Posts Tagged Violent crime

Mourners gather to remember Malcolm X’s grandson

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds gathered Friday to remember the late grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X as mourners said Malcolm Shabazz was well on his way to cementing his own legacy.

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Arrests in New Orleans parade shootings cheered

Shawn Scott, 24, a suspect in the Mother's Day parade shooting  is led out of the New Orleans 5th District Police Station, Thursday, May 16, 2013 in New Orleans. Shawn and Akein Scott. two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a neighborhood Mother's Day parade. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Days after bursts of gunfire brought a chaotic and bloody end to a Mother’s Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans, news of now seven arrests gave an organizer of the traditional event reason to celebrate again.

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Lawyer: Assault on Brown athlete was self-defense

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A 22-year-old New York man has been charged with disorderly conduct following an incident in which a Brown University basketball player was assaulted and suffered severe head injuries.

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Albuquerque police investigate drive-by shooting

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police are searching for leads in a drive-by shooting that landed a UNM Cancer Center executive in the hospital.

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Trial to begin Monday in Las Cruces for 3 killings

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A man stands trial Monday in Las Cruces in the 2010 killings of a New Mexico couple and their business partner from California.

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