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ABC News (ATHENS, Ga.) — The suspect accused of murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia’s campus was found guilty by a judge on all charges Wednesday, including malice murder and felony murder. He [Read More…]

Libby March/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ROCHESTER, N.Y.) — Four University of Rochester students were arrested and another is under investigation for allegedly being involved with the antisemitic “Wanted” posters found on campus. The posters were discovered last [Read More…]

ABC News (BELLEVUE, Wash.) — Two people have been killed by falling trees in Washington state as a powerful storm hits the Pacific Northwest. In Bellevue, a tree fell into a home, hitting and killing [Read More…]

CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of his first orders of business will be to decide about the fate of TikTok in the United States — and [Read More…]

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration 1,402 acres it purchased along the Texas-Mexico border to be used in a mass deportation operation. [Read More…]

Sam Costanza/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man accused of killing three people in an apparent unprovoked stabbing spree in Manhattan made his first appearance in court on Tuesday. Ramon [Read More…]

KABC (LOS ANGELES, Calif.) — Police and relatives are pleading with the public to help find the driver who struck and killed a father of three in a hit-and-run in Los Angeles. Oscar Guardado was [Read More…]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (ATHENS, Ga.) — The last moments before Laken Riley was killed while out on a run on the University of Georgia’s campus were shown in court Tuesday on the third day of [Read More…]

RichLegg/Getty (PHOENIX, Ariz) — A deaf Black man with cerebral palsy who was violently arrested by two Phoenix police officers in August said he tried to alert the officers that he was deaf before they [Read More…]

Justin Lane – Pool/Getty Image (NEW YORK) — Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Tuesday they would oppose President-elect Trump’s attempt to dismiss his criminal hush money conviction in New York — but [Read More…]

Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images, Pool (SANTA ANA, Calif.) — Samuel Woodward, a California man found guilty of murdering his former classmate in 2018 in a hate crime, was sentenced to life in prison [Read More…]

Anita Kot/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — A week after cellphone users across the U.S. reported a flurry of racist text messages, members of the Hispanic and LGBTQ communities are now receiving text messages saying they [Read More…]

Courtesy of Fannin County Sheriff’s Office (FANNIN COUNTY, Ga.) — A mom in Georgia is speaking out about being arrested for reckless conduct after her then-10-year-old son was found walking alone. Brittany Patterson, 41, was [Read More…]

Bettmann Archive/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — The family of Malcolm X, the Black resistance leader who was assassinated in 1965, has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the U.S. government, they announced Friday. Ilyasah [Read More…]

ABC News (AUSTIN, Texas) — The execution of Robert Roberson — whose “shaken baby syndrome” murder conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter has come under scrutiny — can resume, according to a Texas Supreme Court [Read More…]

Burbank Police Department (BURBANK, Calif.) — A woman is facing felony charges after she allegedly was hired as a nurse at several California hospitals using “a variety of false identities” despite not having a nursing [Read More…]

Albuquerque Public Schools (ALBUQUERGUE, N.M.) — A school bus attendant for Albuquerque, New Mexico, Public Schools has been arrested after she was seen in surveillance video repeatedly hitting an autistic student. Debbie Chavira, 64, is [Read More…]

ABC News (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — At least 11 people were reported injured in an explosion at a manufacturing facility in Louisville, Kentucky, police said. A “hazardous materials incident” was reported Tuesday afternoon at the address [Read More…]

Charles O’Rear (BOSTON) — Jack Teixeira, the former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who prosecutors said “perpetrated one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history,” was sentenced to 15 [Read More…]

Yemassee Police Department (YEMASSEE, S.C.) — More than half of the rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered. As of Tuesday evening, 32 of the 43 furry runaways, that [Read More…]