GREENWOOD, Miss. — Since its opening in a converted wood-frame mansion 117 years ago, Greenwood Leflore Hospital had become a medical hub for this part of Mississippi’s fertile but impoverished Delta, with 208 beds, an intensive-care unit, a string of walk-in clinics and a modern brick-and-glass building. But on a recent weekday, it counted just…
A 23-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with a brazen sidewalk killing of a man in St. Louis on Monday, the police said, an episode that a witness captured on video that was widely shared on social media. The suspect, Deshawn Thomas, was arrested as he tried to enter a nearby…
On the evening of Aug. 6, 1975, Laurel Jean Mitchell left the Epworth Forest church camp in North Webster, Ind., where she worked at the snack bar, to meet friends at a nearby amusement park. She never made it. Ms. Mitchell’s body would be found the following day in a nearby river. Alongside her was…
DENVER — The five police officers and paramedics accused of killing Elijah McClain, a young Black man who had been walking home when he was stopped by the police in Aurora, Colo., were formally arraigned in a Colorado district court on Friday, more than three years after his death. The indicted defendants all entered pleas…
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…
The only person charged in the 2020 killing of Vanessa Guillen, a soldier at Fort Hood in Texas, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four counts including accessory to murder after the fact. Cecily Aguilar, 24, faces a maximum possible penalty of 30 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $1 million fine,…
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…
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…
The city of Idaho Falls, Idaho, has agreed to pay $11.7 million to a man who spent 20 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering an 18-year-old woman in 1996, according to a settlement agreement approved by the City Council this week. The man, Christopher Tapp, was cleared in 2019 of the…