Violent crime
Supreme Court won’t review decision that freed Bill Cosby
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Supreme Court quietly announced Monday that it would not review Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, leaving him a free man and ending a two-decade legal drama that shifted the cultural landscape, destroyed the groundbreaking Black actor’s reputation, and sent him to prison for several years late in life. The high court, …
Jury foreman: Ahmaud Arbery killers showed ‘so much hatred’
The Black man who served as foreman of the jury that returned hate crime convictions against the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery says he believes the verdicts show no one is above the law ByThe Associated Press March 1, 2022, 7:27 PM • 4 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article …
Husband charged in slaying of Iowa health care administrator
The husband of an Iowa health care administrator stabbed his wife to death in April, hours before she was set to learn about financial problems he had tried to hide from her, police alleged in court documents filed Tuesday. Roy Browning Jr. of Iowa City was arrested Monday night on a charge of first-degree murder …
Young Ohio mother acquitted of killing newborn
A young Ohio mother who prosecutors said killed and buried her unwanted newborn in her backyard just days after her senior prom so that she could keep her “perfect life” was acquitted of murder Thursday. Brooke Skylar Richardson, now 20, began shaking and sobbing while a judge read the not guilty verdicts on aggravated murder, …
Detectives: 1994 technology slowed search for serial killer
By Brendan Farrington | AP August 21 at 2:46 PM TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It wasn’t hard for Daytona Beach police to figure out who killed John Hardy Roberts in March 1994: Gary Ray Bowles left a probation document at the scene and also was caught on an ATM camera trying to withdraw money from Roberts’ account. He …
