July 5, 2017 Jury selection halted in Charleston church shooting case Jury selection was halted before it began Monday in the federal case of a white man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners, with the judge holding a hearing closed to everyone but the defendant and his own lawyers.
July 5, 2017 Judge orders release of Orlando nightclub killer's calls to police A judge on Monday ordered the city of Orlando to release audio recordings of the Pulse nightclub gunman talking to police dispatchers and negotiators., but she won't rule on releasing other 911 calls from the mass shooting until she has listened to them.
July 5, 2017 Attorneys for Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof challenge death penalty Attorneys for Dylann Roof, the white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church, want a federal judge to rule the death penalty unconstitutional and allow their client to plead guilty and serve life in prison.
July 5, 2017 Maker of gun used in Newtown school massacre asks judge to drop families' suit A gun manufacturer should be held accountable for selling the public semi-automatic rifles that were designed as military killing machines, a lawyer for families of some victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre told a judge Monday.
July 5, 2017 Charleston church shooting suspect's lawyers seek to waive jury trial Attorneys for the man accused in the shooting deaths of nine parishioners at a South Carolina church have filed notice that they want to forgo a jury trial and have the judge hearing the death-penalty case decide their client's fate.
July 5, 2017 4 killed in shooting, stabbing at New Orleans-area apartment complex Four people were killed and another was critically injured in a grisly shooting and stabbing spree early Wednesday at a New Orleans-area apartment complex, officials said.
July 5, 2017 Dylann Roof's friend dodges harsher punishment Joseph "Joey" Meek, the friend of Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, will not face a tougher sentence for failing to help prevent the massacre, a federal judge ruled Monday.
July 5, 2017 MS-13 gang members indicted in 7 murders including killings of NY teens Thirteen members of the notorious Salvadoran gang MS-13 were charged Thursday in seven murders including the 2016 killings of high school teenagers on New York's Long Island.
July 5, 2017 Pulse nightclub killer's wife to be released from jail ahead of trial Noor Salman, the wife of the killer who opened fire at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando last summer, will be able to leave jail within days ahead of her trial on charges of helping carry out the massacre, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday.
July 5, 2017 Florida sheriff's deputies foil alleged mass shooting plot at middle school Authorities in Florida arrested two teens Thursday for allegedly planning a mass shooting at their middle school.