There was a method to the robberies: One crew member, usually a woman, would knock on the door. Then others, donning bandannas and brandishing firearms, would storm the home when someone answered and corral its occupants.
When a Missouri deputy said she fatally shot a man in 2017 because he was reaching for her Taser, the sheriff’s department awarded her a medal of valor. But after the deputy used the same defense for shooting a woman in the back in August, the county prosecutor pressed charges last week and promised to look into the 2017 shooting again.
A California man was convicted on Tuesday of cyberstalking and threatening to kidnap relatives of those killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, federal prosecutors said.
The last time the United States bought a foreign territory — through a monetary transaction and not just a signed treaty — was in 1917, when the Virgin Islands were acquired from Denmark.
The chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party called Monday for the resignation of state Rep. Candice Keller, a fellow Republican who one day earlier said mass shootings were the result of such factors as “homosexual marriage,” “drag queen advocates” and “recreational marijuana.”
The chief executive of an Ohio health care system announced his resignation and the termination of 23 employees Thursday, one month after a doctor who worked for the hospital was charged in one of the largest murder cases in the state’s history.
On June 5, Dr. William Husel, who served patients at hospitals in and around Columbus, was charged with killing 25 people over a four-year period by prescribing fatal doses of fentanyl.
When James Barron went into his smokehouse in southern Alabama to grab an ax, he was alarmed to see a giant wasp nest about 7 feet wide extending along the wall. It had been two months since he had last stepped foot inside.
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