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Scott Peterson, who was convicted by a California jury of killing his pregnant wife Laci Peterson in 2002, has been denied a new trial.  The 50-year-old Peterson and his legal team argued that a juror in his 2004 murder trial committed misconduct and he deserved a new trial. However, on Tuesday …

One student was killed in a shooting at a Seattle high school Tuesday morning, police said. A suspect is in custody. Officers responded to shots fired inside Ingraham High School just before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz said during a briefing. Police found one student with …

Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted and deleted a link to an article pushing an unfounded conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi. The tweet from Musk, who now owns Twitter, raised concerns about the type of content that will be allowed on the social media site under his control. In …

A former Philadelphia Sheriff’s deputy has been arrested on allegations he sold two semi-automatic pistols to a confidential FBI informant, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The guns were sold to the informant after they had been used in the fatal shooting of a high school student last month, according to court …

Donald Trump isn’t a defendant in the Trump Organization’s New York state criminal fraud trial, but will potential jurors be able to separate the ex-president from the company that made him famous?  That’s the key question they’re being asked, as prosecutors and lawyers for the company try to select an …

As Thanksgiving — and the biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday — approach, major stores are announcing their holiday hours. There are two common approaches: stay closed for the holiday, or open early for Black Friday crowds.  Kohl’s announced on Tuesday that all of its stores will once …

A gunman opened fire on a group of Philadelphia high school football players outside of a scrimmage game on Tuesday, the city’s police department said. One 14-year-old was killed and the four others were injured.  The five teens were shot just as they were walking off the field Roxborough High …

Carlos Alcaraz surged into his first Grand Slam final and gave himself a chance to become No. 1 at age 19 by ending Frances Tiafoe’s run at the U.S. Open with a 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3 victory on Friday night. No. 3 Alcaraz moved ahead by grabbing …

An estimated 17.7 million viewers watched Thursday night’s hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Nielsen Company said that is second to the 20 million who saw the first committee hearing on June 9, the only other one of the eight …

President Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell, former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and White House lawyer Eric Herschmann told the House Jan. 6 select committee in recorded testimony played during Tuesday’s hearing about a “heated” and profane” six-hour White House meeting in mid-December 2020, during which …