The fourth and final former Minneapolis cop has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for his role in the 2020 killing of George Floyd.
The sentence handed to Tou Thao, 37, by the county judge was six months longer than the sentence proposed by Minneapolis prosecutors.
‘I was hoping for a little more remorse, regret, acknowledgment of some responsibility. And less preaching,’ Judge Peter Cahill said to Thao during sentencing on Monday.
It comes three months after Thao, a
At least 30 people were killed and dozens of others injured on Sunday after an express train derailed in southern Pakistan, officials said, thrusting the dilapidated state of the country’s railway infrastructure back into the spotlight.
At least 11 carriages of the train, the Hazara Express, with at least 950 passengers onboard, fell off the tracks near the town of Nawabshah, local news media reported. The train, which left Karachi at 8 a.m., was heading to Havelian, in the northern
A 23-year-old woman avoided jail time Wednesday after stabbing her blind date last year in a Las Vegas-area hotel room to get “revenge” for the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
While on a blind date with Daniel Trevino, a man she connected with on the dating app Plenty of Fish, Nika Nikoubin blindfolded Trevino and stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife while the two were having sex in a hotel room, according to
Birds get electrocuted on power lines. But people shooting at birds perched on power poles may be even more of a problem. In a survey of five sites in the western United States, two-thirds of birds found dead beneath power lines had been shot.
Avians found dead along power lines are often assumed to have died from electrocution, especially if their bodies show burns or singeing, said Eve Thomason, a wildlife biologist at Boise State University in Idaho. But the
Armed men killed 13 people and wounded two in a northern village in the mineral-rich but impoverished Central African Republic, local officials said Wednesday.
Ousmane Youssef, a tribal chief in the village of Diki near the country’s border with Chad, said a group of armed men entered the community Tuesday and called a meeting with local residents and leaders, before shooting them point-blank.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but in March, the U.N. condemned an attack on
July 11, 2019: Lori Vallow’s husband, Charles Vallow, is killed by her brother, Alex Cox, in Arizona. Police initially rule that Alex acted in self defense but reopen the case months later after the children are reported missing.
August, 2019: Lori moves children JJ and Tylee to Rexburg, Idaho, close to where her future husband Chad Daybell lives with his wife Tammy.
September 8, 2019: Tylee is seen alive for the last time during a trip to Yellowstone National Park
A former Olympic boxer was convicted of kidnapping and killing his pregnant lover by tossing her off a bridge into a lagoon in Puerto Rico, allegedly after she refused to get an abortion.
Félix Verdejo-Sánchez, 30, was found guilty on Friday of kidnapping resulting in death and intentionally killing an unborn child following a three-month trial in the U.S. District Court of Puerto Rico. The jury of three women and nine men deliberated for three days but could not reach
Two people have died after two aircraft collided mid-air in Brisbane, Australia.
The incident between the light aircraft occurred at Caboolture Airfield on Friday morning (July 28).
Despite the efforts of paramedics and rescue workers, both occupants of one of the planes died.
Footage of the crash site shows a large number of paramedics and emergency workers at the scene.
Following the accident, it was announced that the victims of the crash were a man and a woman in their
A depraved devil-obsessed loner who sexually assaulted and murdered his 16-year-old sister was branded a ‘disgusting human’ by peers who revealed he once ‘threatened to rip’ an unborn baby from the womb of a pregnant student.
Connor Gibson, then 19, was found guilty of murdering his younger sister Amber after tearing her clothes off with the intent to rape her, before strangling her on November 26, 2021.
Former classmates at Kear Campus in Blantyre, Lanarkshire – a secondary school for
