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Texas congressman's breaks with GOP could lead to censure

Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas is facing a rare potential censure back home over votes that included supporting new gun safety laws after the Uvalde school shooting that was in his district

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'Very significant injuries': four hurt, two dogs stabbed in armed home invasion

Police have been told five men - wearing balaclavas and armed with weapons including machetes, knives, hammers and a pole - forced their way into the house and assaulted four occupants, demanding money.

Newcastle Herald

Illinois judge strikes down state's ban on high-powered guns

CHICAGO — A downstate judge on Friday struck down the ban on high-powered firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines that Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law earlier this year, a ruling the Illinois attorney general’s office immediately appealed to the state Supreme Court.

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3 Indiana men guilty in fatal shooting of 3 men, 1 woman

A prosecutor says three Indianapolis men have been convicted of murder and other charges in the fatal shooting of three young men and a young woman found slain in a ransacked apartment

The Independent UK

Utah man who killed family was investigated by child agency

New documents reveal that child protective services had opened an investigation of a Utah man just weeks before he killed seven of his family members and then himself

The Independent UK

Michigan judge rules Oxford school district has immunity, can't be sued

DETROIT — The Oxford school district and its employees have government immunity and can’t be sued in the November 2021 mass shooting at Oxford High School that killed four students and injured seven others, an Oakland County judge ruled late Friday.

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Defense lawyers in Idaho stabbing case say gag order needed

Defense attorneys for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to keep a gag order in place

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2 shot, 1 fatally, in West Garfield Park

Danny Smith Jr. and another male were found shot about 8:45 a.m.

Chicago Sun-Times

Capitol rioter guilty of stealing badge from beaten officer

A New York man has pleaded guilty to stealing a badge and radio from a police officer who was brutally beaten as rioters pulled him into the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol over two years ago

The Independent UK

Inmate beaten to death in max security wing of Cook County Jail

Marvell Reasonover, 28, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, officials said. His death was ruled a homicide.

Chicago Sun-Times

Texas Education Agency would have new power to enforce school safety plans under Senate bill

The bill, introduced months after the Uvalde school shooting, also allocates more funds to the state’s school safety allotment, which is money given to districts to improve campus security.

The Texas Tribune

DeSantis says he supports open carry in audio recorded from gun rights group

TAMPA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis was recorded Thursday telling a member of a gun rights group that he supports allowing Floridians to openly carry guns in public — a measure that has been publicly opposed by some law enforcement officials and that would go further than any bill now…

Tribune News Service

Police given more time to question two men over detective’s shooting in Omagh

Both men remain in custody in the Serious Crime Suite at Musgrave Police Station.

The Independent UK

Man, 21, taken to hospital with knife injuries to arm and hand following assault in Felling

Police are looking to piece together what led to a 21-year-old being rushed to hospital with wounds caused by a blade

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Bump stocks sales resume in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi after ATF misses deadline to appeal reversal of ban

WASHINGTON — Gun shops are selling bump stocks again in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi after federal regulators failed to appeal a ruling that lifted a ban imposed after a Las Vegas rampage left 58 people dead.

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Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison for double murder; attorneys say they’ll appeal conviction

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys will quickly file an appeal of their client’s double-murder conviction, they said in a press conference Friday.

Irish Mirror

Takeaway delivery driver who shot teenage customer dead on doorstep in Meath jailed for life

"Inexplicably and shockingly he was shot having ordered a pizza, it is unspeakable".

The Independent UK

Murdaugh's fast conviction sealed by his testimony: experts

Prosecutors produced no direct evidence linking South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to the killings of his wife and son, yet a jury took less than three hours to convict him

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Fiancée of slain reporter says she has his sperm and aims to raise $50,000 to have IVF

Casey Fite, the fiancée of Spectrum News 13 reporter, Dylan Lyons, says she harvested his sperm after he was shot dead alongside a nine-year-old girl, and is raising money to be able to have his baby and ' continue his legacy'

Los Angeles Times

Special counsel urges LA sheriff to ban the 'cancer' of deputy gangs

LOS ANGELES — After dozens of interviews and seven public hearings, the Civilian Oversight Commission's special counsel has released a 70-page report condemning the "cancer" of violent deputy gangs and urging Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna to create a policy officially banning the secretive groups.

Chicago Tribune

Accused shooter of slain Chicago police Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso ordered held without bond

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge ordered an 18-year-old man held without bond Friday after he was accused of murder in the death of Chicago police Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, who was shot and killed responding to a domestic-related call this week.

The Independent UK

Accused Chicago officer killer ordered held without bond

A judge ordered a teenager held without bond Friday in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer

The Independent UK

Murdaugh judge's own legal story unfolded in South Carolina

The judge who sentenced Alex Murdaugh on Friday to life in prison for killing his wife and son has earned attention and plaudits for his even-handed demeanor throughout the trial and for his dressing-down of the once-prominent lawyer just before he sent him to prison

The Independent UK

Hobbs vows not to carry out execution scheduled by court

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says corrections officials won't carry out an execution even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state’s new attorney general

Salon

Jon Stewart corners pro-gun Republican

"That is hypocrisy at its highest order," Stewart told Republican who wants to protect kids from drag shows instead

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