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A statewide charging ruling interrupted the prosecution, but a grand jury revived the case before Kendall Ramsey’s 2026 conviction. HONOLULU, Hawaii — When criminal charges against Kendall Ramsey were dismissed in 2022, the ruling did not settle whether he was responsible for the deaths of his girlfriend and infant son. It reset the way prosecutors had to bring the case. Four years later, an Oahu jury has convicted him of first-degree murder. The procedural detour …

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The immigration action followed the arrest of a Nicaraguan man accused of killing his roommate during an Aug. 2 confrontation. HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — A Florida roommate killing that began as a local police investigation now involves two separate government systems after federal immigration authorities placed a detainer on the 27-year-old man jailed on a first-degree murder charge. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged the detainer for Edy Jose Rivas-Rizo with the Broward County Jail …

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The 42-year sentence followed a Walmart stabbing, a cross-country flight and a later solicitation case uncovered inside the Sumner County Jail. GALLATIN, Tenn. — Nearly two years after a stabbing outside a Gallatin Walmart sent police searching across state lines, Larry Wayne Cole has admitted a series of crimes that prosecutors say continued after his arrest and eventually put his former spouse’s family at risk. Judge Jennifer Nichols sentenced Cole, 21, to 42 years in …

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Traci McNeely and her children Carson Pipkin and Kailee Warren were killed in 2021 before a nearly five-year prosecution reached sentencing. COLUMBIA, Tenn. — Traci McNeely, her 20-year-old son, Carson Pipkin, and her 11-year-old daughter, Kailee Warren, died together in a 2021 shooting at their Maury County home. On Aug. 4, a jury sentenced another of McNeely’s sons, Nathanial Pipkin, to death for their murders. The sentence came after jurors convicted Pipkin of three counts …

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Jennifer Mulligan’s prosecution moved from a first-degree murder arrest to a second-degree plea before a judge imposed a 17-year prison term. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Fifteen months after Jennifer Mulligan called 911 and told a dispatcher she had intentionally shot her elderly father, the Virginia Beach case has ended with a second-degree murder conviction and a 17-year active prison sentence. The path from the May 7, 2025, shooting to the Aug. 4, 2026, sentencing included …

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The 30-year-old nursing student was honored with posthumous college degrees before her killer received a 50-years-to-life prison term. MARTINEZ, Calif. — More than two years after Brittany Elizabeth Ligdis was killed in her Pinole home, a judge sentenced Jeffery Kendall to 50 years to life in prison, resolving the central criminal case while leaving another public record behind: the life Ligdis was building as a mother and nursing student. The July 31, 2026, sentence followed …

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The child suffered a non-life-threatening hip wound after confronting his adult cousin about using his gaming system without permission, police said. SUNRISE, Fla. — In Florida, a 12-year-old boy was treated for a non-life-threatening wound after police said an argument over his gaming console escalated into an alleged stabbing by his 28-year-old cousin, despite a great-grandmother’s attempt to stop the confrontation inside a Sunrise apartment. The child’s condition provides the clearest starting point for an …

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Prosecutors have filed evidence-tampering and corpse-abandonment cases while police continue investigating the circumstances that led to the Kansas City woman’s death. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Four people have been charged in the case of Amber Simpson, but the most serious question remains unanswered: Authorities have accused them of crimes involving her remains, not of causing the 41-year-old woman’s death. That distinction has become more important as the investigation has widened. Damon Thomason, Felix Watson, Brianna …

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The pending prosecution combines an autopsy ruling, police findings and family testimony while the accused mother maintains her not-guilty plea. LAS VEGAS — The criminal case against Alivia Bree Thrift is moving toward a 2027 jury trial in which prosecutors will try to turn three different categories of evidence — medical findings, conditions inside a Henderson apartment and warnings from relatives — into proof that she murdered her 14-month-old daughter. Thrift, 26, has pleaded not …

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Police say Susan Gehrke was fatally injured after approaching a man who had just been knocked to the ground outside an apartment. TUCSON, Ariz. — The homicide of Susan Marie Gehrke began, according to investigators, as a two-victim assault: one man was knocked to the sidewalk, Gehrke moved toward him, and then she suffered the blow and fall that would prove fatal. The injured man has received far less public attention than Gehrke, but police …

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