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…
The football team of Minor High School in Adamsville, Ala., had just beaten its opponent at an away game in Birmingham last week when Johnny Mims, the school’s band director, told his musicians to play three more tunes in celebration as the crowd prepared to file out of the stadium. After all, the Minor Tigers…
The police in South Carolina said on Thursday that they were investigating whether a court clerk improperly communicated with jurors who later convicted Alex Murdaugh for the murder of his wife and son in one of the most famous criminal trials in the state’s history. The investigation by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division was…
The Police Department in Worcester, Mass., could serve as Exhibit A in favor of body cameras for officers. Plagued by allegations that officers planted evidence, stole drug money and coerced sex in prostitution cases, the 450-officer department learned last November that it was facing a federal civil rights investigation like those launched in Minneapolis, Louisville,…
Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago announced on Sunday that he had chosen Larry Snelling, chief of the bureau of counterterrorism for the Chicago Police Department, as its new police superintendent, perhaps the most consequential appointment of Mr. Johnson’s new administration as the city continues to grapple with violent crime. “Chief Snelling is a proven leader…
A man driving an S.U.V. plowed into a group of six migrant workers outside a Walmart in Lincolnton, N.C., on Sunday in an “intentional assault,” the police said. The attack took place just after 1:15 p.m., when the man, who was behind the wheel of a midsize black S.U.V. with a luggage rack, steered toward…