YouTube shooter’s bizarre videos key to suspected motive
Violent Crime
“Youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!”
April 3, 2018
UPDATE: Woman opens fire at YouTube, 4 wounded and shooter DEAD
SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — A woman opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area Tuesday, wounding four people before she shot and killed herself and prompting panic as employees hid and tried to flee, police and witnesses said. Officers and federal agents swarmed the company’s headquarters complex in the city of …
National
April 2, 2018
New police beating video clearly shows chokehold, aftermath
By JEFFREY COLLINS and JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A white North Carolina officer is shown putting a black pedestrian in a chokehold in video released Monday that offers more footage of a police beating that has sparked outrage over use of force. City officials in Asheville, North Carolina, released nine body camera …
National
April 2, 2018
OUTRAGE: ‘Affluenza’ teen who killed four released from jail
A psychologist at his manslaughter trial blamed his irresponsibility on family wealth, dubbing it “affluenza.”
School Crimes
March 31, 2018
Ted Nugent: Parkland teens attacking the NRA have ‘no soul’, are “mushy brained children”
By The Associated Press Rocker Ted Nugent says the Florida students calling for gun control have “no soul” and are “mushy brained children.” The 69-year-old made the comments Friday while defending the National Rifle Association as a guest on the Joe Pags show, a nationally syndicated conservative radio program. Nugent, a longtime member of the …
Scams
March 30, 2018
Catholic priest spent $45,000 on indoor pool for lavish estate: Lawsuit
He’s accused of embezzling more than $5 million from his church
Trials
March 30, 2018
Widow of gunman who killed 49 people at a gay Orlando nightclub is acquitted on all charges in 2016 attack
The widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay Orlando nightclub has been acquitted on charges of lying to the FBI and helping her husband in the 2016 attack.
Trials
March 29, 2018
‘Serial’ subject Adnan Syed will get a new trial
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling granting a new trial to a man whose conviction in the murder of his high school sweetheart became the subject of the popular podcast “Serial.” Adnan Syed was convicted in 2000 of killing Hae Min Lee and burying her body in a …
College Crimes
March 28, 2018
Judge tosses involuntary manslaughter charges in frat death of Timothy Piazza
A judge has thrown out involuntary manslaughter and some of the other most serious remaining charges against 11 of the former Penn State fraternity members arrested in a pledge’s hazing-related death last year. It’s the second major blow to the prosecution’s case. District Judge Allen Sinclair on Wednesday threw out nearly 300 new or refiled …
Famous Murder Cases
March 28, 2018
Prosecutors: Nightclub shooter intended to attack Disney
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Orlando nightclub shooter intended to attack Disney World’s shopping and entertainment complex by hiding a gun in a stroller but became spooked by police and instead chose the gay club as his target, prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors revealed the details during their closing arguments in the trial of Noor Salman, …
School Crimes
March 26, 2018
Sheriff: Shooter at Maryland high school killed himself
New details released by the sheriff’s office show how Rollins died.
Celebrity Justice
March 26, 2018
Experts: Prince toxicology report shows shocking high drug level
Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator
