By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A judge sentenced an 18-year-old who acknowledged killing five people in a North Carolina mass shooting to life in prison without parole Friday, rejecting arguments that he deserved the chance for release decades from ...

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Connecticut judge on Friday dismissed criminal charges against three current and former New Haven police officers who were accused of mistreating prisoner Richard "Randy" Cox after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van in 2022. Judge David Zagaja ...

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of killing four relatives in what prosecutors said was a murder and arson plot spawned by a soured business relationship between the man and his younger brother. Paul Caneiro, 59, was found guilty on four counts of ...

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges Friday, following a protest at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official is a pastor. Four ...

By TERRI LANGFORD and AIDAN JOHNSTONE/The Texas Tribune Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday announced he's taking up the case of a Houston doctor disciplined by the state's medical board last year for trying to treat a patient with ivermectin at a hospital where she did not have ...

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal safety agency investigating an August blast at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh that left two workers dead said it found a series of incomplete, outdated or inadequate procedures and practices that "exposed" employees to the ...