Jason Marz/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — The man accused of shooting two Jewish men in Los Angeles last year has agreed to plead guilty to hate crime and firearm charges, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.Jamie Tran is expected to plead guilty as charged to two counts of hate crimes with intent to kill and two counts…… read more »
Former US President Donald Trump looks on during his criminal trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York City, on May 13, 2024. (STEVEN HIRSCH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related…… read more »
ilbusca/Getty Images(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — The Albuquerque Police Department was put on notice nine years ago by the United States Department of Justice. A federal court ordered a third-party monitor to watch and report back on how the then-troubled department operated. Police leadership and officers were told by the court they had to make changes to…… read more »
Rocky Mountain National Park/Facebook(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — A search is underway for a 23-year-old hiker in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park after he did not return from an attempt to summit Longs Peak on Sunday.Lucas Macaj, of Colorado Springs, was expected back late Sunday. He was last heard from around 1 p.m. on Sunday when…… read more »
Kali9/Getty Images(PORT ALLEN, La.) — Multiple people are dead, including a woman who was nine months pregnant, after severe storms swept through the South, officials said.Three people were killed in Louisiana — including the pregnant woman and her unborn child — due to severe weather on Monday, officials said.The pregnant woman was killed when a…… read more »
Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Several conservative-led states are rallying against new federal Title IX regulations announced by the Biden administration that codify protections for transgender people in schools.The new federal rules officially add “gender identity” to the list of protections from sex-based discrimination for the first time. Title IX prohibits discrimination based…… read more »
Department of Justice(BALTIMORE, M.D.)– A Maryland woman accused of plotting to carry out attacks on multiple energy substations surrounding Baltimore pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal conspiracy and firearms charges, court records show.Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Catonsville, was charged last year with conspiring with a Florida-based founder of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen to carry out…… read more »
Luis Sánchez Saturno-Pool/Getty Images(SANTA FE, N.M.) — Hannah Gutierrez has appealed her conviction of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin film “Rust.”Gutierrez, the film’s armorer, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, the maximum, in connection with the October 2021 shooting.The Santa Fe, New…… read more »
Marion County Sheriff’s Office(ORLANDO, Fl.) — Eight people were killed when a bus carrying about 53 farmworkers crashed and overturned on West Highway 40 in central Florida, according to state officials.About 40 victims have been taken to medical facilities, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said.The 2010 International Bus and a 2001…… read more »
Marion County Sheriff’s Office(ORLANDO, Fl.) — Eight people were killed when a bus carrying about 53 farmworkers crashed and overturned on West Highway 40 in central Florida, according to state officials.About 40 victims have been taken to medical facilities, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said.The 2010 International Bus and a 2001…… read more »
