EVANSTON, Wyo. (KSTU) — Mark Douglas Burns has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2001 murder of Sue Ellen Gunderson Higgins in Evanston, Wyoming. The ruling dashed Burns’ hopes of receiving the death penalty. Judge Joseph Bluemel agreed with prosecutors that a death sentence would not be an appropriate punishment for … Read more
ATLANTA (WSB) — Billboard-charting R&B singer Ann Marie was arrested last week in Atlanta after police say she shot her friend in the head at the Buckhead Intercontinental Hotel. Police said the incident happened on Dec. 1. Multiple officers responded to reports of a shooting at the hotel. Police found the victim, Jonathan Wright, lying … Read more
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (WPIX) — Veron Primus, a man indicted in absentia 10 years after the 2006 cold-case murder of Brooklyn high-school student Chanel Petro-Nixon, has escaped for a second time from prison on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. A police bulletin was issued for Primus, 33, and convicted killer, Ulric … Read more
WASHINGTON (KXAN/AP) — Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy announced Tuesday that 14 leaders at Fort Hood were either “relieved or suspended” as a result of an independent investigation into violence at the post, including murders, sexual assaults and suicides. Two general officers are among those being removed from their jobs, as top Army leaders on Tuesday … Read more