Crime

Oklahoma City — A man scheduled to be executed in September for the 1996 killing of a University of Oklahoma dance student plans to reject his chance for a clemency hearing, saying there is little hope the state’s Republican governor would spare his life. Anthony Sanchez, 44, said in a …

During a dayslong drug bust on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians reservation in North Carolina, law enforcement officers seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs and made nearly 100 arrests, authorities announced this week. And during the execution of a search warrant, officers found a 2-year-old — who …

Police in Barry County, Missouri are searching for an escaped inmate after seven prisoners staged a jailbreak on Thursday night, authorities said.  According to CBS affiliate KOLR-TV, seven inmates escaped from the county’s jail early Friday morning. The prisoners allegedly assaulted two correctional officers to make their escape.  The station …

A woman was killed in the crossfire of a shooting on a Dallas street as she and one of her daughters were on their way to get a prom dress, her family said. No suspects were in custody in the deadly shootout between two vehicles over Mother’s Day weekend, police …

On a warm day on Sept. 22, 1990, a 14-year-old boy walking near a creek bed in Opelika, Alabama, discovered the dead body of a young Black man with a single gunshot wound to his head, Opelika Police Department said. For 33 years, investigators have been trying to learn the …

A Louisiana woman accused of killing her boyfriend’s 6-year-old daughter and leaving the child’s body in a bucket outside the home where the girl’s mother lives has been jailed without bond in a New Orleans suburb, authorities said. Bunnak Landon, 43, of Harahan, was booked Wednesday on charges of first-degree …

Bullets sprayed out from a speeding car in Connecticut’s capital, killing an innocent 12-year-old bystander and wounding three other people who have have rap sheets that include gun crimes, authorities said Friday. The suspects in the drive-by shooting appeared to target three males who were standing on a sidewalk on …

The capital murder trial is underway of a Dallas-area mother police say admitted killing her daughters two years ago.  CBS Texas’ Annie Gimbel and Robbie Owens report that Madison McDonald is facing two capital murder charges in the deaths of 1-year-old Lillian Mae McDonald and 6-year-old Archer Hammond. Police in …

A federal grand jury has indicted a New Mexico man on assault and carjacking charges in connection with the 2021 disappearance of a Native American woman whose case has helped to raise awareness about missing people and unsolved slayings in Indian Country. The indictment naming Preston Henry Tolth, 23, was …

Authorities released police body camera footage Tuesday showing officers entering the Christian school in Nashville where six people were killed a day before, searching the hallways for the attacker and taking down the shooter. The six-minute video shows footage from the body camera of responding Officer Rex Engelbert, a four-year …