Tag Archives: Crime

More than half a century after Captain James Tappen Hall was fatally shot in Rockville, Maryland, in 1971, police have located and arrested a suspect who confessed to the murder earlier this month, they announced on Wednesday. During a news conference, where some of Hall’s loved ones also appeared, officers …

A Georgia juvenile corrections officer was arrested after allegedly allowing juveniles in his facility to play a “fight game,” which led to the death of a youth, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.  Thomas Lee Hicks, 30, was charged with one count of murder in the 2nd degree, two counts …

A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the White woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and an unpublished memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday. After hearing more than seven …

A man who allegedly shot a woman in the neck was killed this weekend when the bullet also hit him, Dallas police said. Dallas Police officers responded late Saturday morning to reports of a shooting at a residence in the city. Officers found a “large amount of blood and a …

A suspect has been arrested in an “ambush” shooting Thursday night in which one police officer was killed and a second wounded in Rochester, New York, officials said. The officers were sitting in a parked car as part of a plainclothes tactical unit when a gunman opened fire on them …

The family of an 11-year-old boy who died on a water ride at an Iowa amusement park a year ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit in state court Thursday, alleging the park failed to properly maintain and repair its rides. David and Sabrina Jaramillo, of Cedar Rapids and three of …

Chicago —  A prosecutor has asked a federal judge to sentence Jerry Harris, a former star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” to 15 years in prison for coercing teenage boys to send him obscene photos and videos of themselves and soliciting sex from minors at cheerleading competitions. Attorneys for …

Officials in the eastern Idaho city of Idaho Falls have agreed to pay $11.7 million to a man who spent about two decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted. The Idaho Falls City Council voted Thursday to accept the settlement agreement with Christopher Tapp. Tapp was convicted of rape and …

Two people were shot at a cemetery south of Milwaukee on Thursday, police said, the latest in a series of shootings nationwide in recent weeks. Racine police described the shooting as a “critical” incident and urged people to stay away. Police said multiple shots were fired in the direction of …

A Georgia man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for hiding the body of a popular high school teacher whose disappearance baffled family, friends and investigators in her rural hometown for more than a decade. Ryan Alexander Duke was sentenced in Irwin County Superior Court just three days …