Crime, Law and Justice

Cruz appears in court, remains silent when asked about plea
The former student charged with killing 17 people at a Florida high school last month refused to announce a plea on Wednesday so a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
After mishandling Parkland shooter tip, FBI answers questions from Congress
The FBI says it received multiple tips about the alleged Florida school shooter but did not follow proper protocols. Now, senior officials are answering questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Police say the man fatally shot on a sidewalk in Rochester was a husband and father of three who fled his homeland of Iraq several years ago.
Joel and Mary Rich allege Fox News, a reporter and a guest commentator used "lies, misrepresentations and half-truths" in a May 16, 2017, article that claimed their son Seth Rich had leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks during the presidential campaign.
3 charged in Bloomington mosque bombing
Authorities say three men from rural central Illinois are responsible for the attack on the Dar al Farooq Islamic Center last August. An informant tipped off the police.
Florida prosecutors seeking death penalty in school shooting
The former student charged with killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month will face the death penalty, prosecutors said Tuesday.
ICE spokesman quits over leaders' use of 'misleading facts' to discuss Calif. arrests
"I told them that the information was wrong, they asked me to deflect, and I didn't agree with that," said James Schwab, who resigned from his job at the Department of Homeland Security.
Chief Heith Janke says the pursuit began about 8 p.m. when the man refused to pull over for a traffic stop. Janke says the suspect rammed a squad car and eventually stopped in a driveway.
Tillerson casts poisoning as sign of more aggressive Russia
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cast the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain as part of a "certain unleashing of activity" by Russia that the United States is struggling to understand. He warned that the poisoning would "certainly trigger a response."