Kathlynn Shepard BOONE, Iowa — Authorities planned to conduct an autopsy Saturday on a body found in a river that is believed to be that of a 15-year-old girl who was abducted more than two weeks ago. Investigators are confident that the body a fisherman found Friday night in the Des Moines River near Boone [...]
Mookie Blaylock #10 of the Atlanta Hawks dribbles against the Sacramento Kings on March 31, 1994. JONESBORO, Ga. — Authorities say former NBA All-Star Daron “Mookie” Blaylock has been charged with vehicular homicide in a head-on crash in suburban Atlanta. Jonesboro Police Chief Franklin Allen says the 46-year-old Blaylock is also charged with driving on [...]
LOS ANGELES — An AEG Live LLC executive denied Monday that he pushed Michael Jackson to rehearse for his ill-fated comeback concerts, refuting earlier testimony by the singer’s longtime makeup artist and stylist. Paul Gongaware said he never told Jackson’s assistant to get the singer out of a locked bathroom and to a rehearsal, an [...]
HARTFORD, Conn. — A state Freedom of Information commission on Monday ordered Newtown officials to provide it with 911 calls from the day of the shooting inside Sandy Hook Elementary School as it considers an appeal for their release by The Associated Press. A hearing officer, Kathleen Ross, directed the town to provide the copies [...]
MINEOLA, N.Y. — As a family prepared for the funeral of a Hofstra University junior killed by a police officer’s bullet during a standoff with an armed intruder, some on Monday questioned whether officers should have confronted the gunman or waited for help, including a hostage negotiating team. The dead woman’s godfather criticized the police [...]
By Bryan Graham NEW YORK CITY — Three men were indicted on drug trafficking charges after police seized nearly 20 pounds of heroin and crystal meth worth more than $2 million, prosecutors announced Monday. The New York State Police nabbed the men in red-handed with a hefty 6.6 pound bag of heroin at the intersection [...]
NEW YORK — A New York Police Department detective told a federal judge that he’s seen no evidence that one of his informants brought up the subject of jihad as a way to bait Muslims into making incriminating remarks. But text messages obtained by The Associated Press show otherwise. And while the detective, Stephen Hoban, [...]
HARLEYVILLE, S.C. — An 80-year-old South Carolina double-amputee has died from his injuries after he was dragged from his wheelchair and attacked by four dogs, authorities said Tuesday. Carlton Freeman of Harleyville was driving his motorized wheelchair on May 8 when he was attacked, said Maj. John Garrison, a spokesman for the Dorchester County Sheriff’s [...]
PHILADELPHIA — A mother of six whose infant son starved to death at a homeless shelter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday. Tanya Williams had shown no emotion when paramedics found her emaciated, lifeless son alone on a bed, wearing only a diaper, two days before Christmas 2010, according to testimony. Quasir Alexander was [...]
Rick Heltebrake, the man who called police informing them that fugitive Christopher Dorner had hijacked his car, talks to the media with his dog Suni about the ordeal in Angelus Oaks, California, February 13, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images) The man who has been most vocal about his claim to the Christopher Dorner reward has been [...]