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Syrian government troops and allied militiamen seized more ground in Aleppo’s ancient quarters on Wednesday. (FOX)- Further widening their control over an enclave in the divided city that has been in rebel hands since 2012, Syria’s state media and an opposition monitoring group said. The state news agency SANA said the Syrian forces established control […]

With the execution Tuesday of a man convicted of killing his father-in-law, Georgia has put to death nine inmates this year — more than any other state. (FOX)- William Sallie’s time of death was 10:05 p.m., after an injection of compounded barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson, Warden Eric Sellers told witnesses. Sallie, […]

Police said Tuesday that a Las Vegas smoke shop worker was arrested on a murder charge for fatally shooting an unarmed 13-year-old who ran into the shop to steal items last week. (FOX)- Clerk Raad Sunna, 24, was arrested Monday night after police reviewed surveillance video from inside the smoke shop recorded during the Friday […]

A judge on Monday declared a mistrial after the jury remained deadlocked in the case of a white police officer charged with shooting a black driver in South Carolina last year. (FOX)- The defense in ex-patrolman Michael Slager’s five-week trial argued that he feared for his life when 50-year-old Walter Scott got control of the […]

Local and federal law enforcement authorities in Los Angeles have stepped up security on the city’s Metro rail system after the FBI received a tip that a terror attack on a subway station was planned for Tuesday. (FOX)- Although the threat’s credibility had not been confirmed, authorities were taking no chances, Deirdre Fike, assistant director […]

The man charged with the shooting deaths of nine parishioners at a South Carolina church asked a judge on Sunday if he could have his defense team back, at least temporarily. (FOX)- In a handwritten request, Dylann Roof asked U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel to bring his defense team back on board for the guilt phase of […]

A senior Iranian official has warned the U.S. of a “firm and strong reaction” if it persists in actions he says are endangering a nuclear deal aimed at curbing programs Tehran could use to make atomic arms. (FOX)- Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi is alluding to a bill before President Barack Obama that would […]

A 16-year-old has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the death of his 16-year-old classmate whose headless body was found near the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts. (FOX)- Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said Mathew Borges was arrested Saturday morning. The decapitated body of 16-year-old Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino was discovered by the […]

The Latest on the fatal shooting of a police officer in Tacoma, Washington. (FOX)- Authorities say a man who fatally shot a Tacoma police officer Wednesday impersonated a law enforcement officer about two weeks prior at the Tacoma Mall. The News Tribune reports (https://goo.gl/f1wl8z ) Bruce R. Johnson was spotted walking through the mall Nov. […]

A Jamaican fugitive sought in the slaying of four people at a Los Angeles birthday party in October was added Thursday to the FBI’s most wanted list. (FOX)- A reward of up to $100,000 was offered for information leading to the arrest of Marlon Jones, who should be “considered armed and extremely dangerous,” the FBI […]