Crime

One former student called the school’s founder, Jeannie Courtney, “the all-powerful cult leader — God.”
The hoax at New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst was prompted by a civilian employee who felt ostracized by her colleagues.
Prosecutors allege Tyler Robinson shot Kirk in the neck with a bolt-action rifle from the roof of a nearby campus building.
Magione appeared in court Tuesday for a pretrial hearing. Prosecutors have yet to set a trial date in any of the cases against the 27-year-old alleged shooter.
Mark David Chapman, who killed the former Beatle outside a Manhattan apartment building in 1980, has been denied parole for a 14th time.
Decarlos Brown Jr. faces a federal charge of causing death on a mass transportation system, which carries up to life in prison or the death penalty.
The boy pleaded not guilty to a total of five charges, four of them felonies, in juvenile court on Monday.
Former Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson told police after the incident that he had taken psychedelic mushrooms about two days earlier, and hadn’t slept in over 40 hours.
Michael Paul Brown, 45, allegedly shot a bartender and three patrons at an Anaconda bar last month and also tried to damage or destroy the bar by lighting objects inside it on fire.
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