He traveled around the country, visiting small Black churches, where he presented himself as a pastor or a bishop. But prosecutors said they had found no evidence that Orlando Coleman, 51, of Houston, was a member of the clergy and they contend he used the claim to win the trust of churchgoing women — at…
After the 2020 election, one story out of North Carolina had a powerful effect on Donald J. Trump. A proactive Republican, the story went, had worked behind the scenes to stop Democrats from stealing the election in the state and helped secure Mr. Trump’s victory there. That Republican was Michael Whatley, the chairman of the…
The idea came to Pete Melfi, a radio personality turned podcaster in St. Augustine, Fla., last year after he organized “the laziest race in the history of races,” a .5-kilometer beer run, and the participants had a grand old time. Wouldn’t it be fun, Mr. Melfi thought, to hold another race, this time with a…
An Ohio man who prosecutors said had tried to burn down a church in anger by throwing Molotov cocktails at it last year because it planned to host two drag shows was sentenced on Monday to 18 years in prison, federal authorities said. The man, Aimenn D. Penny, 20, of Alliance, Ohio, who was arrested…
A judge who was attacked by a defendant in a Las Vegas courtroom last week sentenced the man on Monday to 19 to 48 months in prison on a previous battery charge, emphasizing that his actions last week did not affect her sentencing decision. The man, Deobra Redden, 30, drew national attention on Wednesday when…
A man with developmental disabilities who spent more than 16 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder has reached a settlement of $11,725,000 with the city of Elkhart, Ind., his lawyers said on Friday. The man, Andrew Royer, said that when he first learned of the settlement he “went numb.” “I’m a brand-new…
A homeless man who beat a former San Francisco city official with a metal pipe was found not guilty of assault charges on Friday, capping a case that had drawn national attention as a symbol of the city’s crime and homelessness problems until a public defender unearthed a surprising back story. The defendant, Garret Allen…
Prosecutors charged a Detroit police officer with manslaughter on Tuesday, accusing him of fatally punching a 71-year-old man during a confrontation. The officer, Juwan Marquise-Alexander Brown, 29, has since been fired by the Detroit Police Department. On Sept 1., Mr. Brown was sent to investigate a complaint of disorderly conduct against Daryl Vance, a Detroit…
Though Rick Ahearn was just a few feet from John Hinckley Jr. when he opened fire on Ronald Reagan and his entourage outside the Washington Hilton on March 30, 1981, he was most likely among the last people in the city to know that the president had been shot. That’s because as soon as Secret…
The man who shot and killed three faculty members on Wednesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was himself a professor who had tried and failed to get several jobs at colleges in the state, the authorities said on Thursday. The gunman, Anthony Polito, 67, was living in a Las Vegas suburb and was…