News of the Day From Across the Nation
1 Murder charges: A Chicago man has been charged with first-degree murder after police say he helped lure a 9-year-old boy into an alley with a juice box and then shot him in the head because of his father’s gang ties.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Boone-Doty has been held since his November arrest on unrelated gun charges.
Authorities say police were justified in killing an armed Arizona rancher who helped lead a standoff at an Oregon national wildlife refuge earlier this yea in Burns.
Oregon State Police opened fire during a traffic stop Jan. 26 that also led to the arrests of the occupation’s leaders.
In an aerial footage video, Finicum is pulled over in his truck but then takes off and plows into a snowbank.
Federal prosecutors say they won’t bring criminal charges in the case of an unarmed black teenager shot to death in his home by a white New York City police officer.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Tuesday that there is “insufficient evidence to meet the high burden of proof” for any federal civil rights charges in the 2012 death of Ramarley Graham.
Officer Richard Haste said he fired because he thought he was going to be shot, but no weapons were found in the apartment.
Texas execution: A 58-year-old Texas prisoner is facing execution this week for a Houston-area shooting rampage that left five people dead more than 18 years ago.
Coy Wesbrook’s lethal injection Wednesday evening would be the fourth this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state.
Saifullah Paracha, a 68-year-old former businessman from Pakistan who also lived in the United States for more than a decade, appeared by video-teleconference link from the base before the Periodic Review Board, a panel of government officials in Washington that conducts parole-like hearings to determine if Guantanamo prisoners should be eligible for release.
The U.S. had at one time planned to try him by military commission, and a profile released by the Pentagon before his review board hearing said he had provided financial and other assistance to al Qaeda, working with some of the group’s most senior figures.