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US crime

August 2024

  • A Catholic church in New Orleans. Hecker’s lawyers say that at 92 he is not competent to stand trial.

    Catholic priest sexual abuse accuser hopes for conviction: ‘Where’s his suffering for it?’

    Greg Livaudais alleges abuse by Lawrence Hecker in 1974 – and wonders why the retired priest, 92, isn’t already in jail
  • police stand watch

    Jackson isn’t just Mississippi’s capital. It’s America’s murder capital

    Mississippi’s conservative government is waging a partisan war on its majority-Democratic capital city

    • Florida lawyer pleads guilty to Chinese embassy bombing attempt in DC

    • Louisiana mayor arrested on child rape accusations after abrupt resignation

    • Alabama jailer pleads guilty in death of prisoner who froze to death in cell

31 July 2024

  • Former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau

    US man who planned 2020 Venezuela coup attempt arrested for arms smuggling

  • a woman looks off to the side

    Former ballerina convicted in Florida over shooting death of husband

30 July 2024

  • a person arranges newspapers on a stand

    Son of El Chapo pleads not guilty in Chicago as mystery cloaks cartel arrests

  • A young man wearing a teal t-shirt smiles at the camera

    Four arrested in shooting death of Florida rapper Julio Foolio

27 July 2024

  • A bald Black man wearing a black suit and pink tie, in a room with two young Black people and a Black police officer, points to a poster on an easel, of, on the left, a Black woman, and on the right, an outline of a head.

    Illinois officer charged with killing Sonya Massey had history of ‘bullying’

    Sean P Grayson worked for six different law enforcement agencies in four years, with allegations of abuse of power and lying

26 July 2024

  • Woman cries as she holds placard with 'say her name' on front

    Kamala Harris calls Sonya Massey family to give ‘heartfelt condolences’

  • two police officers outside a court building

    Mexico president calls for ‘transparency’ amid secrecy over Sinaloa cartel arrests

25 July 2024

  • Former US President Trump attends hush money criminal trial<br>epa11380662 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks during a press conference held after former US President Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal trial in New York, New York, USA, 30 May 2024. Trump was facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

    Nevada man charged with death threats to prosecutor and judge in Trump trial

    Spencer Gear, 32, faces 22 counts of threats to kill, including Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Justice Juan Merchan

24 July 2024

  • An older Indian man with gray hair and a gray goatee, in a black blazer and white shirt with no tie, wearing glasses with the right eye black.

    Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect indicted on federal terrorism counts

  • A phone displaying the TikTok logo is shown resting on a keyboard

    Alabama church employee pleads guilty to stealing $300,000 to buy TikTok gifts

  • ‘I saw the door handle turn. Standing at the mouth of the corridor, I stared at the front door, narrowing my eyes in the dark.’

    For 18 months my stalker persisted. I moved, changed jobs but nothing worked – so I wrote a novel

    Ella Baxter
  • A woman in a suit and holding papers walks in a room

    Kamala Harris’s record as California prosecutor hurt her 2020 campaign. Will 2024 be different?

23 July 2024

  • a son talks about his mother

    Sonya Massey killing: family accuse police of attempted cover-up

    Audio obtained by the Guardian reveals police dispatcher was told Black woman’s fatal wound was ‘self-inflicted’
  • Trump yard signs

    Michigan man kills himself after running over 80-year-old Trump supporter

    The man called police to confess to a crime and then killed himself before authorities arrived at the scene
  • A man whispers into another man's ear.

    Judge vacates murder conviction of man who spent 30 years in Missouri prison

    Christopher Dunn, 52, is latest person released from a Missouri prison due to evidence of wrongful conviction
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