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Second man charged in connection with theft of ruby slippers worn in ‘The Wizard of Oz'
A second man has been charged in connection with the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz,” according to an indictment made public Sunday.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard apologizes for ‘lack of accountability' in her first month from prison release
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the child abuse victim who was convicted of killing her mother, apologized to people offended by her “lack of accountability” in her social media posts and media appearances during the first month she was released from prison.
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Former Arkansas State college football player accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend
Blaise A. Taylor, 27, was taken into custody in Utah and held in connection to the fatal poisoning of Jade Benning, who died in Nashville on her 25th birthday.
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James Crumbley, who bought gun used by son to kill 4 students, guilty of manslaughter in Michigan
The father of a Michigan school shooter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, a second conviction against the teen’s parents who were accused of failing to secure a gun at home and doing nothing to address acute signs of his mental turmoil.
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Marni Yang makes progress toward a new trial
A Lake County Judge said Thursday that Marni Yang can go forward with her claims that she did not kill Rhoni Reuter in 2007, NBC Chicago’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.
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Mississippi officer charged with forcing prisoner to lick urine off floor
A Mississippi police officer has been charged with forcing a person who was being booked in jail to lick urine off the floor of a holding cell, federal prosecutors alleged in court documents filed this month.
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Montana man pleads guilty to creating ‘giant' hybrid sheep with cloned animal parts
Court documents describe a yearslong conspiracy, beginning in 2013, in which Schubarth and at least five other people sought to create “giant sheep hybrids” by cross-breeding different species
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3 men charged with federal firearms counts after Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting
Federal prosecutors have charged three men from Missouri with federal counts related to the illegal purchase of high-powered rifles and guns with extended magazines after last month’s shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade and rally left one person dead and roughly two dozen others injured.
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Connecticut police identify 1974 cold case victim after DNA breakthrough
State police have solved a 50-year-old cold case and identified the remains of a woman found dead in a shallow grave in Ledyard, Connecticut, in 1974.
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Ghislaine Maxwell asks court to overturn sex trafficking conviction
Imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to toss out her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence.
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A US man is sentenced to life in prison for murder and rape in attack on 2 American women near castle in Germany
An American man was convicted of murder and other charges on Monday for brutally attacking two American women near Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them.
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2 Georgia men indicted on charges of setting off bomb at woman's home and plotting to release python to ‘eat' her daughter
Two Georgia men have been federally indicted in connection with a “sinister” plot they allegedly hatched last year to release a python to devour the daughter of one of their ex’s, prosecutors announced.
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Police: 5 people found dead in apparent murder-suicide in Hawaii
Authorities said the five deaths mark the state’s worst mass killings since 1999.
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Woman's feet amputated after boyfriend shoves her in front of NYC train: Police
A 29-year-old woman had both of her feet amputated on Saturday after she was pushed onto Manhattan subway tracks and struck by a train, according to police and MTA officials.
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Widow, 96, preparing to celebrate her birthday was killed in alleged murder-for-hire plot at her home
Violet Evelyn Alberts was preparing to bake cookies at her Montecito, California, home when she was killed in 2022. Four people have been arrested.
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Patrick Mahomes' brother sentenced to probation in assault case
Jackson Mahomes has been sentenced to six months’ probation after he pleaded guilty to battery in a case where prosecutors said he assaulted a woman.
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3 escaped inmates from Grenada charged with murder after sailing Virginia couple vanished
The men were accused of escaping from a police holding cell on Feb. 18 and hijacking a catamaran owned by Ralph Henry and Kathy Brandel while they were aboard.
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US Army soldier indicted and accused of selling sensitive military information
Sgt. Korbein Schultz, who had a top-secret security clearance, allegedly conspired with an individual identified only as “Conspirator A” to disclose various documents, photographs and other national defense materials since June 2022.
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4 indicted in beating death of Arizona teen outside Halloween party
Three teens and a 20-year-old have been indicted in the death of an Arizona 16-year-old who was found badly beaten outside of a Halloween party last year, the Maricopa County prosecutor said.
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CPD investigating shooting at West Side gas station that left 1 dead, 1 wounded
Chicago Police are investigating a double-shooting at a BP gas station in Garfield Park that shut down the store and left a man dead and a woman wounded, NBC Chicago’s Randy Gyllenhaal reports.