Eight people, including six children, were found dead in a Michigan home after a fire, some with gunshot wounds, authorities said Friday. Police and firefighters responded shortly before noon to a house fire in Grand Haven Township, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. When they entered, they found the bodies, Capt. Jacob Sparks of
As officials review widely circulated bystander videos of the police shooting death of a homeless man in Madison, Wisconsin, one key insight will not emerge: footage from officers’ body cameras. Unlike almost every other city of similar size, Madison does not require police to use them. The absence of that footage has left residents in
MADISON, Wisconsin.- The police shooting death of a man who wounded an officer with a knife while resisting arrest has shaken the city of Madison, Wisconsin, with Gov. Tony Evers calling for “transparency and accountability” in any investigation and community members gathering at a growing memorial for the man. Protesters marched Wednesday after the shooting
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband will be sentenced in federal court on Thursday. Vance Boelter, 59, agreed to plead guilty in June, nearly a year after the Minneapolis-area attacks, when he stalked and killed House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and
CONCORD, N.H. — Lawyers for Pamela Smart, who is serving a life sentence for orchestrating the murder of her husband at the hands of her teenage student in 1990, urged a New Hampshire judge Monday to allow her latest request for a new trial to move forward. Smart, 58, was a 22-year-old high school media
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children while receiving medical treatment for psychiatric problems they developed after giving birth. Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old when