A massive manhunt entered a second day on Sunday in Minnesota for the suspected gunman who killed a Democratic state lawmaker while posing as a police officer — a crime that Governor Tim Walz characterized as a “politically motivated assassination.” The suspect, whom police have identified as Vance Luther Boelter, 57, fled on foot when officers confronted … Read more
A massive manhunt entered a second day on Sunday in Minnesota for the suspected gunman who killed a Democratic state lawmaker while posing as a police officer — a crime that Governor Tim Walz characterized as a “politically motivated assassination.” The suspect, whom police have identified as Vance Luther Boelter, 57, fled on foot when officers confronted … Read more
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. He was executed for shooting a friend and then cleaning out his bank account in … Read more
An Afghan man in Oklahoma accused of planning an Election Day attack in the U.S. on behalf of the Islamic State group pleaded guilty Friday to terrorism-related charges in federal court. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, pleaded guilty to two offenses: conspiring and providing support to the Islamic State group, and attempting to receive firearms to … Read more
The British man who was the sole survivor of Thursday’s Air India plane crash said he managed to escape the wreckage through an opening in the fuselage. “I managed to unbuckle myself, used my leg to push through that opening, and crawled out,” Vishwashkumar Ramesh told Indian state media DD News. Mr Ramesh, 40, was … Read more
An alleged ISIS supporter who came to Ontario on a study permit has pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in New York, amid allegations he planned a shooting rampage at a Jewish centre in Brooklyn. Public records show Muhammad Shahzeb Khan was arraigned in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, after being extradited to the … Read more
A man who posed as a flight attendant on four different airlines scammed 120 free flights over the course of years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced Tuesday. Tiron Alexander, 35, was convicted on June 5 of entering a secure area of an airport under false pretenses and wire fraud. … Read more
A Texas man was arrested and accused of spiking a romantic partner’s drink with abortion-inducing medication and allegedly ending her pregnancy without consent, officials said Wednesday. Justin Anthony Banta, 38, was booked into custody on Friday last week on suspicion of tampering with evidence and capital murder before he posted at $500,000 bond and was … Read more
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — A bison gored a man Tuesday after a large group of visitors got too close to the animal in Yellowstone National Park, officials said. The 30-year-old from Randolph, New Jersey, was treated for minor injuries after being gored around 9:45 a.m. in the Old Faithful area, according to a park … Read more
Police in India say a woman who went missing after her husband was murdered during their honeymoon is in custody after turning herself in. According to the BBC, relatives of the couple believed the wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi, 25, was dead or had been abducted and launched a large-scale campaign to locate her after she and … Read more