A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when he stabbed a woman and killed two officers before the house he and two women were believed to be in burned, authorities and neighbors said Monday.
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Bringing federal hate crime charges over a machete attack that left five people wounded at a New York rabbi’s home, prosecutors on Monday highlighted anti-Semitic evidence in the suspect’s internet search history.
Read moreWhen a suspect walked into the home of a rabbi celebrating Hanukkah this weekend and stabbed five celebrants it was the latest in a week of anti-Semitic attacks in the nation’s most demographically diverse area — and an incident that reverberated across the country.
Read moreA knife-wielding man stormed into a rabbi’s home and stabbed five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City, an ambush the governor said Sunday was an act of domestic terrorism fueled by intolerance and a “cancer” of growing hatred in America.
Read moreBalking at the 80% discrepancy with federal guidelines, the Second Circuit threw out what it called a “shockingly low” 17-year sentence for a Staten Island man who stabbed an FBI agent in the name of the Islamic State group.
Read moreA 20-year-old attacker carried out a series of stabbings and carjackings at a suburban Portland shopping center and nearby town Wednesday, killing one person and wounding three others before being arrested, authorities said.
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An anti-government assailant stabbed a pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker who was campaigning Wednesday, police said, in an escalation of violent protests demanding political reforms in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Read moreA Dutch court on Monday sentenced an Afghan asylum seeker to more than 26 years in prison for stabbing two American tourists at an Amsterdam train station last year.
Read moreA Southern California man who police say went on a three-hour violent crime spree that left four people dead across two cities was charged Friday with murder, attempted murder, assault and other charges.
Read moreA 33-year-old Southern California man who “unleashed evil” in a series of random stabbings that began Wednesday afternoon killed four people, according to police.
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A man who was “full of anger” stabbed, slashed and robbed his way across two Southern California cities Wednesday in a bloody rampage that killed four people and wounded two others who were apparently targeted at random, authorities said.
Read moreThe fathers of two American teenagers jailed in Italy over the death of a police officer arrived in Rome to support them, with one saying his son didn’t know his friend had the 7-inch, military-style knife said to have been used in the stabbing.
Read moreItalian police on Tuesday provided more details – but also stoked more questions – surrounding the killing of a plainclothes Carabiniere officer who is said to have been stabbed to death in central Rome by a teenager from California during a drug deal gone bad.
Read moreOne of two American teenagers jailed in Rome for allegedly slaying a police officer said he stabbed the plainclothes officer because he feared he was being strangled, according to a judge’s ruling obtained by The Associated Press on Monday.
Read moreA man carrying a knife in each hand and screaming “I will kill you!” attacked a group of schoolgirls and adults as he walked toward a school bus parked at a bus stop just outside Tokyo on Tuesday, killing two and injuring 16 before killing himself, officials said.
Read moreThe man accused of killing homeless San Diegans in a 2016 murder spree appeared in San Diego Superior Court Monday for a competency trial that will also determine whether he can assist in the defense of his case.
Read moreA Wisconsin teenager convicted of the attempted murder of her classmate at the behest of fictional boogeyman Slenderman has appealed her sentence of 40 years in a mental institution , arguing her mental condition led to unfair proceedings.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court on Monday overturned a man’s murder conviction and ordered retrial, finding the trial court should have ordered competency proceedings when the suspect stopped taking antipsychotic medication and gave incoherent testimony at trial.
Read moreAn assailant stabbed a policeman Tuesday close to the Grand Place in Brussels’ historic center, before officers got to the scene and shot the suspect.
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