BOISE, Idaho — Idaho will spend more than $900,000 to renovate its execution chamber to accommodate a firing squad as its lead method, state prison officials told the Idaho Statesman.

The Idaho Department of Correction announced in late May that it was set to begin construction but did not detail the cost. The decision to move forward with ...Read more

DENVER — The man accused of injuring 12 people on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall with a “makeshift flamethrower” and Molotov cocktails spent more than a year planning the “targeted act of violence” against a group calling for the release of Israeli hostages, law enforcement officials said Monday.

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, intended to...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Romanian citizen who authorities say was the leader of a conspiracy that targeted members of Congress and others with “swatting” incidents pleaded guilty Monday, the Justice Department announced.

The department reported that Thomasz Szabo, who was extradited from Romania in November, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The suspect accused of fatally shooting two people including a Baldwin Park police officer over the weekend has been identified as 22-year-old Eduardo Roberto Medina-Berumen, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Monday.

Medina-Berumen was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held in lieu of $4 million bail,...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — A medical doctor testified in the Karen Read murder trial that she believes wounds to John O’Keefe’s arm were “inflicted by a dog.”

“There are multiple groupings of wounds,” Dr. Marie Russell said as she used a laser pointer to indicate on a photograph of O’Keefe’s arm each wound grouping: to the upper arm, to ...Read more

NEW YORK — A letter traced to a prisoner doing time for setting fire to a rabbi’s home was sent to a Brooklyn yeshiva vowing mass shootings, police sources said Monday.

Convict Matthew Karelefsky, 47, is being investigated for sending the letter from Clinton Correctional Facility to Yeshiva Mikdash Melch on Ocean Parkway near Avenue M in ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Vehicle traffic in San Diego was temporarily blocked from entering Mexico on Interstate 5 Monday due to teachers protesting at the border in Tijuana.

All southbound Interstate 5 traffic was diverted off the freeway onto Camino de la Plaza, creating a detour on San Ysidro streets, Caltrans said on the social media platform X ...Read more

Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve sprawls north from Everglades National Park over 729,000 acres of swamp, an ancient forest that protects the endangered Florida panther and the pristine waters of the Everglades — the source of drinking water for millions of south Floridians.

About 2.2 million people visited last year, roughly three ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Patricia Krenwinkel, a former member of the notorious Manson family that carried out a series of grisly killings across Los Angeles, was granted parole, but a final decision on her freedom now rests with Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, her attorney said that after five decades behind bars, it was time...Read more

Attorneys for suspended Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill want a key prosecution witness in her elder exploitation case removed from the proceedings, saying her “contradictory and false answers” in pretrial depositions make her unreliable.

The 17-page motion filed Friday by Hill’s defense team seeks to remove Sandra Lewis from the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, a newly released transcript of the audio recording from the Dali container ship shows routine conversation then panic.

The transcript reveals the moments directly before and after the Dali cargo ship collided with the...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to repeal Biden-era curbs blocking oil drilling across most of the mammoth petroleum reserve in Alaska that’s home to an estimated 8.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the planned policy shift late Sunday at a town hall in Utqiagvik, a village on the...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Salinas man has been released from federal custody after prosecutors charged him with arranging to buy two girls, aged 12 and 14, for a “full girlfriend experience” on a prostitution site, court records show.

Edy Antonio Jr., 30, allegedly insisted that “I was trying to do a good deed,” while being arrested in the...Read more

Now that the Atlantic hurricane season has officially begun, lawmakers and emergency preparedness officials around the country are becoming anxious about the Trump administration’s staffing cuts at the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The NWS, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at ...Read more

A Virginia man was sentenced to one day in jail and a fine of nearly $10,000 after officials say he admitted to killing over 20 bald eagles and hawks.

William Custis Smith pleaded guilty to unlawful taking of a bald eagle, according to court records.

McClatchy News reached out to Smith’s attorney for comment but did not immediately hear back...Read more

Newark Airport’s third runway reopened ahead of schedule Monday, increasing the capacity of the beleaguered transit hub amid staffing and technical concerns that have led to widespread cancellations and delays over the last several weeks.

In announcing the opening Monday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters improvements were ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday it will decide a case out of Illinois over the ability to challenge post-Election Day ballot counting, a high-profile cause for President Donald Trump and Republicans.

The appeal, brought by Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., and Illinois Republican presidential electors, seeks to revive their challenge to...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A San Jose doctor who sued a Los Gatos restaurant claiming its “Dragon Balls” appetizer was so spicy it burned her internally has dropped her lawyer and is representing herself in the court case.

Harjasleen Walia in July 2023 filed a lawsuit in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleging she “incurred permanent ...Read more