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Guilty verdict in Boston bombing trial
Man arrested for making ‘disturbing’ phone calls to Sandy Hook school
South Carolina police officer charged with murder is fired
South Carolina officer dismissed after shooting man in back
Tsarnaev convicted in Boston bombing, may face death sentence
Family of mentally ill Florida man releases videos of police shooting
Islamic State group releases over 200 captive Iraqi Yazidis
Live updates: Guilty verdict in Boston Marathon bombing trial
U.S., Afghan soldiers killed in firefight between Afghan, NATO forces
'Gunned down like an animal': Walter Scott's family reacts to video of his killing
Iran sends navy vessels to waters off Yemen, raising stakes
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wins 2nd term in runoff victory

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 11:12 AM PDT

A jury finds Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts for his role in the 2013 attacks.

Man arrested for making ‘disturbing’ phone calls to Sandy Hook school

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 02:50 PM PDT

A Connecticut man was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly placing harassing phone calls to Sandy Hook Elementary School, accusing staffers of staging the 2012 school shootings.

South Carolina police officer charged with murder is fired

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 04:17 PM PDT

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a black man running from a white police officer inflamed the nation's debate over police use of force Wednesday, and the mayor and police chief of South Carolina's third-largest city said they were "sickened" by what a bystander's video revealed.

South Carolina officer dismissed after shooting man in back

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 04:03 PM PDT

By Harriet McLeod NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A white South Carolina police officer has been fired after being charged with murder for shooting a black man in the back as he fled, but questions remained on Wednesday about some details of the killing that was filmed by a witness. The shooting occurred on Saturday in North Charleston, a town of about 100,000 people, nearly half of whom are black, but it gained national media attention on Tuesday when the video became public. The shooting was the latest in a series of deaths during police encounters in the United States that have led protesters to decry racism and police brutality. North Charleston Police Chief Eddie Driggers said at a news conference that he did not know whether officers performed CPR on the victim, 50-year-old Walter Scott, who ran away after being stopped by police for a broken brake light on his vehicle.

Tsarnaev convicted in Boston bombing, may face death sentence

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 04:32 PM PDT

By Scott Malone, Elizabeth Barber and Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on Wednesday of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured 264 others, and the jury will now decide whether to sentence him to death. Tsarnaev, 21, is the surviving member of pair of ethnic Chechen brothers who planted the homemade pressure-cooker bombs that tore through the crowd at the famed race's finish line in one of the most shocking attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. His lawyers opened Tsarnaev's federal trial in Boston a month ago by bluntly admitting "it was him" who planted one of the bombs on April 15, 2013 and three days later shot dead a police officer, kicking off a day of chaos in Boston. The courtroom was packed with survivors of the attack including the parents of 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest fatality, and law enforcement officials, including former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.

Family of mentally ill Florida man releases videos of police shooting

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 04:40 PM PDT

By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - New videos showing a mentally ill Florida man being shot dead by police call into question a Miami area department's explanation of the shooting, said attorneys for the victim's family who released the footage on Wednesday. Footage captured from within a police car at the scene show shell cases flying as a police officer shot 25-year-old Lavall Hall on Feb. 15. Two of the bullets hit Hall, Miami Gardens police told reporters in the days after the incident, explaining that Hall had attacked officers with a broom stick. A spokesman for the Miami Gardens Police Department was not immediately available to comment.

Islamic State group releases over 200 captive Iraqi Yazidis

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 12:19 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group released more than 200 Yazidis on Wednesday after holding them for eight months, the latest mass release of captives by the extremists targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes and an Iraqi ground offensive.

Live updates: Guilty verdict in Boston Marathon bombing trial

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A jury finds Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts in the 2013 attack.

U.S., Afghan soldiers killed in firefight between Afghan, NATO forces

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 02:22 PM PDT

By Rafiq Sherzad JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An American and an Afghan soldier were killed on Wednesday when a firefight broke out between Afghan and NATO coalition forces at a compound where a senior U.S. diplomat met a provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan, police and U.S. sources said. Soldiers from both sides were wounded in the shooting, which erupted shortly after the diplomat left the compound aboard a helicopter, according to U.S. and Afghan sources. "I can confirm that one American soldier was killed today," Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters.

'Gunned down like an animal': Walter Scott's family reacts to video of his killing

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:20 AM PDT

Family members speak out after a white S.C. police officer is charged with murder.

Iran sends navy vessels to waters off Yemen, raising stakes

Posted: 08 Apr 2015 02:52 PM PDT

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Iran dispatched a destroyer and another naval ship to waters off Yemen on Wednesday, raising the stakes amid a Saudi-led air campaign targeting Iranian-backed Shiite rebels fighting forces loyal to the country's embattled president.