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Indigenous missing person cases get researchers' attention 05/08/2023 05:11pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico task force charged with addressing missing person cases involving Native Americans is teaming up with researchers in Nebraska on a data collection project that they hope will begin to close the gaps when it comes to tracking cases and their outcomes nationwide Oath Keepers' Rhodes seeks leniency in Jan. 6 sentence 05/08/2023 04:52pm • Lawyers for Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, say he doesn’t deserve any more time behind bars when he’s sentenced this month, according to court papers filed Monday. While the Justice Department is seeking 25 years i Forensic genealogy leads to arrest in 2007 Kansas rape case 05/08/2023 01:36pm • WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Kansas have arrested and charged a man in a 2007 sexual assault by matching a DNA sample to data submitted to genealogy websites. Ted Foy, 52, of Augusta, is jailed on $500,000 bond after he was charged last week with rape, aggravated sexual battery and aggravated cr 'Outraged' letter carriers demand action to stop robberies 05/08/2023 01:23pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Postal carriers have more worries than snow, rain or the gloom of night keeping them from their appointed rounds. They're increasingly being robbed, often at gunpoint, from Maine to California. Robberies of postal carriers have exploded, surging 78% to nearly 500 in 2022, a UN urges Afghanistan's Taliban to end floggings, executions 05/08/2023 01:43am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.N. report on Monday strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power in Afghanistan, and called on the country's rulers to halt such practices. In the past six months alone, 274 men, 58 women and two boys were public Jan. 6 prosecutors seek 25 years for Oath Keepers’ Rhodes 05/06/2023 12:31am • The Justice Department is seeking 25 years in prison for Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors described as a violent plot to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House, prosecutors said in court papers filed Friday. A Washington, D.C., Proud Boys 1/6 verdict boosts Justice Dept. in Trump probe 05/05/2023 08:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio wasn't even in Washington when members of his extremist group, angry over Donald Trump 's election loss, stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Yet federal prosecutors, using his words, won a conviction on the most serious charge levied in the Veteran jurist picked to weigh moving Trump’s criminal trial 05/05/2023 07:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A judge known for his care and cautiousness in presiding over litigation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks was selected Friday to decide whether Donald Trump ’s criminal case proceeds in state or federal court. Alvin Hellerstein, a Manhattan federal judge for a quarter century Opinions vary on qualities for next St. Louis prosecutor 05/05/2023 06:16pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — Now that Kim Gardner is stepping down as the chief prosecutor in St. Louis, Missouri's governor is getting plenty of advice about the qualifications Gardner's replacement should bring to the table. Activists and Democrats want someone who will continue her progressive policies, ev Kansas loses legal fight over voting law passed in 2021 05/05/2023 02:17pm • MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has lost a legal fight over one of the voting laws that its Republican-led Legislature passed in the wake of the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil ruled Thursday that it was unconstitutional to make it a crime for groups to include voter’s name, addre Some call NYC subway choking criminal, others hold judgment 05/04/2023 09:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The choking death of a man at the hands of another New York subway rider was setting off powerful reactions Thursday, with some calling it a criminal, racist act even as authorities reserved judgment on the killing. New York has become one of the nation's safest large cities, but t Embattled 1st Black St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner resigns 05/04/2023 07:14pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the city's first Black prosecutor and a Democrat, announced Thursday that she will resign, following allegations of negligence and calls for her ouster by Republican leaders. In a letter to Republican Gov. Mike Parson released by G How Oklahoma rapist got out of prison early, then killed 6 05/04/2023 07:13pm • Questions mounted Thursday about why an Oklahoma sex offender who authorities say shot to death his wife, her three children and their two friends and then killed himself was freed from prison early, despite facing new sex charges in a separate case. Those questions include how he was released on go Tyre Nichols died of blows to the head, autopsy shows 05/04/2023 06:03pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols died of blows to the head suffered when he was beaten by Memphis police during a January arrest, an autopsy report released Thursday showed. The autopsy said the manner of death was homicide. The report released by the medical examiner in Memphis described brain Zelenskyy wants Putin trial; Russia accuses US on drones 05/04/2023 05:05pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine and Russia pressed their wartime rhetoric Thursday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressing confidence that Vladimir Putin would be convicted of war crimes, and the Kremlin alleging that the U.S. was behind what it called an assassination attem