CNN — A 30-year-old councilman in the borough of Sayreville, New Jersey, was found shot to death in his car Wednesday, according to authorities. Eunice Dwumfour, a Republican councilwoman, was found by police with multiple gunshot wounds just after 7 p.m. Wednesday and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Middlesex County officials. Dwumfour … Read more
CNN — Two witnesses in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh told a court Wednesday they are “100%” sure Murdaugh’s voice is on recordings that prosecutors say undermine the disgraced former South Carolina attorney’s claim that he was not at the scene of the killings , when his wife Maggie and 22-year-old son Paul were … Read more
CNN — An employee of the Washington, DC metro transit system was shot and killed while trying to stop a gunman from attacking commuters Wednesday morning, police said. Robert Cunningham, a power department mechanic, was identified by police as the person “who intervened on behalf of a customer … at the Potomac Avenue Station and … Read more
CNN — A top Trump Organization executive is expected to appear Thursday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s alleged role in a hush-money scheme, people familiar with the matter said. The director, Jeffrey McConney, the controller of the Trump Organization, is one of the highest-ranking financial staff in the company and … Read more
CNN — The FBI completed a search of President Joe Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and no documents with classified markings were found, Biden’s personal attorney said Wednesday. Bob Bauer, Biden’s lawyer, said the FBI took handwritten notes and some material with it for further review. The search took three and a half hours. … Read more
CNN — After a tip led authorities to two emperor tamarin monkeys believed to have been taken from the Dallas Zoo, questions remain about their brief disappearance and an unidentified man authorities want to speak with. The monkeys disappeared Monday and were found a day later inside a closet in an abandoned home in Lancaster, … Read more
CNN — Tire Nichols, whose death at the hands of Memphis police led to second-degree murder charges against five officers, will be remembered at a funeral Wednesday for the life he lived. Nichols, 29, who was black, was subdued but still beaten after a Jan. 7 traffic stop by Memphis police. He died three days … Read more
CNN — Videos purportedly capturing the moments before being killed by a double amputee man holding a knife after a stabbing are raising questions about whether police used excessive force in the Southern California town of Huntington Park. Thursday afternoon, Huntington Park police officers responded to a report of a stabbing, the department said in … Read more
CNN — A week after authorities discovered a woman bound and beaten in a southwest Oregon home, the kidnapping suspect has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a CNN affiliate reports. Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died at a hospital after an hours-long standoff with law enforcement Tuesday night in Grants Pass, Oregon, CNN affiliate KTVL … Read more
CNN — After a series of suspicious animal events this month, the Dallas Zoo believes two of its emperor tamarin monkeys have been stolen after they were discovered missing from their enclosure Monday and their habitat had been “intentionally compromised.” “Emperor tamarin monkeys would likely stay close to home – the Zoo searched near their … Read more