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DC, Md. teens charged in connection to 2 murders, drive-by shooting 02/04/2024 10:45am • D.C. police and the District's U.S. Attorney have announced charges for three teenagers who are allegedly connected to two murders and a drive-by shooting over the past two years. The 26-count federal indictment charged Derrico Johnson, 19, and Daveon Robinson, 17, both of D.C., and Ronald Hender Many cities have anti-crime laws. The DOJ says one in Minnesota harmed people with mental illness 02/04/2024 01:11am • The Minneapolis suburb of Anoka sits where Minnesota’s meandering 150-mile (241-kilometer) Rum River ambles into the mighty Mississippi. Like other communities, it touts itself as an agreeably placid place to live. But last year, a federal investigation found Anoka illegally discriminated against 3 operators of high-end brothels, including Virginia, indicted in Boston 02/03/2024 10:47pm • Three people arrested and charged in November 2023 in connection to brothels operating in Boston and Northern Virginia have been indicted by a federal grand jury. Han “Hana” Lee, 41, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; James Lee, 68, of Torrance, California; and Junmyung Lee, 30, of Dedham, Massachu Rights groups denounce acquittal of former Serbian security officers accused of killing a journalist 02/03/2024 06:47am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Media rights groups and opposition campaigners on Saturday condemned a Serbian appeals court ruling that acquitted four former intelligence officers who were jailed for the killing of a prominent journalist and newspaper publisher who was fiercely critical of the government 3 sentenced in murder cases that exposed DC crime lab errors 02/03/2024 04:03am • Three people were sentenced in D.C. court Friday in connection to murder cases that exposed errors at the District's crime lab. Joseph Brown, 34, and Rondell McLeod, 30, both of D.C., were sentenced for their roles in the shooting death of 21-year-old Amari Jenkins in 2015. Brown was sentenced Washington Co. sheriff's office sued again in bizarre catfish, murder, kidnapping case involving one of its deputies 02/02/2024 10:43pm • A lawsuit for $50 million is being filed against the Washington County, Virginia, Sheriff's Office as part of the continuing fallout from a bizarre and horrific 2022 case involving a triple murder, kidnapping, abduction, suicide and arson. The lawsuit was filed through the Virginia law firm Breit Armed group fires on UN helicopter in eastern Congo, injuring 2 peacekeepers, one seriously 02/02/2024 10:33pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Members of an armed group fired on a U.N. helicopter in eastern Congo early Friday, injuring two South African peacekeepers, one seriously, the United Nations said. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. peacekeeping department assumes the attack was carried out by me A Vermont mom called police to talk to her son about stealing. He ended up handcuffed and sedated 02/02/2024 05:36pm • A Vermont mother wanted to teach her then-14-year-old son a lesson after he came home with electronic cigarettes he stole from a gas station. So she called the police. What happened next that evening in May 2021 is the basis for a lawsuit by the mother alleging that Burlington police used excessive Federal judge in DC postpones Trump's March trial on charges of plotting to overturn 2020 election 02/02/2024 05:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington formally postponed Donald Trump's March trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election as a key legal appeal from the former president remains unresolved in the courts. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday vacated the March 4 trial US moves to seize more than 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil it says was illegally trafficked 02/02/2024 03:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced Friday that it was seizing more than 500,000 barrels of internationally sanctioned Iranian fuel that officials said was illegally trafficked to provide funding for the country's paramilitary force. In addition, prosecutors announced criminal charg These are their stories: Sam Waterston to leave 'Law & Order' later this month after 400 episodes 02/02/2024 02:55pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Waterston, who has played the spiky, no-nonsense district attorney on “Law & Order” since the mid-1990s, is stepping down from his legal perch. The last episode for Waterston's Jack McCoy will be Feb. 22, NBC said Friday. He has been in more than 400 episodes of the pol Trial date set for white supremacist who targeted Black shoppers at a Buffalo supermarket 02/02/2024 02:17pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The federal death penalty trial for a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket likely won't start for at least 18 months to give lawyers time to tackle a host of legal and logistical issues, a judge said Friday. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo 16-year-old killers of transgender teenager in England sentenced for 'sadistic' murder 02/02/2024 01:18pm • LONDON (AP) — The two 16-year-old convicted murderers of a transgender teenager in northwest England nearly a year ago were handed life sentences Friday with minimum prison terms of 20 and 22 years. Justice Amanda Yip lifted the reporting restrictions on naming the killers of 16-year-old Brianna G Citing media coverage, man charged with killing rapper Young Dolph seeks non-Memphis jury 02/02/2024 01:17pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man charged with killing Young Dolph cannot get a fair trial in Memphis due to the intense media attention and “public visceral outrage” over the slaying of the beloved rapper in his hometown, a defense lawyer said Friday. Justin Johnson's attorney asked a judge to brin Meet the newscaster in drag making LGBTQ+ history in Mexican television 02/02/2024 01:09pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guillermo Barraza buzzes with a nervous energy as he watches himself transform. Hands delicately paint stripes of bright pink eyeshadow onto Barraza’s angular face as newscasters and makeup crews bustle around him. Tonight, in a small studio set in the heart of Mexico City, Ba