News of the Day From Across the Nation
The papers on Wednesday ran brutal editorials saying they are fed up with everything from Christie’s famous sarcasm to “his long neglect of the state to pursue his own selfish agenda.”
Four Minnesota men who have pleaded guilty to conspiring to support the Islamic State group are being ordered to participate in a study that will recommend programs to deradicalize them.
The study was ordered Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Michael Davis, who’s been working on plans to help reintegrate terror suspects into the community.
The FBI has arrested a South Florida man in the heist last year of $4.8 million in gold bars from a truck along Interstate 95 in North Carolina.
Miami FBI spokesman Mike Leverock says Adalberto Perez, 46, was taken into custody Wednesday at his home in Opa-Locka.
Details about the charges and Perez’s alleged role in the robbery were expected to be released later.
Authorities in Mississippi are searching for a capital murder suspect who escaped from a county jail and is onsidered armed and dangerous.
Multiple news outlets report that 33-year-old Rafael McCloud escaped from the Warren County jail early Wednesday.
Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace says McCloud briefly took a jail employee hostage and forced the hostage to give McCloud his clothes.
5 Murder charge: A white Alabama police officer was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of a black man who, a family lawyer says, was walking home when he was slain outside a neighbor’s house.
Montgomery police officer Aaron Smith, 23, is in custody, District Attorney Daryl Bailey said.
No charges will be filed after an incident at Texas A&M University in which black high school students touring campus reported hearing racial slurs and taunts.
Students from a southwest Dallas high school said a Texas A&M student approached them and asked them to look at her Confederate flag earrings.
Young declined to say whether he expelled the student or if any others face disciplinary action.