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A Philadelphia police officer died Saturday after he and his partner were ambushed and shot multiple times while responding to a report of an armed man in the western part of the city.Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel identified the officer who died as Shane Seiber, a 40-year-old father who spent 10 years on the force.He leaves behind his wife and his two children, a 7-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter."He fought […]

After sitting cold for more than 40 years, a Rhode Island murder case may have been solved with the recovery of a discarded water bottle in a theater.On Oct. 6, William "Billy" Morton was arrested and charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing Hillary Hellewell in Newport in 1985.After four decades, investigators used new DNA technology that allegedly links 61-year-old Morton to the crime.DNA BREAKTHROUGH LEADS TO ARREST IN GRISLY […]

A key campus police interview that local prosecutors say they never received in full before initially declining to bring charges in the Cornell University alleged rape case could face fresh scrutiny as former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates reviews the Ivy League school's handling of the allegations.Yates, who served as deputy attorney general in the Obama administration, has been tapped by Cornell's trustees to conduct a sweeping independent review of […]

Nearly four months after the body of a missing South Carolina fitness enthusiast was found, authorities have determined that 39-year-old Elena Katherine Moore died of natural causes stemming from a heart condition, ending months of speculation surrounding her disappearance.Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher announced Friday that Moore died from complications of cardiac dysrhythmia with premature ventricular contractions, a condition involving an abnormal heart rhythm.Fisher said the autopsy found no evidence […]

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the deportation of an illegal immigrant who was shot Thursday during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in New York City.In a two-page order, U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken, an Obama appointee, ruled that the man — whom police identified as Oscar Belgal but who was named in a court document as Oscar Bergal — cannot be removed from the United States without […]

A fugitive wanted for nearly 14 years in the alleged kidnapping and shooting of an Iowa woman was arrested in San Diego after authorities said he reinvented himself as a popular chef under a fake name, even appearing in local news segments while hiding from law enforcement.Brian Anthony Williams, 50, was arrested Tuesday at Miss B's Coconut Club in Mission Beach, California, where he had been working under the name […]

The attorney for one of the former Cornell University Chi Phi fraternity members named in an explosive sex abuse lawsuit is raising questions about the appointment of New York Attorney General Letitia James as an independent prosecutor days after he says the state's top cop publicly took sides in the case before seeing the evidence."My issue is not political, and it is not personal," attorney Andrew Miltenberg told Fox News. […]

Convicted University of Idaho student murderer Bryan Kohberger is trying to remove the judge who called him a "faceless coward" and said he could find nothing "good or intrinsically human" about him at sentencing — but prosecutors say those remarks don't prove bias as the former criminology student fights to undo his guilty plea.Judge Steven Hippler said Kohberger, 31, "slithered" into the victims' home before committing a crime that made […]

A Maryland man charged with killing a 12-year-old girl while allegedly firing at two men near a youth football game was released from prison just eight days before the deadly shooting.Tyree Reynolds, 23, was released from state custody on Sept. 25, according to Fox 45 News, which cited the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (MDPSCS).Reynolds faces 30 criminal counts, including murder and attempted murder, in connection with […]