Indiana man agrees to plead guilty to killing teenage girl who worked for him
The man accused of strangling and killing a 17-year-old central Indiana girl has agreed to plead guilty to murder, court documents state.
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Trump stays on Illinois’ ballot as the election board says it lacks power to remove him over Jan. 6
Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him from the presidency.
Indiana legislation would add extra verification steps to prove voters are eligible
Republican lawmakers in Indiana want first-time voters to prove they live in the state and additional verification of all voters’ addresses.
Indiana lawmakers vote to let some state officials carry handguns on Capitol grounds
Some Indiana officials, including the attorney general and the secretary of state, could carry handguns in the state Capitol under a bill approved Monday by state lawmakers, who already can do so inside the complex.
Supreme Court is urged to rule Trump ineligible to be president again because of Jan. 6 riot
The U.S. Supreme Court should declare that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president again, lawyers leading the fight to keep him off the ballot told the justices on Friday.
Florida attorneys who criticized discrimination ruling should be suspended, judge says
A judge recommended 30-day suspensions for a father-daughter pair of lawyers in Florida who spoke out after another judge overturned a jury’s $2.7 million ruling in favor of a Black doctor in a racial discrimination case.
Alex Murdaugh denied new double-murder trial after judge hears jury tampering allegations
A South Carolina judge on Monday denied Alex Murdaugh’s bid for a new trial after his defense team accused a clerk of court of tampering with a jury.
Biden is marking the 15th anniversary of landmark pay equity law with steps to help federal workers
The Biden administration is marking Monday’s 15th anniversary of a landmark federal pay equity law with new action to help close gaps in pay for federal employees and employees of federal contractors.
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
Intricate, invisible webs link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market.
There’s a wave of new bills to define antisemitism. In these 3 states, they could become law
Lawmakers in more than a half-dozen U.S. states are pushing laws to define antisemitism, triggering debates about free speech and bringing complicated world politics into statehouses.
Death penalty charges dismissed against man accused of killing Indianapolis officer
A judge on Thursday granted the state’s motion to dismiss death penalty charges against a man charged with fatally shooting an Indianapolis police officer in 2020 because doctors have found him to be mentally ill.
Alabama executes man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used
Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again placed the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment.
State seeks to dismiss death penalty for man accused of killing Indianapolis cop
Prosecutors sought Wednesday to dismiss death penalty charges against a man charged with fatally shooting an Indianapolis police officer in 2020 because doctors have found him to be mentally ill.
Indiana man convicted in fatal 2021 shootings of a woman, her young daughter and fiancé
A man accused of fatally shooting a woman, her young daughter and her fiancé in their northern Indiana home in 2021 has been convicted of all three slayings.
Maine’s top court dismisses an appeal of a judge’s decision on Trump’s ballot status
Maine’s top court has declined to weigh in on whether former President Donald Trump can stay on the state’s ballot, keeping intact a judge’s decision that the U.S. Supreme Court must first rule on a similar case in Colorado.
Alabama set to execute inmate with nitrogen gas, a never before used method
Alabama, unless blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court, will attempt to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas on Thursday night, a never before used execution method that the state claims will be humane but critics call cruel and experimental.
Families sue Kentucky gun shop that sold AR-15 used in 2023 bank shooting that killed 5
The Kentucky gun shop that sold an AR-15 to a man who used it to kill five co-workers and wrote in his journal that the gun was “so easy” to buy is facing a lawsuit filed Monday from survivors and families of the victims.
Appeals court rejects Trump’s bid to reconsider gag order in election interference case
Washington’s federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s request to reconsider a gag order restricting the former president’s speech in the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election.
Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on US-Mexico border
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to resume cutting for now razor wire that Texas installed along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Michigan school shooter’s mother to stand trial for manslaughter in 4 student deaths
The mother of a teenager who committed a mass school shooting in Michigan is headed to trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in an unusual effort to pin criminal responsibility on his parents for the deaths of four students.