SEAN MURPHY and GREG MCCUNE, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) 10/31 — A fierce gun battle with Oklahoma troopers left a homicide suspect dead and ended a weeklong manhunt for the man suspected in a string of violent crimes across the state,
Month: October 2016
MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 10/31 — Police negotiators talking to the Orlando nightclub gunman at first weren’t sure if the person they had on the phone was actually in the Pulse nightclub,
LEEDEY, Okla. (AP) 10/31 — A massive, weeklong manhunt for a suspect in a string of violent crimes, including the killing of two relatives, the shooting of three law enforcement officers and multiple carjackings,
Del Quentin Wilber, Los Angeles Times, DES MOINES, IOWA 10/31 – It was a chilly spring day when an Iowa farmer spotted something odd in his freshly planted cornfield: a short,
Daniel Brown, Chicago Sun Times CHICAGO 10/30/2016
Twin 17-year-old brothers were killed in a drive-by shooting early Sunday in Old Town — among 17 people shot and killed in Chicago between Friday evening and Monday morning.
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) 10/31 — The trial is starting for a former South Carolina police officer captured on video shooting an unarmed black motorist.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) 10/31 — Conservationists in Zimbabwe are reporting the death of an old lion who was a companion of Cecil, the lion whose illegal killing by an American hunter last year prompted an international outcry.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) 10/31 — Police in North Carolina say a Pizza Hut employee used his own handgun to shoot and kill one of three armed robbers holding up the store.
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 10/31 — The FBI has obtained a warrant to begin reviewing newly discovered emails that may be relevant to the Hillary Clinton email server investigation,
LADYSMITH, Wis. (AP) 10/31 — Authorities have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy in western Wisconsin.
Rusk County Sheriff Jeff Wallace says the suspect surrendered Sunday morning as investigators searched for him in a residence in Conrath,
TED BRIDIS and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 10/30 — The Justice Department discouraged the FBI from alerting Congress to the unexpected discovery of emails potentially related to its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server,
BRYAN, Texas (AP) 10/27 — Police say a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student who rear-ended a squad car told an officer she was taking a topless selfie.
TALI ARBEL, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) 10/27 — New privacy rules may make it easier to escape at least some online tracking.
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved rules that require internet service providers like Comcast,
PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press PLAINVILLE, Conn. (AP) 10/30 — Democrats are finding it tricky to run against Dr. William Petit.
Petit, a 60-year-old Republican,
DAN SEWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) 10/30 — Memories remain vivid of the 2001 race riots in this city after police killed a young, unarmed black man.
KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Associated Press BERLIN (AP) 10/30 — Germany’s federal prosecutor is checking whether he should take over the investigation into a fatal stabbing in Hamburg earlier this month,
JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) 10/29 — In the desperate hours after a University of Toledo student disappeared while bicycling this summer, her friends scanned the state’s list of sex offenders and started knocking on doors.
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) 10/29 — David H. Brooks, the founder of America’s leading supplier of body armor to the U.S. military, died in prison while serving a 17-year sentence for running a massive stock fraud scheme.
BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) 10/29 — A Louisville police detective was among two pedestrians killed early Saturday after being struck by an alleged drunken driver while the officer was in Lexington,
JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) 10/29 — Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez had cocaine and alcohol in his system when his boat crashed into a Miami Beach jetty,