Alabama Father and Son Were Sentenced to a Combined 84 Years in Prison for a Sex Trafficking Ring Targeting Women and Minors
Five individuals, including a father and son from Montgomery, Alabama, were sentenced Thursday for their roles in a sex trafficking operation that exploited seven victims, two of them children. The sentences total 120 years in prison. Kimani Jones, the 32-year-old ringleader, received 54 years. His ...
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Iranian Man was Arrested After Attempting to Enter Britain's Nuclear Submarine Base at Faslane
A 34-year-old Iranian citizen and a 31-year-old woman of unspecified nationality were arrested Thursday afternoon after attempting to enter HM Naval Base Clyde, the Faslane facility in Western Scotland that serves as home to Britain's nuclear submarine fleet. Police and the Ministry of Defence are i...
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Loyola Chicago student Sheridan Gorman was fatally shot near campus; a masked suspect remains at large
An 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student was shot and killed early Thursday morning while walking with friends near the school's Lake Shore Campus. Sheridan Gorman was struck in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect, who was wearing a face covering, opened fire on the group ...
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FBI receives final footage of Savannah Guthrie's mother riding in an Uber before she vanished from her Tucson home
Surveillance video capturing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie inside an Uber on the night before she disappeared has been turned over to the FBI, nearly seven weeks after she was abducted from her Tucson home with no arrests and no suspects named. The footage, taken on January 31, shows Guthrie riding to h...
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Suspicious package outside MacDill gate contained “possible energetic materials,” FBI says
The FBI says a suspicious package found outside a gate at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa contained “possible energetic materials.” That is not a phrase any serious country should get used to hearing near a major U.S. military installation, let alone during a period of heightened alert tied to a...
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Three charged in alleged $2.5 billion scheme to funnel AI server technology to China through shell companies
Federal prosecutors have charged three men linked to Super Micro Computer Inc. in what officials describe as a sprawling conspiracy to smuggle billions of dollars in American artificial intelligence technology to China using fake documents, shell companies, and staged equipment designed to deceive i...
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Newly unearthed Whitey Bulger manuscript points to FBI framing of former agent John Connolly
Attorneys for former FBI agent John Connolly filed a motion Monday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court to vacate his conviction, armed with what they describe as a bombshell: an unfinished manuscript by James "Whitey" Bulger himself, along with FBI reports, that they say prosecutors sat on for years. Connol...
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Iowa police arrest woman in 2011 murder of realtor Ashley Okland after nearly 15 years
A 53-year-old woman named Kristin Ramsey has been charged with the first-degree murder of Ashley Okland, the Iowa realtor who was shot to death while showing a model townhouse during an open house in 2011. Ramsey was arrested on Tuesday, March 17, and is being held on a $2 million cash bond. The arr...
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Four Michigan officers were injured pulling five passengers from a blazing car wreck in Canton Township
A car slammed into a tractor-trailer near an intersection in Canton Township on Wednesday just after noon, erupting into a fireball that trapped five people inside the vehicle. Four Michigan police officers charged into the inferno, pulling all five passengers through flames and thick, black smoke b...
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Arizona GOP candidate launches recall effort against Pima County sheriff overseeing Nancy Guthrie case
A Republican congressional candidate in Tucson is circulating a recall petition against Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, the lawman whose department is leading the investigation into the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC "Today" host Savannah Guthrie. Daniel Butierez, who is ...
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