CHICAGO — A Chicago woman accused of luring a pregnant teenager to her home and cutting her baby from her womb with a butcher knife nearly five years ago pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Clarisa Figueroa, 51, seated in a wheelchair and wearing a bright yellow jumpsuit, did not provide a statement but answered “Yes” when Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas asked her if she understood she would need to serve the entire sentence and would not receive early...
MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- An Odessa man was sentenced in federal court in Midland to 20 years in prison for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl, which resulted in the death of a local minor. According to court documents, on October 2, 2023, officers with the Odessa Police Department and medical personnel responded to []
A 7-year-old girl was killed and seven others, including two children, were injured in a mass shooting on Saturday evening in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, authorities said.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least eight people were shot, including at least three
LIVERPOOL, N.Y.- Multiple police officers were shot in Liverpool, a
The 15-year-old boy who was shot by an Akron police officer who thought a toy gun he was carrying was real, is now being charged.
LOS ANGELES — The California Attorney General declined to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles police officer who fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store in 2021, killing a 14-year-old girl in a dressing room, authorities said Wednesday. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. fired three times when police responded to a Burlington clothing store in the San Fernando Valley where 24-year-old Daniel Elena Lopez had brutally attacked two women on Dec. 23, 2021. Valentina Orellana Peralta...
BATON ROUGE — A Texas man convicted of robbing a mail carrier at gunpoint in 2021 was sentenced to 7½ years in prison Tuesday.Tarek Sonnier, 26, pleaded guilty to robbing the mail carrier and spraying her with mace on Oct. 6, 2021. The USPS worker was delivering mail near the intersection of North 8th Street and North Street in Spanish Town when Sonnier approached her with a letter.The mail carrier asked if he was looking to mail the letter and Sonnier said "yes," before holding...
A pro-abortion activist was sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison last week for firebombing a Wisconsin pro-life organization in 2022.
A Chicago man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for illegally selling guns and "switch" devices that can turn semi-automatic firearms into machine guns.
Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager who survived a gunshot to the head after ringing the wrong doorbell back in April 2023, is still grappling with the profound impact of the traumatic event on his life.
MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer talks to the Minnesota Reformer’s Deena Winter, who took a deep dive into that data