Four public officials have been charged for their suspected roles in the jailbreak of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the country’s federal courts system said on Monday, bringing the total number of officials charged in his escape to seven.
Rescue teams in Colorado were working to recover the bodies of at least four people who died in a small plane crash in a rugged area of the Rocky Mountains, federal and local officials said on Monday.
Akeel Asady, the usually cheerful part-owner of Iraqi Kabob restaurant, lifted a kitchen towel draped over his left shoulder to wipe tears that formed seconds after he spoke of the 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned last week during his refugee family’s desperate attempt to make it to Greece.
A Mexican official said Monday that he believes a photo posted online by the son of Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquín Archivaldo Guzman Loera, aka “El Chapo,” does in fact include the wanted fugitive. But that doesn’t mean it shows where “El Chapo” is or reveals when the picture was taken.
Hundreds of mourners gathered in Illinois on Monday for the funeral of police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, who was shot last week while pursuing three suspects who are still on the loose.
A top lawyer in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration was shot early Monday morning and rushed to the hospital in critical condition, Cuomo confirmed in a statement.
Authorities in Chicago say they don’t know yet whether child body parts found in the city’s Garfield Park are from the same body.
A grand jury has indicted Portsmouth, Virginia, police Officer Stephen Rankin on a first-degree murder charge related to the shooting of an unarmed teen in a Walmart parking lot, according to public Virginia court records.
Lawyers for jailed Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis said on Monday they had asked an appellate court to force Governor Steve Beshear to allow her to refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses based on her religious convictions.
An 11-month-old boy died in Georgia over the weekend when his grandparents forgot him in the car for two hours, police said.
A trash-strewn field along the Hungarian-Serbian border served as the latest flashpoint in Europe’s migrant crisis Monday as people grew weary of waiting for days in primitive conditions to resume their journey to safety.
