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Ransomware group LockBit is disrupted by a global police operation that includes 2 arrests 02/20/2024 02:51pm • LONDON (AP) — Law enforcement agencies have infiltrated and disrupted the prolific ransomware syndicate LockBit that has extracted $120 million from thousands of victims around the world, with two people arrested, British, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday. Britain's National Crime Agency, First federal trial for a hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans woman's killing 02/20/2024 01:53pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity began Tuesday in South Carolina, where a man faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that in August 2019, Daqua Lameek Ritter lu Long after tragic mysteries are solved, families of Native American victims are kept in the dark 02/19/2024 10:11am • It was the winter of 2021 when Philbert Shorty’s family found his abandoned car stuck in the mud outside the small community of Tsaile near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. “We knew something happened from the get-go," said his uncle, Ben Shorty. “We couldn’t find any answers.” Family me Pair of DC men sentenced to total of 32 years in prison for 2021 murder 02/18/2024 02:21pm • D.C. prosecutors and officers have announced sentences totaling more than 30 years for two District men for their part in the April 2021 murder of 29-year-old Kerry Odoms. Twenty-four-year-old Malachi McFarland and 27-year-old Andre Smith, both D.C. residents, were sentenced to 14 and 18 years in 2 juveniles charged in mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade 02/16/2024 07:06pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two juveniles were charged with crimes connected to the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl rally, authorities said Friday, as the city tries to recover in the aftermath of the violence. A news release from the Jackson County Family Court said the juvenile Ex-FBI official sentenced to over 2 years in prison for concealing payment from Albanian businessman 02/16/2024 05:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official was sentenced on Friday to more than two years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government — and trying to conceal their corrupt financial relationsh Pennsylvania high court takes up challenge to the state's life-without-parole sentences 02/16/2024 04:16pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's high court will consider whether some automatic life sentences for those convicted of murder violate constitutional protections for defendants, the justices said Friday. The appeal being pursued by Derek Lee, convicted of a 2014 killing, argues the state's lif Dispute may have led to the mass shooting after the Chiefs' Super Bowl parade, police say 02/15/2024 11:14pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mass shooting that unfolded amid throngs of people at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration, killing one person and wounding almost two dozen others, appeared to stem from a dispute between several people, authorities said Thursday. Police Chief Stacey Graves A Florida man was imprisoned 37 years for a murder he didn't commit. He's now getting $14M 02/15/2024 04:19pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Robert DuBoise spent 37 years in a Florida prison for a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit. Now, he's set to receive $14 million from the city of Tampa as compensation for all those lost years. DuBoise, who was 18 when the crime occurred, was initially sentenced to death for At least 8 children among 22 hit by gunfire at end of Chiefs' Super Bowl parade; 1 person killed 02/15/2024 12:12am • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eight children were among 22 people hit by gunfire in a shooting at the end of Wednesday's parade to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl win, authorities said, sending terrified fans running for cover as yet another high-profile public event was marred by gun viole Special counsel asks Supreme Court to let Trump's 2020 election case proceed to trial without delay 02/14/2024 06:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let former President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case proceed to trial without further delay. Prosecutors were responding to a Trump team request from earlier in the week asking for a continued Dozens of gang members in Boston charged with drug trafficking, COVID-19 fraud 02/14/2024 05:09pm • BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of gang members operating mostly out of a public housing development in a Boston neighborhood have been accused of dealing drugs, targeting their rivals in shootings and recruiting young people with the enticement of appearing in their songs and videos, federal authorities sai 12 Epstein accusers sue the FBI for allegedly failing to protect them 02/14/2024 05:00pm • ▶ Watch Video: Explaining the newly released Epstein documents Twelve accusers of Jeffrey Epstein, the sex offender and billionaire whose trafficking charges made international headlines, sued the FBI for failure to protect them, according to a complaint f Convicted New York killer freed on a technicality: Judge says he was held at the wrong prison 02/14/2024 04:01pm • ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man convicted for a 2015 killing in western New York has been freed and his indictment has been dismissed solely because he was held at the wrong prison according to an interstate law on detainees, a state judge has ruled. Terrence Lewis was released earlier this month fro At least 6 US states are considering tougher penalties for killing police dogs 02/14/2024 03:48pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Lawmakers in at least six states are considering longer prison sentences or bigger fines for harming or killing police dogs, and the idea has bipartisan support despite questions about how the animals are used and a fraught history. In Kansas on Wednesday, the Republican-contro