This article was originally published on The Huffington Post by Mary Papenfuss on January 2, 2016  Police say a 15-year-old boy fatally shot a high school student in the bedroom of her Maryland home Sunday. He also shot her mother before turning the gun on himself, authorities say. The boy survived a bullet wound to the head but is […]

This article was originally published on The Washington Post on January 4, 2017 by Matt Zapotosky CHARLESTON — Six weeks after he shot and killed nine people at a Charleston church, Dylann Roof lamented in a jailhouse journal that he could no longer go to the movies or eat good food. But he still felt the massacre was “worth

A motorcyclist probably thought he made a clean getaway after swiping a cellphone from a truck driver in China last month. He almost certainly didn’t expect to see the same truck driver later that morning, standing in the middle of the road, “High Noon” style. As the speeding bike approached, the trucker didn’t back down. He delivered a

In a controversial change to the criminal justice sentencing system in Pennsylvania, judges will now be authorized to award longer penalties for individuals who they believe, according to sociological data, are most likely to offend again. While it can have some practical purposes to combat unnecessary future crimes, this is overall a dangerous practice that

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post by Jenna Amatulli on Dec. 29, 2016  Adnan Syed, the man whose murder conviction was at the heart of the hit podcast “Serial,” will not be released on bail.  The Circuit Court for Baltimore City denied Syed’s motion for release pending appeal on Wednesday. The judge denied the motion “because of

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The number of U.S. executions fell to a quarter-century low in 2016 as new death sentences plummeted, indicating capital punishment is on the decline, a study released on Wednesday showed. The number of U.S. executions in 2016 was 20, the lowest since 1991, according to the study from the Death Penalty

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post by Mary Papenfuss on Dec. 27, 2016 Chicago continued its horrifying parade of violence over the Christmas holiday with 57 shootings and at least 12 dead. Several surviving victims were seriously or critically injured and battling for their lives, the Chicago Tribune reported. The gun violence from Friday to Monday evening surpassed the steep

High school students in Plymouth Meeting, PA, were participants at an assembly earlier this month on the dangers of sexting or sending sexually explicit photographs through their cell phones to students or others. While this lesson has likely been transmitted before, this law enforcement run assembly focused also on the legal ramifications of minors sending photographs

Video of a mannequin challenge that was designed to look like a shooting led Alabama authorities to raid a Huntsville home on Tuesday, leading to two arrests on gun and drug charges, law enforcement officials announced. In the nearly one-minute mannequin challenge video posted on Facebook last month, multiple people appear pointing guns at one another as if

A former Georgia policeman was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of murder earlier this month in the death of a suspect shocked repeatedly with a Taser while handcuffed. Marcus Eberhart, who was a sergeant in the Atlanta suburb of East Point, did not speak after receiving his sentence. His