Crime, Law and Justice

Protests move to Alabama's Capitol after officer cleared in shooting death
On Thanksgiving night, Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was shot and killed by a police officer responding to gunfire in the mall. Protesters are angry at a new report that exonerates the officer.
San Francisco police release sketch of "Doodler' killer
More than 40 years after a serial killer dubbed the "Doodler" terrorized San Francisco's gay community, police released a sketch Wednesday of what the man might look like today.
Report: Minnesota is top in nation for snowmobile theft
Thieves stole more than 300 snowmobiles in Minnesota over three years from 2015 to 2017, a new report finds. That's about two Polaris, Arctic Cat, Yamaha and Ski-Doo skedaddles a week, according to data compiled from police reports.
Patterson skips preliminary hearing in Jayme Closs case; arraignment date set
Jake Patterson, the Wisconsin man accused of kidnapping Jayme Closs and killing her parents, waived his right to a preliminary hearing in a court appearance Wednesday morning.
U.S. prosecutors sue to stop nation's first supervised injection site for opioids
The U.S. government is intervening to stop the creation of a medical facility in Philadelphia where people could inject heroin without risk of overdose. Canada and Europe already have such sites.
Fate of Mexican drug lord El Chapo now rests with U.S. jury
After nearly three months of testimony about a vast drug-smuggling conspiracy steeped in violence, a jury began deliberations Monday at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.