AKRON, Ohio — An Ohio grand jury declined to indict eight police officers who fired 94 shots in the death of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who fired at least one round at officers during a car and foot chase last summer, the state’s attorney general announced Monday. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said the state’s investigation found that …
Harold W. Carpenter, 63, a suspect in the 1979 cold case murder of Patricia Carnahan in El Dorado County, has been arrested after investigators found a DNA match for an unrelated crime in Washington state. Carpenter’s arrest Wednesday by the El Dorado County district attorney in the 1979 killing was the product of investigative genetic genealogy, with law enforcement in …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Spurred by a recent run of large-scale smash-and-grab robberies, prosecutors and retailers are pushing back on assertions by California’s governor and attorney general that they have enough tools to combat retail theft in the wake of a voter-approved easing of related laws. “We cannot function as a society where we have told people over and over again …
