Crime, Law and Justice

Suspect charged in Waseca shooting; officer remains in critical condition
Prosecutors have charged a man with shooting and critically wounding a Minnesota police officer who was responding to a report of a suspicious person. Thirty-seven-year-old Tyler Robert Janovsky was charged Wednesday with three counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Police officer in 'critical but stable' condition after shooting in Waseca
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says the officer and a suspect were taken to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale for treatment. The suspect is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
A 3-decade-long water dispute heads to the Supreme Court
Georgia and Florida have been waging a decades-long legal battle over water resources. It's a problem likely to intensify in other areas as the climate warms.
'An incredibly powerful tool,’ DNA database, turns 30
The FBI's Combined DNA Index System — or CODIS — is a database that has been used to catch the guilty and clear the innocent for decades.
Mississippi district attorney leaves murder case after multiple trials
District Attorney Doug Evans filed a court order Monday recusing himself and asking the Mississippi attorney general's office to decide whether to try Curtis Flowers again in the death penalty case. On Dec. 16, Flowers was released from custody for the first time in 22 years after a judge granted a request for bail.