A passenger smuggling dozens of venomous vipers was stopped after flying into the financial capital Mumbai, India, from Thailand, Indian customs officials said. The snakes, which included 44 Indonesian pit vipers, were “concealed in checked-in baggage,” Mumbai Customs said in a statement late Sunday. “An Indian national arriving from Thailand …
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The son of the man suspected in the apparent assassination attempt in Florida against former President Donald Trump has been arrested on federal charges of possessing child sexual abuse images. Oran Alexander Routh was arrested this week after authorities searched his Greensboro, North Carolina, home “in connection with an investigation …
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A North Dakota man was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for running over and killing an 18-year-old after a small-town street dance last year in a case that drew the attention of Donald Trump after the driver initially claimed the teen was a “Republican extremist” who threatened him. …
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An Ohio man has been convicted of abuse of a corpse and evidence tampering in the case of a Kentucky teenager whose body was found in Ohio a decade after she disappeared. Jurors in Clermont County deliberated for more than nine hours over two days before convicting 35-year-old Jacob Bumpass …
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One of two Birmingham, Alabama, firefighters who were shot while on duty last week has died, Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service said. Jordan Melton was shot last Wednesday at a fire station in what the police chief said could have been a “targeted” attack. “Jordan was a vibrant young brother …
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A man convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl and her babysitter more than three decades ago has been sentenced to death by a judge in southwest Florida. The sentencing came not long after Joseph Zieler elbowed his own attorney in the face in the courtroom, CBS affiliate WINK-TV reported. …
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In 1978, a garment bag containing a woman’s heavily decayed remains was discovered in a remote area of northern Nevada. The case soon went cold — and the victim remained nameless for 45 years. But on Wednesday, Nevada State Police announced that advancements in DNA testing have finally led to …
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The FBI has more than doubled reward money in an effort to catch a Chicago man accused of killing his wife just hours after they got married more than a decade ago. Investigators say Arnoldo Jimenez, now 41, fatally stabbed his wife less than 24 hours after their wedding in …
Read More »Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body wasn’t found for more than a decade after she disappeared from her family home in New Jersey. The state’s attorney general said …
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Jury selection began Monday in the federal death penalty trial of a truck driver accused of shooting to death 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Robert G. Bowers, who is from the Pittsburgh suburb of Baldwin, faces 63 counts in the …
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