Crime, Law and Justice

Hundreds honor Pittsburgh shooting victims at St. Paul vigil
The first funerals are scheduled to take place Tuesday for some of the 11 people killed in the attack.
Anger toward media spreads into local communities
So far this year the RTDNA's "press freedom tracker" counts 39 incidents of journalists being attacked in the United States, including the June 28 shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, where five people were killed.
Trump visit stirs debate; massacre defendant in court
The man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday, as some members of the Jewish community and others objected to President Donald Trump's plans to visit.
Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald says 32-year-old Kyle Jaenke-Annis was arrested over the weekend at the home of James and Denise Closs. Authorities say he's not a suspect in the killings or abduction case.
Killing of 2 at Kentucky supermarket is being investigated as hate crime
The police chief of Jeffersontown, Ky., says the attack was racially motivated, and federal prosecutors say they're investigating whether the murders are hate crimes.
Fargo man gets life in prison for kidnapping baby cut from womb
A North Dakota man was sentenced Monday to life in prison for conspiring to kidnap a baby that his girlfriend had cut from their neighbor's body and lying to police about it.
FBI says suspicious parcel was addressed to CNN in Atlanta
Bomb squads were called to a post office in Atlanta on Monday about a suspicious parcel sent to CNN, just hours before a court hearing for a Florida man accused of sending packages containing explosive material to prominent Democrats.
Before shooting, anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise
Jews make up only about 2 percent of the U.S. population, but in annual FBI data they repeatedly account for more than half of the Americans targeted by hate crimes committed due to religious bias.
Survivor of synagogue attack recounts moments of terror
A survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre described Sunday how he and other terrorized worshippers concealed themselves in a supply closet as the gunman stepped over the body of a man he had just shot and killed, entered their darkened hiding spot and looked around.