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Police: Six slain, 27 wounded by gunfire over a violent weekend in Chicago 07/24/2023 12:26pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago has experienced another bloody and violent weekend as six people were fatally shot and 27 others were wounded by gunfire. Officers responded to two dozen separate shooting incidents from 6 p.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, according to major incident notification Former police chief in Montenegro arrested on suspicion of smuggling and abuse of position 07/24/2023 06:42am • PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro's former police chief was arrested on Monday on suspicion of running a criminal enterprise, abuse of position and smuggling, authorities said. Veselin Veljovic served two terms as the director of police administration between 2007 and 2020. He was a close as Prince George's Co. man found guilty of 2021 double homicide 07/22/2023 08:33pm • A man from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was found guilty Friday of murdering two young men in Northwest D.C. in July 2021, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Jalen Browne, 22, walked around the 100 block of Q Street NW in disguise, laying in wait to shoot at six young men in the parking lot of Charges dismissed against white woman who spat on Black woman during protests in Connecticut 07/22/2023 12:09pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A judge Friday dismissed hate crime and other charges against a white woman who spat on a Black woman during competing protests at the Connecticut state Capitol, then was allowed to resolve the case through probation. The victim called the outcome “being spit on once agai A man lies in a Kenya morgue. His family says he's one of at least 35 shot dead by police this month 07/22/2023 04:38am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At the morgue, the bullet was still lodged in Douglas Kalasinga’s head. His family said they couldn’t afford an autopsy. At least 35 civilians have been shot dead by police in Kenya this month during protests over new taxes and the rising cost of living, and Kalasinga’s Today in History: July 22, Senate rejects court-packing plan 07/22/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2023. There are 162 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 22, 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. On this date: In 1862, Pres Racist text scandal at Northern California police department at center of court hearing 07/21/2023 10:34pm • MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) — A court hearing to determine whether Northern California police officers who traded racist text messages violated a state law aimed at eliminating racism in the criminal justice system adjourned Friday without any officers taking the stand to answer questions about the scan New report points to homicide rate declines in US cities after pandemic-era spike 07/21/2023 07:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Homicides are declining in a cross-section of American cities, though their numbers remain higher than before the coronavirus pandemic took hold, according to a new report analyzing data from 30 U.S. cities. Homicides on average dropped 9.4% during the first half of 2023 as comp Judge finds forensic scientist Henry Lee liable for fabricating evidence in a murder case 07/21/2023 07:11pm • Famed forensic scientist Henry Lee was found liable for fabricating evidence in a murder case that sent two Connecticut men to prison for decades for a crime they did not commit, a federal judge ruled Friday. Ralph “Ricky” Birch and Shawn Henning were convicted in the Dec. 1, 1985, slaying of Ev Tennessee now requires court order or proof of pardon to restore felon voting rights 07/21/2023 06:56pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has begun requiring felons who want their voting rights back to first get their full citizenship rights restored by a judge or show they were pardoned. Election officials say the step is required after a June court ruling. But attorneys representing the state's d DeSantis downplays Jan. 6, says it wasn't an insurrection but a 'protest' that 'ended up devolving' 07/21/2023 04:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday downplayed the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, saying it was not an insurrection but rather a “protest” that “ended up devolving, you know, in a way that was unfortunate, of course.” DeSantis, speaking in an interview on Minneapolis police reforms leader hired following George Floyd's murder retiring after a year 07/21/2023 03:12pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The law enforcement veteran appointed to oversee reforms at the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd's killing plans to retire in September after enduring sharp criticism in his first year on the job. Community Safety Commissioner Cedric Alexander announced Why does Sweden allow Quran burnings? Like much of West, it has no blasphemy laws 07/20/2023 10:42pm • STOCKHOLM (AP) — A recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists in Sweden has sparked an angry reaction in Muslim countries and raised questions – including in Sweden – about why such acts are allowed. In the latest such incident, an Iraqi living in Sw Prince George's Co. man who shot and killed popular Md. boxer sentenced to 80 years in prison 07/20/2023 10:23pm • The man who shot and killed a popular Maryland boxer in front of his family on Christmas Eve in 2021 was sentenced to 80 years behind bars Thursday afternoon. Markell Lewis, 25, of Clinton, Maryland, admitted to police that he shot Danny Kelly Jr., in what prosecutors said was a road rage inciden Police say DNA technology has identified the killer in the unsolved death of a woman in 1981 07/20/2023 05:15pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — More than four decades after a young New Hampshire woman was killed, law enforcement officials have solved the crime through DNA analysis and the use of forensic genealogy technology, the state attorney general said Thursday. But solving the case doesn’t bring with it the s