A judge threw out murder and other charges Tuesday against a former Philadelphia police officer accused of fatally shooting a Black man in the back as he fled, ruling the instructions given to a grand jury were flawed. Ryan Pownall, …
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A Minnesota woman is accused of a threatening to kill a Somali family while invading their St. Cloud-area home on two occasions, court documents say. Alyssa Holmberg, 33, of Ogilvie, is charged with bias-motivated assault and three other counts in …
A woman accused of being a member of the so-called “green goblin gang” that attacked two teenagers on a Manhattan subway train turned herself on Monday and was released Tuesday without bail. The NYPD said Mariam Issouf, 26, was arrested …
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Multiple schools went into lockdown across counties in Florida on Tuesday morning as police responded to false calls of active shooters. Police dispatches in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Orange counties received 911-calls on Tuesday morning reporting mass shootings and …
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The New York man accused of killing a Marist College father who was visiting his freshman son stormed into a Marriott Courtyard lobby wearing a ski mask, “Army-green” jacket and boxer shorts before opening fire with a fully automatic handgun, …
Former police officer James Brennand, who was fired last week after shooting a 17-year-old driver in a McDonald’s parking lot, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault by a public servant on Tuesday, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus …
A University of Miami fraternity has been shut down after a video surfaced purportedly showing its members saying an explicit chant at a party. In the video initially obtained by The Miami Hurricane, the Sigma Phi Epsilon members apparently chant …
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A bloody night in Philadelphia left a 13-year-old boy dead after he was shot in the head and another man wounded after he was shot in the head while inside a car with a toddler, authorities said Monday night. The …
A 14-year boy was killed and a second juvenile was injured in a midday shooting in Boston that Mayor Michelle Wu called “unacceptable.” Officers responding to reports of gunfire in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood just after noon on Monday found …
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The police shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old eating in his car at a McDonald’s parking lot last week was “not justified” and authorities expect to file criminal charges against the officer by the end of the week, San Antonio Police …