A small contingent of Berkeley residents and activists has pushed aggressively to preserve the entire park, which was the center of bloody counterculture protests in the 1960s. In late February last year, a state appeals court in San Francisco sided with the development plan’s opponents, who claimed that the university had failed to conduct environmental…
A few days before Christmas, a jury in Washington cleared three Tacoma police officers of criminal charges in the death of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man who died in police custody in 2020 after pleading that he could not breathe. The next day, on Dec. 22, a jury in Colorado convicted two paramedics…
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…
A house in Arlington, Va., exploded into flames on Monday night after a man fired several rounds from a flare gun inside as the police prepared to execute a search warrant there, the authorities said. The explosion took place after 8 p.m. in the 800 block of N. Burlington Street, the Arlington County Police Department…
Jairo Lerma and several of his relatives placed a wooden cross in the dry grass along a Texas highway where his parents, on their way from Georgia to Mexico, died suddenly in a fiery crash with an oncoming car that was carrying migrants and fleeing a sheriff’s deputy. Shortly before the crash on Nov. 8,…
A second Colorado police officer has been acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young, unarmed Black man whose case attracted national attention and became central to debates about police brutality and race. A jury on Monday found Nathan Woodyard, who was the first officer to stop Mr. McClain as he walked home…
The Army Reserve and a Maine sheriff’s department were aware of a reservist’s deteriorating mental health more than five months before he killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, according to records released on Monday. Just six weeks ago, the records show, he had grown increasingly paranoid, punched a friend and said he was going to…
Dressed in the dark attire and mask that would become his signature, Mr. Rogers walked directly to the casino’s cashier cage. He then demanded money, all while keeping his hand in his pocket, prosecutors said, to make the cashier believe that he was concealing a weapon. She handed over around $73,810, most of it bundled…
A man who targeted a 6-year-old boy and his mother for being Muslims brutally attacked them with a military-style knife, killing the boy and wounding the mother at a residence outside Chicago on Saturday, the authorities said. The boy, who was stabbed 26 times with a serrated knife with a seven-inch blade, was pronounced dead…
A Philadelphia police officer was fatally shot and another injured on their way to work Thursday night when they confronted people breaking into a vehicle in a parking garage at Philadelphia International Airport, the authorities said. Another person brought to a hospital separately and who died there might have been involved in the shooting, but…