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Your morning briefing for 22 November 2019.

A jury in New Zealand on Friday convicted a 27-year-old man of murdering a British woman backpacker, media said, in a case that shocked the Pacific nation.

The gwidow of slain L&B Spumoni Gardens co-owner Louis Barbati could barely hold it together when she took the stand at the trial of her husband's alleged murderer.

Can the true crime trend bring an end to one of the Netherlands most mysterious murders?

Police in Southern California arrested a man for the allegedmurder of a 34-year-old old Army veteran and kidnapping when they found a hostage in the suspects home Monday, the Anaheim Police announced Wednesday, according to a report.

Officials said Thursday they found the body of Jaime Feden, who was allegedly lured into the Nevada desert by her married boyfriend and killed.

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Robert Hayes was arrested in September, more than a decade after his alleged crimes.

The daughter ofRussell Montoya the man accused of killing his friend and encasing his body in concrete at his Colorado home says she knew something was off, and contacted police about her dad, according to an arrest affidavit.

James Krauseneck is accused of murdering his wife Cathleen with a blow from an ax 37 years ago in New York.

A suspect who is accused of killing a Detroit police officer and wounding another with an assault-style rifle appeared to be trying to "bait" the officers, the police chief said.

Conservatives have credited stop-and-frisk dropping crime rates in New York City during the 1990s, but statistics show it wasn't the magic bullet some thought.

As a struggle with an irate suspectunfolded on a tarmac between A and B gates at Terminal 1, an officer fired two rounds and struckthe man.

Detroit police Officer Rasheen McClain was shot and killed Wednesday night while responding to a 911 call about a break-in at a house.

Demarieo Jermaine McGee is charged with two counts of attempted murder. Monquez Johnson is charged with obstruction of justice. A third suspect was released from custody without being charged with any crime.

Students, staff, and others at Elgin Community College held a one-hour discussion on implicit bias this week. The discussion on long-standing, preconceived notions and stereotypes included views on police, religion, health care, and more.

Police found Calvin Ramone Davenport, 20, in Snohomish County, Washington

Deputy constable Daryl Jones has been fired after a viral video surfaced in which he was seen harassing a pair of black men in a parking lot foryou guessed itacting suspicious.

Aaron Cody Smith took the stand to testify about the slaying of 58-year-old Greg Gunn in February 2016.

Detroit Police Department gives details on 'heartbreaking' incident on Detroit's west side that left officer Rasheen McClain dead

Two former Houston Police officers involved in a botched drug raid that killed two people earlier this year have been arrested on federal charges.

Thousands of police officers marched to Portugal's parliament on Thursday to demand better pay and conditions, in the biggest police protest since the Socialists came to power in 2015.

A 16-year-old student who opened fire at his Southern California high school last week, killing two students and then himself, used a "kit gun" assembled from parts.

An unregistered "ghost gun" was used in the deadly shooting at Saugus High School in Southern California last week, authorities said Thursday.

Because of Aurora Police Officer Marco Gomez's heroics on Feb. 15, the injured Pratt shooting victim, who was also wounded while serving with the Marines in Iraq, will be recognized in a pregame ceremony at Sunday's Chicago Bears game.

A 16-year-old boy who opened fire at his Southern California high school, killing two classmates and wounding three others before shooting himself in the head, used a "ghost gun" built from parts, the local sheriff said on Thursday.

Complex arrays of microphones are often used by law enforcement and the military to help quickly pinpoint where the sound of gunfire originates. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that videos captured by smartphones can be just as useful for determining the location of a shooter.

Three out of four U.S. children and teens killed in mass shootings over the past decade were victims of domestic violence and generally died in their homes, according to a study released on Thursday by the gun control group Everytown.

The Saugus High School shooting in California renewed calls for metal detectors. But experts don't believe that's the best way to protect students.

Police in Duncan, Oklahoma, believe the gunman who fatally shot two people Monday killed a woman he had been married to and the man she was dating. The gunman also killed himself.

These proposed laws wouldn't have made any difference in the Virginia Beach shooting.

The friend of the gunman who killed nine people in a popular nightlife district in Dayton, Ohio, in August has pleaded guilty to federal firearms charges.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota researchers have created a new database that seeks to help understand circumstances that contribute to mass shootings in the United States.

Sunday evenings attack killed Xy Lee, a Hmong singer and musician whose videos on YouTube have been viewed millions of times.

Leaders are working on how to protect the public and police in confrontations.

Authorities have been searching for Michael Brown, a 22-year-old Marine combat engineer, since last weekend.

The mother and grandmother of a U.S. Marine wanted for the alleged murder of his mothers boyfriend in Virginia pleaded her son to turn himself in Friday.

A grand jury found the shooting death of black teen DeVon Bailey was justified because of Colorados "fleeing felons" law.

A grand jury declined to press charges against two Colorado Springs police officers who were filmed shooting and killing a black teen earlier this year.

Michael Alexander Brown is accused of killing his stepfather

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A pair of Colorado Springs police officers will not face charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a black man in August.

A former St. Louis cop pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to assaulting a fellow officer who he thought was a demonstrator during a protest in 2017, according to the Department of Justice.

Every Sunday for the last six years, artist Nikkolas Smith has taken out his iPad in his Los Angeles home, blocking out a few hours to paint whatever comes to mind. Sometimes his subjects are topicalfamous figures or events that made the news. Other times, hell experiment with landscapes and techniques. Last month, as he was scrolling through the news on Saturday night, he came across the story that 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson was shot and killed by a Texas police officer.

Attorney Benjamin Crump talks about his new book, "Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People" and offers an action plan to end racism in America.

A former CIA officer who pleaded guilty to an espionage conspiracy with China could be facing more than two decades in prison

The man who strangled British backpacker Grace Millane in what his defense attorney said was a case of "rough sex" taken too far was found guilty of her murder on Friday.

A former Las Vegas Strip casino card dealer was sentenced Thursday to at least 38 years in state prison for shooting one supervisor dead and badly wounding another in a planned attack at a company picnic in April 2018.

The spokesman for an Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis who has been accused of sex abuse criticized Argentine prosecutors for requesting an arrest order against him, saying the release of information his presumption of innocence

A former leader of the militia group called 3% of Idaho has pleaded guilty to grand theft after he cheated 19 clients from his former property management company out of about $100,000, prosecutors said.

A western New York man convicted of leaving threatening voice mails for two Republican members of Congress has been sentenced to five years in prison

Brandon Curtiss led a group of armed men that set up a security perimeter three years ago during a standoff at Oregons Malheur Wildlife Refuge, authorities said.

Catherine Pugh acknowledged her guilt in a scheme in which she took orders for her self-published Health Holly book series and used the money for herself and to advance her political career.

Justin Antoine McDonald, 39, spit on Portland officers four times from December 2018 to October 2018.

Inyoung You, a former Boston College student, will be arraigned tomorrow in Boston court.

Crown attorneys, making their sentencing submissions in the case of Philip Grandine, who was found guilty of manslaughter in February in the death of his wife Anna Grandine, have asked that he spend 13 to 15 years behind bars.

A judge dismissed charges Thursday against a Democratic activist who allegedly engaged in oral sex with a mentally disabled student as a school employee.

Burglary, theft and criminal defacement of property were among police report items in Franklin Park and Northlake in November 2019.

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. Christian N. Brown, 30, of New York, and Michael A. Priester, 21, of South Carolina, are charged with second-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, first-degree theft of property, first-degree receiving stolen property and attempting to elude officers.

Alcides Moreira, 50, of Kearny, faces carjacking and other charges after crashing two vehicles in wild escape attempt.

Even thieves get hungry.

Three people were charged Tuesday and Wednesday with trying to steal merchandise from the Bayonne Walmart in two separates incidents, police said.

It was about 4 a.m. when three men in a pickup truck pulled up to the Big Boys convenience store in the 500 block of Jefferson Boulevard in Tarrant. The caper was caught on video.

A Florida man who allegedly robbed a bank while donning a "Make America Great Again" shirt apparently received far more money than he demanded and told the teller to give him a smaller amount of cash.

A CVS robbery in Sugar Land earlier this month is believed to be connected to a string of robberies in the greater Houston area, according to officials from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Houston Crime Gun Strike Force.

Ubisoft has teamed up with Netflix for a Rainbow Six Siege event based on the Spanish crime drama series La Casa de Papel, better known to US audiences as Money Heist. You don't actually get heist any money, though: Instead, Attackers must rescue a hostage dressed in the show's distinctive red outfit and Dali mask, who's being held by Defenders in the game's Bank map.The hostage isn't the only one done up in the eye-catching outfit. Hibana, an Attacke

HAYWARD, Calif. - A man died after being stabbed with his own knife on a California commuter train while trying to stop the attacker from stealing the shoes of a sleeping passenger, authorities said Wednesday.

An accused purse thief was arrested at a Florida Walmart, according to a police report from the Volusia County Sheriffs Office.