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Dale Smith Jr., ex-fiancé of Michelle Parker, missing since 2011, was held without bond after his Oct. 14 arrest on a second-degree murder charge; what is reported and what is unknown.
Judge Carli Kierny sentenced Duane Davis to 40 years to life on Oct. 13 in Las Vegas for the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur; his lawyer says he plans to appeal.
Jury selection began Oct. 13 in Buffalo in the federal death penalty trial of Payton Gendron over the 2022 Tops supermarket shooting that killed ten people.
Agents reportedly searched a home outlets identify as Rep. Ilhan Omar’s. The Justice Department cited a warrant and an ongoing investigation without naming her.
Officer Shane Seiber, 40, was killed and a second officer wounded in West Philadelphia; suspect Eric Lewis, 35, is charged, and no motive has been announced.
Erie police say eight people were killed and the suspected gunman, a 45-year-old man, died after a shooting on Perry Street; no motive has been announced.
NYPD’s Tisch says federal agents shot and wounded a man in Marble Hill on Oct. 8; DHS, as relayed, says an ICE officer fired. Federal agents lead the probe.
Federal prosecutors charged an 18-year-old Richfield man over an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to shoot people at the Mall of America after an undercover sale.
James Cody Bryant, 30, was arrested on a complaint charging conspiracy in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting; the charge is an allegation. Hearing Oct. 13.
Pentagon officials say former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, is to be executed by firing squad; no date has been reported.
As of about 12:50 a.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a shooting at a neighborhood block party in Vienna, Georgia, left two people dead and 35 injured. None of the sources it cites names a suspect or a motive.
Chicago police charged Shavon Gayden, 48, with first-degree murder in the Oct. 3 stabbing of a 7-year-old girl on the South Side; police have announced no motive.
Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike, 50, on Sept. 30 and she was still alive. The day’s sequence, the protocol and what is unknown as of Thursday, Oct. 1.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell released a report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic dioceses of Fall River, Springfield and Worcester. Her office says the investigation produced no new indictments, pointing to legal limits on prosecution and the deaths of many people identified.
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, shot by an ICE officer in North Austin on Sept. 20, is charged with assaulting a federal officer. Here is what each side says.
Douglas Carter, 71, was released on bail Monday, more than 41 years after his arrest in the 1985 killing of Eva Olesen in Provo, Utah, as a new trial looms.
Florida charged 20 people — 16 noncitizens and 4 felons on probation — with illegal voting, Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026.
Ardit Kutleshi pleaded guilty in Pittsburgh federal court over the Rydox cybercrime marketplace; its two other administrators have already been sentenced.
A Manhattan judge sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in state prison for a Criminal Sexual Act conviction involving Miriam Haley, following his June 2025 retrial. His earlier California sentence has been vacated and not yet replaced, leaving the New York term as his only current sentence.
A Vermont jury convicted Jason Eaton of three counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting three Palestinian college students in Burlington in 2023, rejecting his insanity defense. He faces up to life without parole, with sentencing still to be scheduled.