Convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof has been given nine life sentences for the 2015 massacre at Emanuel AME Church in exchange for his guilty plea in state court.
A teacher and a student were shot to death and a second student critically wounded Monday in a murder-suicide at a San Bernardino elementary school that spread panic across a city still recovering emotionally from a terrorist attack at a community center just 15 months ago.
Prosecutors have asked police to do more investigating before charging a suspect in a triple homicide at a St. Paul apartment building. The death of another suspect has been ruled a suicide.
The county saw opioid-related deaths jump nearly 60 percent in 2016, with the dead ranging from stillborn to age 66. Fentanyl's presence is creating a "Russian roulette" scenario for addicts, one researcher says.
Pope Francis has dismissed a Roman Catholic priest from New Hampshire who was convicted of stealing $300,000 from a hospital, a bishop and a deceased priest's estate.
Officers cited Tyler Gottwalt in November 2014 for violating a city ordinance that prohibits carrying an uncased firearm in public. He had a permit to carry the gun and a Stearns County District Court later dismissed the case.