PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A former mob enforcer in Rhode Island with ties to late New England crime boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca has died in a federal prison in North Carolina. Gerard T. Ouimette was 75. The Federal Bureau of Prison’s website reported that Ouimette, who had lived in Fall River, …
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MITCHELL, S.D. – Police officers who responded to what they thought was a robbery of a South Dakota bank found a school tour instead. Sgt. Dave Beintema told The Daily Republic newspaper (http://bit.ly/1bdNypJ ) that students were being given a tour of the First Dakota National Bank in Mitchell on …
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BISMARCK, N.D. – A federal jury in North Dakota will soon be deciding the fate of a man accused in a Jamaican lottery scam that authorities say cost victims around the country millions of dollars. Attorneys are giving closing arguments in U.S. District Court in Bismarck in the case of …
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A jury on Friday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death. Last month, the same jury found Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 federal counts against him. Here are the charges: — Conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death. — Use of a weapon of mass …
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PORT HURON, Mich. – Authorities will not release the results of an autopsy of a malnourished, dehydrated and physically abused 5-year-old Michigan girl while the investigation into her death continues. The Times Herald of Port Huron reports Thursday that the autopsy report has been completed, but that Public Safety Chief …
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Tulsa police have arrested a disgruntled Walmart worker in Oklahoma who they say threatened to shoot another store employee before responding officers found her sitting in a car outside with a loaded handgun, according to authorities. The suspect, identified as Adrienne Edwards, allegedly made the threats after supervisors disciplined her …
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Two men who served decades in prison for separate murders in New York City were exonerated on Monday after reinvestigations found that they had been convicted based on unreliable witness testimony. Jabar Walker, 49, walked free after he was cleared of a 1995 double murder. He had been serving 25 …
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Washington, D.C., police have recorded 250 homicides so far this year — the highest number of murders that the nation’s capital has seen in two decades — with a month left until the year’s end. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) recorded 248 homicides in 2003, after which homicides began to …
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Wyoming’s Secretary of State Chuck Gray is working to rectify a Colorado judge’s ruling that labeled former President Trump an “insurrectionist” in an election case the Wyoming Republican argued should have been dismissed from the start. “As chief election officials of our states, [Secretaries of State] have to stand up …
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The Vermont Sheriff’s Association on Monday called for Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore to immediately resign after the Vermont Criminal Justice Council voted last week that he permanently lose his ability to enforce the law for violating the state’s use of force policy by kicking a shackled prisoner. The sheriff’s …
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