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Illinois man, 80, set for release in 1960 triple-killing

February 16, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — An 80-year-old man is set to be released from an Illinois prison this week, nearly six decades after he was sentenced to life for the killing of one of three suburban Chicago women whose brutalized bodies were found in a state park.Chester...

Stop and frisk gets renewed attention in Bloomberg candidacy

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JENNIFER PELTZ | February 16, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — David Ourlicht was a college student, walking down a street near campus, when he became one of millions of New Yorkers swept up in the era of stop and frisk.A police officer accosted Ourlicht, deeming suspicious a bulge in his jacket....

Biden in Vegas takes on Sanders’ gun votes in fiery speech

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and STEVE PEOPLES | February 16, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Joe Biden, standing on a Las Vegas stage roughly 1,000 feet from the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, took on White House rival Bernie Sanders for his past vote to exempt gun manufacturers from liability...

The Latest: Sanders claims Bloomberg will not excite voters

February 16, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local):10:40 p.m.Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders laced into billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a Democratic Party dinner in Las Vegas while Bloomberg was campaigning...

California death row inmate dies; prisoner killed in attack

February 15, 2020

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — A death row inmate died Saturday at a hospital, while the previous day another prisoner was killed after two inmates attacked him, California officials said.John Abel — who was sentenced to death row for killing a man in...

Ex-Wisconsin receiver surrenders, charged in double-homicide

February 15, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — A former University of Wisconsin football player who is the brother of a standout in the 2011 Super Bowl surrendered to Chicago police on Saturday in connection with the deaths of two people who were found with gunshot wounds on a road...

7 minors hurt in Chicago shootings, including 3 accidents

February 15, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — Four separate shootings on Chicago's West and South sides wounded at least seven children, including three cases that appear accidental, police said Saturday.Three of the minors were wounded in a shooting at an apartment complex Friday...

14-year-old charged with Barnard College student death

By JULIE WALKER and MICHAEL HILL | February 15, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — A 14-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Barnard College student in a park during a robbery in December, a crime that rattled New York City residents, authorities said Saturday.Rashaun Weaver has been indicted by a...

Political corruption trial of big N Carolina donor to start

By GARY D. ROBERTSON | February 15, 2020

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An insurance company magnate and two associates go on trial this week on charges they conspired to bribe an elected North Carolina regulator with up to $2 million in campaign money so scrutiny of his businesses would ease.U.S. District...

Trump doesn’t heed Barr’s request to cool tweeting on DOJ

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG, and ZEKE MILLER | February 15, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unbowed by a public rebuke from his attorney general, President Donald Trump says he has the "legal right" to intervene in criminal cases and sidestep the Justice Department's historic independence. At the same time, it was revealed...

‘Perfume cloud’ helps German police sniff out drunk driver

February 15, 2020

BERLIN (AP) — He just didn't smell right.German police say they nabbed a drunk driver who tried to flee a traffic stop after finding him hiding behind a hedge “in a cloud of perfume.”Police in the southwestern town of Speyer said Saturday that officers...

1 dead, 4 injured in shooting outside Berlin music venue

February 15, 2020

BERLIN (AP) — One person has been killed and 4 others were injured in a shooting late Friday outside a Berlin event venue, German authorities said Saturday.A spokeswoman for Berlin prosecutors said one or more people opened fire outside the Tempodrom,...