American Expat Among UK Terror Victims
An American man was among the three victims stabbed to death in a park in the English town of Reading that is being treated as a terror attack, the U.S. ambassador to Britain said Monday.
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Prisoner Blinded by Cellmate Fights to Revive Civil Rights Case
A Florida prisoner asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to reinstate his lawsuit claiming that prison officials violated his civil rights when they put him in a cell with an inmate who later stabbed him in the eye with scissors while he was asleep.
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Trial Begins for Jailed American Pals in Policeman’s Slaying
After months in a Rome jail, a pair of boyhood pals from California went on trial Wednesday, accused of murdering an Italian policeman during a summer vacation in Italy.
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US Student’s ‘Confession’ in Italy Cop Death Was Mistranslated: Lawyer
The apparent confession by a U.S. student that he knew an Italian he stabbed to death last year was a policeman was flawed due to a mistranslation, his lawyer said Thursday.
Read moreOregon Train Stabbing Case Goes to the Jury
Attorneys argued Wednesday over whether a man who punctuated a racist rant on a crowded commuter train by stabbing three unarmed men did so in self defense.
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Street Stabbing Brings New Terror Rules in UK
The British government plans to announce new rules for the imprisonment of convicted terrorists after an Islamic militant recently released from prison stabbed two people in south London, the second such attack in less than three months.
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Suspect in Hawaii Police Killings Called Unhinged
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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Feds Document Search History of Hanukkah Stabbing Suspect
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 moreJewish Leaders Seek Action After Latest ‘Senseless’ Attack
When 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 more5 Stabbed at Hanukkah Celebration in Latest Attack on Jews
A 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 moreCourt Chucks ‘Shockingly Low’ 17-Year Term for FBI Stabbing
Balking 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 moreOne Dead, 3 Stabbed in Portland, Oregon Suburb
A 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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Pro-Beijing Lawmaker in Hong Kong Stabbed While Campaigning
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 moreDutch Court Hands Down 26-Year Sentence for Train Station Attack
A 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 moreMurder Charges Filed in Deadly Orange County Crime Spree
A 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 morePolice Give Timeline of SoCal Crime Spree That Left 4 Dead
A 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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4 Dead, 2 Wounded in Southern California Rampage
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.
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