NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The photograph didn’t provide much detail: just a snapshot of Mr Rene Compean’s feet dangling over a bed of rocks during a hiking trip. It was enough, however, for a stranger to help pinpoint his possible location and help authorities rescue the hiker after he was reported missing this week near […]
Body camera footage showed that a Chicago officer fired a single shot into the boy’s chest after chasing him down a dark alley. By Neil Vigdor Source: Read Full Article
INDIANAPOLIS (REUTERS) – Multiple victims have been reported after shots were fired at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on Thursday (April 15), an incident which the police is calling a “mass casualty”, an ABC-affiliated television station said. Marion County Sheriff’s office confirmed the shooting at the FedEx facility. However, the office did not give more […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Workers in India are fleeing large cities as the country logs 200,000 daily infections. Puerto Rico is reporting a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations amid a lagging vaccine rollout. France reported […]
By Marie Fazio Before Judge Peter A. Cahill sent jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial home on Thursday, he gave them short and vague instructions on what they might need to pack for deliberations next week. “If I were you, I would plan for long and hope for short,” he said. “Basically, it’s up to […]
A Florida man who posed as an immigration lawyer, filing hundreds of fraudulent asylum applications and collecting more than $411,000 from unwitting clients, has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison, federal prosecutors said. The man, Elvis Harold Reyes, 56, of Brandon, Fla., pleaded guilty in December to charges of mail fraud and […]
More than a century ago, gold miners settled in an area in Northern California known as Hangtown, where adventurers sought fortunes by panning for gold and vigilante justice dispensed to criminals gave the town its morbid renown. This week the past caught up with the present in the town, now known as Placerville, when the […]
With a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin set to come as early as next week, the city of Minneapolis is already preparing for protests and civil unrest. The plan, which includes nine state and local agencies, called Operation Safety Net, is one of the biggest in the state’s history, likely only trailing the […]
Former police officer Derek Chauvin has refused to testify in court over the killing of George Floyd as the defence rested its case and the murder trial was adjourned. At the start of Thursday’s proceedings Chauvin informed the court that he would not testify, invoking his 5th Amendment right not to take the stand. “Is […]
Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago issued an emotional appeal for calm on Thursday as officials prepared to release video of a police officer fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy. “We must proceed with deep empathy and calm and importantly, peace,” Ms. Lightfoot said, her voice breaking as she talked about the pain of losing a child […]