Even as a House select committee prepared on Monday to recommend criminal charges in connection with a series of attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the Justice Department has not relented in its own investigation of the culmination of those efforts: the mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The inquiry into the…
Colonel Davis said on Thursday that the case had already spurred “fundamental improvements to our operations, training and administration” inside the state police. The case reached the grand jury in November, brought by John Belton, the district attorney for Union Parish. Mr. Belton had said that federal prosecutors did not object to him moving forward…
A search for a missing 7-year-old Texas girl ended with the discovery days later of her body and a FedEx contract driver being charged in her kidnapping and killing, the authorities said on Friday. The search for the girl, Athena Strand, began on Wednesday in Paradise, Texas, about 40 miles northwest of Fort Worth. Nearly…
A 53-year-old man has been charged with reckless homicide after the authorities said he plowed his S.U.V. through the front window of an Apple store in a suburb of Boston on Monday, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others. The man, Bradley Rein, will be arraigned in Hingham District Court and faces…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A 22-year-old student at the University of Virginia was charged with fatally shooting three members of the university’s football team and wounding two others as they returned from a class field trip on Sunday night, an attack that led to an overnight campuswide lockdown while the authorities searched for the gunman for…
Federal prosecutors filed charges on Monday against the man the police said broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and struck her husband with a hammer.
ALBUQUERQUE — The Afghan man accused of killing two Muslim men in Albuquerque had twice been arrested on domestic violence charges and had been interviewed by the police after several more altercations, including a fight with a man his daughter had dated, according to police records released on Wednesday. Prosecutors eventually dismissed both of the…
Alex Murdaugh, the fourth-generation lawyer whose family has long held power and influence in a rural swath of South Carolina, was charged on Thursday with killing his wife and one of his sons at the family’s secluded hunting estate in a mysterious murder that remained unsolved for more than a year. Mr. Murdaugh, 54, was…