The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday. Mark David Chapman, 67, appeared before a parole board at the end of August, according to the state Department of Corrections …
Read More »Skeletal remains found 37 years ago in Tennessee identified as missing Indiana girl
Authorities have positively identified skeletal remains found nearly four decades ago in Tennessee as belonging to a missing Indiana teenager. Now, they are trying to figure out how the girl ended up hundreds of miles from home. On April 3, 1985, authorities discovered the remains of a White female, likely …
Read More »Man arrested in connection with “gruesome” murder of couple found dead in their Washington home
The man wanted in connection with the killing of a Washington couple was arrested Sunday night in Tacoma, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office. Shaun D. Rose was arrested by Tacoma police at a gas station around 8 p.m. Sunday, according to a sheriff’s office Facebook post. Rose was …
Read More »Southern Baptists say denomination is facing DOJ investigation
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday that several of the denomination’s major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice in the wake of its multiple problems related to clergy sex abuse. The SBC’s Executive Committee has received a subpoena, but no individuals have been subpoenaed at …
Read More »Library officer shot and killed by retired D.C. police lieutenant during training, official says
A retired police lieutenant allegedly shot and killed an officer during training at a library in Washington, D.C., Thursday afternoon. It is not clear how or why the shooting happened, D.C. police chief Robert J. Contee said during a press conference. Authorities responded to a reported shooting at the Anacostia …
Read More »Misael Sanchez dies after being injured in brawl at soccer game
A man who was injured in a brawl that broke out at a high school soccer game in Oxnard died Monday, police said. Police said Misael Sanchez, 29, of Port Hueneme, died more than two weeks after an on-field fight, involving both players and spectators, erupted over a referee’s decision during …
Read More »Mississippi’s attorney general has no plan to prosecute Carolyn Bryant Donham over role in Emmett Till lynching, aide says
Mississippi’s top legal official has no plan to prosecute the White woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, an aide said Friday. The aide’s comments come after recent revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the …
Read More »David Pearce charged in deaths of model Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales
A Beverly Hills man has been charged with murder in the drug overdose deaths of two unconscious women who were dumped at hospitals in Southern California, prosecutors announced Tuesday. David Brian Pearce, 40, also was charged with two counts of selling, transporting or furnishing a controlled substance, the Los Angeles …
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A former North Texas police officer was indicted Thursday on a murder count in the fatal shooting of a suspect after a slow-speed vehicle chase. The Tarrant County grand jury indicted former Arlington police officer Robert Phillips in the Oct. 20 shooting of Jesse Fischer of Addison, Texas. Phillips, a …
Read More »3 arrested in 2017 quadruple slaying of Washington family
Three people have been arrested in connection with the quadruple murder five years ago of a prominent family that owned a restaurant in Bremerton, Washington, authorities said Monday. The Kitsap County Sheriff’s office said a 43-year-old man and a 49-year-old man, both from Bremerton, and a 50-year-old Gig Harbor man …
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