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Authorities are continuing the search for the suspect connected to an "execution-style" shooting that killed five members of the same family in Texas. Authorities are continuing the search for the suspect connected to an "execution-style" shooting that killed five family members in Texas, including an 8-year-old boy. The carnage began Friday night after neighbors asked the suspect, Francisco Oropeza, 38, to stop shooting his gun in the yard of his home in Cleveland, Texas, about 50 miles north of Houston, investigators said. The San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office received a call around 11:31 p.m. Friday detailing harassment, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told reporters on Sunday. When deputies arrived at the home, they found five victims at the property, Capes said. In this aerial view, an exterior of a crime scene where five people were killed after a shooting inside a home, April 29, 2023 in Cleveland, Texas. Go Nakamura/Getty Images Three minors who...

A prosecutor has asked a judge to have a joint trial for seven sheriff’s deputies and three hospital workers charged in the death of a 28-year-old man who was pinned to the floor as he was being admitted to a psychiatric hospital RICHMOND, Va. -- RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Seven sheriff’s deputies and three hospital workers should be put on trial together for the death of Irvo Otieno, who was pinned to the floor while being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital, a prosecutor argued Wednesday. All 10 defendants are charged with second-degree murder in Otieno's March 6 death. An autopsy determined the 28-year-old man died of asphyxia while he was in handcuffs and metal leg restraints and held to the floor for about 11 minutes, Dinwiddie Commonwealth's Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill wrote in a motion seeking to try all the defendants together. Baskervill argues that the 10 defendants “acted together” and should be tried together. “It is not irrelevant that if one person here ha...

President Joe Biden has declared part of South Florida a disaster area after record flooding struck the area earlier this month FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- President Joe Biden declared Florida's Broward County a disaster area Friday, two weeks after record-breaking rain left parts of Fort Lauderdale and its suburbs flooded. Gov. Ron DeSantis had requested the declaration earlier this week. The declaration makes Broward residents and Business owners who incurred damage to their homes and other property eligible for a wide range of federal loans and other assistance. Local governments and nonprofit organizations are also eligible. More than 2 feet (0.6 meters) of rain fell in some parts of the county on April 12. The 1-in-1,000-year deluge left some neighborhoods with up to 3 feet (0.9 meters) of water. About 1,000 homes were severely damaged, according to the state. The flooding also closed the airport for almost two days. Gas deliveries to the port were also slowed, causing long li...

Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusations led to murder of Emmett Till, has died at 88. Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of whistling at her and making sexual advances, leading to Till's kidnapping and lynching, has died, according to the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana. She was 88 years old. In 1955, the 21-year-old Bryant Donham accused Till, who was visiting from Chicago, of whistling at her after leaving a store in Mississippi. Till was later abducted from his great-uncle Moses Wright's home by Bryant Donham's husband Roy Bryant and his half brother J.W. Milam. Mrs. Carolyn Bryant sits with her husband Roy, in court where Roy and his half brother, J.W. Milam, are on trial for the "wolf whistle" kidnap murder of Emmett Louis Till, in Sumner, Mississippi, Sept. 22, 1955. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images MORE: Arrest warrant in Emmett Till case found in Mississippi court basement after 67 years Till's brutalized remains we...

In the heart of California, some rural communities are facing the prospect of being marooned or flooded out by rising water LEMOORE, Calif. -- Ron Caetano is packed and ready to go. His family photos and valuables are in the trailer and he’s put food in carry totes. He moved the rabbits and chickens and their automatic feeders to higher ground. He and his family and dogs could get out in less than an hour, they figure, should more heavy rain or hot weather melt so much mountain snow that gushing water overwhelms the rivers and channel that surround their tight-knit, rural Central California community and give it its name, the Island District. “The water is coming this way,” said Caetano, who started a Facebook group to help organize his neighbors. “I am preparing for the worst and praying for the best and that’s all we can do.” After more than a dozen atmospheric rivers dumped epic rain and snowfall on California, a reservoir that stores water upstream is expected to receive three tim...

Former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter, who was convicted of killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a traffic stop, was released from prison Monday. Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer convicted of killing Daunte Wright -- a 20-year-old Black man shot during a traffic stop -- was released from a Minnesota Correctional facility Monday. Potter was released at 5 a.m. ET, Andy Skoogman, spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, said in a press release Monday. She was released early this morning "out of an abundance of caution for the safety of Ms. Potter, DOC staff and the security of the correctional facility," according to Skoogman. Potter was convicted of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11, 2021, incident. She had pleaded not-guilty to both charges. She was sentenced last year to 24 months in prison and a fine of $1,000, far below what the prosecution had asked for. Wright was pulled over for an expired registrat...

One of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died HONOLULU -- Ken Potts, one of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102. Howard Kenton Potts died Friday at the home in Provo, Utah, that he shared with his wife of 66 years, according to Randy Stratton, whose late father, Donald Stratton, was Potts' Arizona shipmate and close friend. Stratton said Potts “had all his marbles” but lately was having a hard time getting out of bed. When Stratton spoke to Potts on his birthday, April 15, he was happy to have made it to 102. “But he knew that his body was kind of shutting down on him, and he was just hoping that he could get better but (it) turned out not,” Stratton said. Potts was born and raised in Honey Bend, Illinois, and enlisted in the Navy in 1939. He was working as a crane operator shuttli...

An appeals court has returned E. Jean Carroll's defamation case to a judge who had rejected former President Trump's claim that he was acting in his official capacity. A federal appeals court in New York on Friday returned E. Jean Carroll's initial case against former President Donald Trump to a district court judge who had previously decided Trump did not act within the scope of his employment as president when he denied Carroll's rape claim and allegedly defamed her. Carroll, a former Elle columnist who alleges that Trump attacked her in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman luxury department store in the 1990s, claims Trump defamed her in 2019 when, during his presidency, he denied her rape claim by calling her a liar and saying "she's not my type." Trump, who also denies the accusations, has argued that the Justice Department should be substituted as the defendant in the case because, at the time of his allegedly defamatory statements, he w...

An investigation into the death of a man whose family claims he was "eaten alive by insects and bedbugs" in an Atlanta jail has led to changes. An investigation into the death of a man whose family claims he was " eaten alive by insects and bedbugs" in an Atlanta jail has led to "sweeping changes," according to the Fulton County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Patrick "Pat" Labat said in a statement Monday that he's asked for and received the resignations of multiple employees of the Fulton County Jail: the chief jailer, assistant chief jailer and the assistant chief jailer of the site's Criminal Investigative Division. The resignations come after the lawyer of LaShawn Thompson's family said last week that Thompson's body was discovered in a "filthy jail cell" on Sept. 13, 2022, after medical staff allegedly ignored his declining Health . "They literally watched his health decline until he died. When his body...