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 …
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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, …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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A woman who was imprisoned without parole for killing her daughter by throwing the infant in the trash after giving birth at her college sorority house should be resentenced, a divided Ohio Supreme Court has ruled. The justices also ordered that a different judge should handle the resentencing of Emile …
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Prosecutors investigating the slayings of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, have said that they have “good reason to believe” more than one person is connected to the killings. One suspect, Richard Matthew Allen, was arrested last month and charged with two counts of murder, but in a hearing on …
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Phoenix police were singing the praises of one of their own Monday, saying his “heroic actions” prevented “a possible shooting at a school.” They released video of the incident with the hashtag #ThisIsWhoWeAre. CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO-TV reported it took place Sept. 22. The station cites police as saying Desira Marce …
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