A corrections officer from the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York has been arrested and charged with promoting dangerous prison contraband, destroying evidence and official misconduct, Andrew Brockway, an attorney for the man, told CNN on Wednesday.
The U.S. Justice Department likely will file federal hate crime charges against the suspect in the recent South Carolina church shooting, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The autopsy of the Baltimore black man who died after being hurt while in police custody shows he suffered a “high-energy injury” like those in shallow-water diving accidents, the Baltimore Sun reported on Tuesday.
A female prison worker’s agreement to drive a getaway car for two escaped inmates was “Plan B” and the convicted killers had another plot that allowed them to flee, Clinton County Sheriff David Favro said.
The seven-minute video, viewed 10 million times on YouTube as of Wednesday morning, shows officers responding to an incident, which police said started when scores of young people attended a party at a community pool and refused requests to leave.
The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed a man convicted of fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 2-year-old daughter almost 15 years ago, a prison spokesman said.
The capital murder trial of James Eagan Holmes has, for more than a week, been taking a jury inside the “broken” mind of a young man who really didn’t like other people. Prosecutors say Holmes should pay with his life for the killings of eight men, three women and a little girl at a Colorado movie theater nearly three years ago.
Baltimore’s top prosecutor plans to seek a protective order that would block the release of Freddie Gray’s autopsy report and other documents as she prosecutes police over his arrest, the Baltimore Sun reported on Thursday.
Investigators have determined that four members of an Alaska family, whose remains were discovered in March after being reported missing a year ago, died in a murder-suicide, police said on Wednesday.
A psychiatrist testified on Monday that Colorado theater gunman James Holmes chose a midnight screening of a movie to commit mass murder because he believed there would be fewer children present.
