Courts, cops, killers and the cases the country is watching.
A man was shot in the chest and killed at the 53rd Street–Seventh Avenue subway station in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday, and police say the gunman fled on foot. Police say the attack was not random, but no arrest had been made as of Saturday afternoon.
A Bend, Oregon, father heard gunshots while driving home for lunch, followed a teenage gunman into the elementary school where his daughters are students and fatally shot him, according to his family and police accounts relayed by several outlets.
San Francisco police say a months-long investigation called Operation D-Line has produced four arrests in the February shooting of 49ers defensive lineman Keion White. So far only two of the men have been charged.
Two anonymous women have filed a federal civil suit accusing former Rep. Matt Gaetz and two Florida associates of a sex-trafficking scheme. Gaetz says much of the conduct alleged is false and that he looks forward to deposing his accusers.
Savannah police found a newborn alive in a trash can near a hotel on a Saturday morning in October, according to local reports relayed by national outlets. Three adults have been charged, but key details remain unreported.
Federal prosecutors say an OpenAI engineer plugged a concealed audio recorder into a TV in a San Francisco executive conference room. He was arrested Oct. 9 and faces up to five years if convicted.
Sean "Diddy" Combs was reportedly taken out of a federal prison in New Jersey before dawn Saturday with a head injury. The Bureau of Prisons has said nothing, and nobody has confirmed where he went.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the December 3 firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be public, and a Pentagon official says it will be livestreamed. Stars and Stripes reports it would be the first U.S. military execution in 65 years.
Roughly three minutes of Newport News police body-camera video from the January 2023 Richneck Elementary shooting has been unsealed, showing the 6-year-old who shot his teacher cursing at officers moments after the gun was found on the classroom floor.
Newly released Tempe police video of a July arrest on Mill Avenue shows an officer shoving an Arizona State student to the ground and striking her. Prosecutors passed on felonies; the city filed misdemeanors anyway, and her attorney calls it a cover-up.
