition with non-life-threatening wounds, police said. …

A 72-year-old woman was arrested in North Carolina this week for allegedly beating her 8-year-old granddaughter to death, authorities said. The woman, identified as Patricia Ann Ricks, was the child’s legal guardian, according to the Nash County Sheriff’s Office, which said in a news release that the girl and “several …

A Connecticut judge sentenced a 55-year-old New Haven man to 120 years in prison for the gruesome slaying of a father and son, part of a murder case that spanned more than three decades and which the judge on Tuesday said included “a demonic level of violence and terror.” A …

A former Walmart employee wounded one of his ex-co-workers Thursday night in a shooting at the Evansville, Indiana, store where he used to work, police said. The 25-year-old man entered a nightly team meeting with a gun and told a group of about a dozen people to line up against …

A man who opened fire on a Brooklyn subway train last year, wounding 10 passengers in a rush-hour attack that shocked New York City, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal terrorism charges. Frank James, who had posted online that he was the “Prophet of Doom,” appeared in a Brooklyn federal court …