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Texas militia member sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot 05/19/2023 05:36pm • A Texas militia member was sentenced Friday to nearly five years in prison for attacking police officers at the U.S. Capitol, seriously injuring one of them during a mob's attack on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss sentenced Donald Hazard to four years and nine months in prison follow Bolivian Catholic priest accused of abusing seminary students 05/19/2023 05:06pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Bolivian priest has been detained on suspicion of abusing seminary students a decade ago in a case that emerged after news broke earlier this month of a pedophilia scandal involving a late Jesuit priest in the Andean country. Milton Murillo, a Catholic parish priest at the UN envoy reportedly meeting Russian official accused of war crimes for deporting Ukrainian children 05/19/2023 03:28pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy charged with trying to protect children caught in conflicts is in Moscow, where she is reported to be meeting Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, who is charged with war crimes for deporting children from Ukraine. Human Rights Watch strongly criticize Missouri governor picks ex-federal prosecutor to replace Kim Gardner as St. Louis circuit attorney 05/19/2023 03:12pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday named Gabe Gore, a former assistant U.S. attorney, as the new chief prosecutor in St. Louis, three days after Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's sudden departure. Gore is a partner in the St. Louis law firm Dowd Bennett, served on the Fer Jordan Neely, NYC subway rider choked to death, is mourned at Manhattan church 05/19/2023 03:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — In the polarizing wake of Jordan Neely’s chokehold death at the hands of a fellow New York City subway rider, there has been a “distortion of values,” Rev. Al Sharpton said Friday in eulogizing the former subway performer at his funeral. Neely, who had been struggling with me 2 teens facing charges in Prince George's Co. school bus attack appear in court 05/19/2023 02:36pm • Prince George's County State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy spoke at a press conference Friday about the attack on the school bus. (WTOP/John Domen) It was jarring video captured by cameras mounted on a Prince George's County school bus: three boys wearing masks climbed onboard and attacked an 8th gr Slovak court acquits businessman in retrial over 2018 murder of journalist 05/19/2023 11:29am • PRAGUE (AP) — A court in Slovakia has acquitted for a second time a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slaying of an investigative journalist and his fiancée. The Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok, near the capital, Bratislava, which handles Slovakia’s most serious cases, ruled Former DC government staffer pleads guilty to stealing over $350K from city 05/19/2023 09:27am • A former District employee has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud after stealing more than $350,000 from a D.C. program she once benefited from. Authorities said 52-year-old Rhayda Barnes Thomas, of D.C., embezzled funds while working with the D.C. Department of Employment Services' Projec Alaska court reconsiders 135-year sentence given to youngest girl ever convicted of murder in Alaska 05/18/2023 07:59pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lower court will reconsider the 135-year sentence given to a then-14-year-old girl four decades ago for her role in the shooting deaths of three people in Anchorage. When Winona Fletcher was sentenced in 1986, she became the youngest female ever convicted of murder in Al Remains of Georgia woman identified, confirmed as serial killer's 1977 victim 05/18/2023 01:37pm • MACON, Ga. (AP) — The remains of a Georgia woman killed 46 years ago were identified and confirmed as a victim of Samuel Little, known as the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, authorities said Thursday. Yvonne Pless was about 20 when Little killed her in 1977, according to a news relea Indiana Army veteran convicted in road rage killing of Muslim man 05/18/2023 12:29pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Indianapolis Army veteran has been convicted in the road rage shooting death of a Muslim man, after witnesses said he hurled ethnic and religious insults at the victim, including yelling, “Go back to your country,” before opening fire. A Marion County jury convic Mother of DC man killed in police chase is charged for courtroom outburst 05/18/2023 06:13am • Karen Hylton's son, Karon Hylton-Brown, was killed in a 2020 police chase. At the D.C. police officer's trial five months ago, the mother disrupted the proceedings, and now she's facing charges. A criminal complaint accuses Hylton of charging toward a courtroom security officer, aggressively ches Singapore hangs 2nd citizen in 3 weeks for trafficking cannabis despite calls to halt executions 05/18/2023 05:43am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore on Wednesday hanged another citizen for trafficking cannabis, the second in three weeks, as it clung firmly to the death penalty despite growing calls for the city-state to halt drug-related executions. The 37-year-old man was executed after his last-ditch b UK-based group documents rights abuses since Taliban takeover of Afghanistan with 'witness map' 05/18/2023 01:26am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.K.-based rights group on Thursday launched an interactive map documenting rampant human rights abuses and violence against civilians since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan nearly two years ago. The documented violations — committed by both the Taliban and militant gr Death row inmate challenges new Tennessee post-conviction law 05/18/2023 01:02am • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate is challenging the newly expanded authority of the appointed state attorney general to argue certain capital cases, a power that lawmakers shifted away from locally elected prosecutors under a new law after some expressed reluctance to pursue the