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The Mid-State Correctional Facility is seen in Marcy, N.Y., April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Hill, File)

Former New York prison guard pleads guilty in connection with inmate’s beating death

A former correction officer has pleaded guilty for his role in what prosecutors call a coverup of the beating death of an upstate New York prison inmate by fellow guards.

May 30

Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams outside the High Court in Dublin, Friday, May 30, 2025, after he was awarded 100,000 euro (£84,000) in damages after winning his libel action against the BBC. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams wins libel case against BBC over claim he sanctioned killing

May 30

This image obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times shows Larry Hoover. (Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

What to know about onetime Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, whose federal sentence Trump commuted

May 29

Pamela Smart answers questions from the defense in her murder conspiracy trial, March 18, 1991, in Rockingham County Superior Court in Exeter, N.H. (AP Photo/Jon Pierre Lasseigne, File)

New Hampshire governor rejects hearing for Pamela Smart, sentenced to life for husband’s 1990 death

May 29

Former District Judge Sonya McKnight, who was accused of shooting her estranged boyfriend in the head as he slept, leaves the Susquehanna Twp. Police department, Feb. 15, 2024. (Sean Simmers/The Patriot-News via AP, File)

Ex-Pennsylvania judge gets prison term for shooting and wounding her ex-boyfriend as he slept

May 29

Reward for tips leading to arrest increased in hunt for 2 Louisiana fugitives

Authorities have upped the reward for tips that lead to the arrest of the two Louisiana inmates who are still on the run after a mass jailbreak nearly two weeks ago. Eight of the ten inmates are back in custody.

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Caves, other hideouts in mountains are part of hunt for fugitive ex-police chief

Civil rights leaders mark the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s murder in Houston

Five years after murder of George Floyd, change remains a challenge in Minneapolis

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Karen Read, who is accused of killing her boyfriend Boston police Officer John O'Keefe, in 2022, during her murder trial at Norfolk Superior Court, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Prosecution rests in trial of Karen Read who’s charged in death of Boston police officer boyfriend

May 29

A flier looking for Grant Hardin hangs on the glass of a business, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in downtown Calico Rockt, Ark. (AP Photo/Nicholas Ingram)

Authorities eyeing whether a kitchen job had a role in the ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ prison escape

May 29

Defense attorney Gerald Kelly confers with defendant Stephen Stanko during a pretrial hearing at the Georgetown County Courthouse in Georgetown, S.C., Monday, July 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Tom Murray, Pool, File)

South Carolina Supreme Court rejects inmate’s request for more firing squad details

May 28

Cheryl Tillman, mayor of Gateway, Ark., and sister of James Appleton, who was fatally shot in 2017, works on her laptop at Town Hall on May 28, 2026. Grant Hardin, who briefly served as police chief, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)

Caves and abandoned cabins are searched as the hunt for the ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ continues

May 29

Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments, are returned to Namibian tribal leaders during a ceremony on Sept. 29, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Namibia holds its first genocide remembrance day to mark mass killings by colonial ruler Germany

May 28

Ohio divorce lawyer pleads not guilty in 2013 fatal stabbing of client

May 28

This image provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections shows Grant Hardin, a former police chief and convicted killer, escaping the North Central Unit prison wearing a disguise in Calico Rock, Ark. (Arkansas Department of Corrections via AP)

What we know about the escape of a former police chief and convicted killer in Arkansas

May 28

Defendant Karen Read speaks with her attorney Alan Jackson during her murder trial in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., Friday, May 30, 2025. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle via AP, Pool)

Things to know about the retrial of Karen Read in the killing of her police officer boyfriend

May 30

This cover image released by Little, Brown and Co. shows "Nightshade" by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown and Co. via AP)

Book Review: A detective banished defies orders not to investigate a murder in ‘Nightshade’

May 27

This undated photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections Communications Department shows inmate Grant Hardin. (Arkansas Department of Corrections Communications Department via AP)

Manhunt launched for ex-police chief known as ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ after his escape from prison

May 28

In this Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 file photo, workers raise a banner with a photo of Jordanian pilot Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, held captive by the Islamic State group, outside a tent for supporters in Amman, Jordan. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser file)

Swedish man charged over 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State group

May 27

Issa Al H., accused of stabbing three people to death during a city festival, sits in the courtroom of the Higher Regional Court in Duesseldorf, Germany, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Federico Gambarini/dpa via AP)

Suspect in fatal knife attack at German festival admits killings as trial starts

May 27

Aarhus Water works at the sewer where the body of a man was found on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Bo Amstrup/Scanpix via AP, file)

Danish people arrest 2 on suspicion of killing a man whose body was found in a sewer

May 26

People visit George Floyd Square on the five-year anniversary of Floyd's death, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

How has Minneapolis changed since the murder of George Floyd 5 years ago?

May 26

This undated photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections Communications Department shows inmate Grant Hardin. (Arkansas Department of Corrections Communications Department via AP)

Former police chief, serving murder and rape sentences, escapes from Arkansas prison

May 27

A person visits the spot of George Floyd's murder at George Floyd Square on the five-year anniversary of Floyd's death, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Thousands mark 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s murder as they call for justice and decry Trump

May 26

Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo sits for a portrait in Minneapolis, Minn., on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

Ex-Minneapolis police chief recalls ‘absolutely gut-wrenching’ moment of seeing George Floyd video

May 24

June execution is scheduled for a Florida man convicted of raping and killing a woman

May 23

In this image from video provided by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Coffee County Sheriff Fred Cole speaks with reporters in Douglas, Ga., on Friday, May 23, 2025, to discuss the arrest of Jon Worrell in the 2006 death of his wife, Doris Worrell. (Georgia Bureau of Investigation via AP)

Georgia man who fled with the nanny after his wife’s killing is charged with murder 19 years later

May 23

Leader of neo-Nazi “murder cult” extradited to the US from Moldova

May 23

Protesters and police face each other during a rally against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP, file)

Five years later: How the murder of George Floyd changed America

May 25

People gather to light candles in a makeshift memorial to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim who were killed as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, during a candlelight vigil outside of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

Suspect in shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers railed against Gaza war in online posts

May 23

Philadelphia police Officer Mark Dial, center, arrives at the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice in Philadelphia, Sept. 19, 2023, with attorneys for a bail hearing. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)

Ex-Philadelphia officer convicted of manslaughter, not murder, in traffic stop shooting

May 23

Deputy director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Madison Sheahan, flanked by Acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Todd Lyons, speaks during a news conference at ICE Headquarters, in Washington, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

A look at the deportees on plane that headed for South Sudan from US

May 22

Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker announces that former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr who fatally shot a Black man in the back of the head after a tumultuous traffic stop will not face a second trial during a news conference on Thursday, May 22 at the Kent County Administration Building in downtown Grand Rapids. (Isaac Ritchey /The Grand Rapids Press via AP)

A Michigan police officer who killed a Black motorist won’t face a retrial, prosecutor says

May 22

Terri Osborne, center, speaks as her brother, Mike Robirds, right, listens outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution after the execution of Oscar Smith Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. Osborne and Robirds are siblings of Judy Robirds, shown in the photograph at right, who was murdered, along with her sons, shown in the photograph at left, by Oscar Smith in 1989. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Tennessee man is executed for killing his wife and her 2 sons, 3 years after last-minute reprieve

May 22

Flowers and candles are pictured as law enforcement work the scene after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy were killed in a shooting near a Jewish museum in DC

May 23

This photo provided by the Kansas Highway Patrol shows Trooper Conroy O’Brien, who was killed in 1978. (Kansas Highway Patrol via AP)

Kansas’ parole board has reversed its decision to release a man convicted of a trooper’s 1978 murder

May 20

Nebraska man not guilty by reason of insanity in Creighton University baseball director’s death

May 20

This undated photo provided by the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) shows FDNY EMS Lt. Alison Russo-Elling. (FDNY via AP, File)

New York man convicted of fatally stabbing EMS worker as she walked to a store to get food

May 19