Fourteen years after authorities found Faith Hedgepeth dead, the 19-year-old’s final hours have been unfolding in a North Carolina courtroom, where tearful testimony and questions about missing evidence marked the opening days of a murder trial. Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares, 33, …

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A man in Nantucket, Massachusetts was arrested on Thursday after allegedly trafficking children, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Rigoberto Chavez-Regaldo, 40, was arrested in the early morning on Oct. 8 in a multi-agency operation that involved the alleged trafficking …

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Catholics serving in the Army should request to be excused from participating in the planned firing squad execution of a convicted Fort Hood mass shooter, which the Pentagon has proposed livestreaming, a prominent U.S. archbishop who oversees Catholic pastoral services …

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A New York man pleaded guilty to murdering and dismembering his ex-girlfriend and putting her severed head in a suitcase with a flower after she ended their relationship, later telling investigators she had “played me like a sucker,” according to …

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A Facebook Marketplace jewelry listing was linked to a late-night armed robbery at a home in affluent Franklin, Tennessee, where police pursued three fleeing suspects, authorities said. Officers responded to a home in northeast Franklin just after 11 p.m. Friday, …

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A woman whose coworker was convicted of poisoning her is releasing the hidden-camera video that helped catch him, just as he asks a judge to dismiss his felony conviction. According to prosecutors, David Xu, who previously worked as a senior …

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A murder suspect accused of stabbing and killing a transit worker outside a train station in a daytime attack allegedly had prior run-ins with the law. Chevazz Campbell, 37, is accused of stabbing and killing Julian Mobley, 41, a husband …

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A New York man is accused of slashing the throat of a female coworker while she was giving him a ride home, according to police. Saratoga Springs police said they responded Friday to a report of a car that crashed …

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A trailblazing former San Francisco deputy police chief is dead, alongside her daughter in an apparent murder-suicide carried out by her husband, a retired police sergeant, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities have identified the deceased as Ann …

Retired police sergeant shoots deputy chief wife and their daughter in wealthy, coastal enclave home Read more »