CONKLIN, N.Y. (AP) — In the waning days of Payton Gendron’s COVID-altered senior year at Susquehanna Valley High School, he logged on to a virtual learning program in economics class that asked: “What do you plan to do when you retire?”
Less than a year before he was accused of opening fire and killing 10 people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store, 18-year-old Payton Gendron was investigated for making a threatening statement at his high school.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A man told police he killed American mathematician Scott Johnson in 1988 by pushing the 27-year-old off a Sydney cliff in what prosecutors describe as a gay hate crime, a court heard on Monday.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi prison violated inmates' constitutional rights by failing to protect them from violence, meet their mental health needs or take adequate steps for suicide prevention, and by relying too much on prolonged solitary confinement, the U.S.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former Department of Homeland Security official's death two years ago that generated right-wing conspiracy theories was ruled a suicide Wednesday by a Northern California sheriff-coroner.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford soccer star Katie Meyer's death has been ruled a suicide.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office confirmed the cause of death Friday.
“The County of Santa Clara Medical Examiner-Coroner is investigating Kathryn Meyer’s death.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The sister of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff and her husband were found dead in what investigators said was an apparent murder-suicide in Florida, according to news reports.
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a Brightline train killed a man who walked onto the tracks, raising the toll of deaths since the Florida higher-speed passenger trains resumed operations.
BROWN DEER, Wis. (AP) — The medical examiner's office on Monday identified the three people killed in a shooting at a suburban Milwaukee apartment building, including the man police say shot the two others before killing himself.