LOS ANGELES — D4vd is the “target” of a Los Angeles County criminal jury investigation into the death of a teenage girl. The singer’s star was on the rise, with a global tour in his future, before the discovery of the girl’s remains in the front trunk of his Tesla.

The singer, whose real name is David Burke, has been the subject of ...Read more

Venezuela’s National Assembly said Wednesday it had received the resignation of Attorney General Tarek William Saab, setting in motion a process to appoint a temporary replacement for the controversial prosecutor who has long faced accusations from critics of helping turn the country’s justice system into a tool of political repression.

...Read more

DENVER — Two wolves roamed separately into the southern end of Colorado’s Front Range mountains in February, passing through watersheds west of Pueblo and Colorado Springs, a map released Wednesday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows.

The wolves wandered farther southeast than tracking previously had recorded, but no wolves have spent time...Read more

NEW YORK — The 75,000-plus families that have signed up for New York City’s free 3-K and pre-K programs are still thousands short of last year’s final count with only two days to go until the deadline, the Daily News has learned.

The city received 95,000 total applications last year, a figure that has held relatively steady over the last ...Read more

Capitalizing on a grand stage Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered a State of the Union speech laced with political broadsides blaming Democrats for the nation’s problems, including on immigration and the economy, and heaping praise on himself and his administration for ushering in “a turnaround for the ages.”

He did not ...Read more

In upholding a first-degree murder conviction for an execution-style killing in 2019, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled for the first time on the legal space that digital messages and social media occupy in Minnesota courtrooms.

A unanimous opinion, written by Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, shows that while Minnesotans have constitutional rights...Read more

Two weeks after Gov. Wes Moore signed a law banning 287(g) agreements between local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), sheriffs representing seven Maryland counties gathered in Annapolis on Wednesday to speak against two bills that aim to limit interactions with ICE even further.

After Moore signed the bill, the...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jurors are now deliberating 63 felony and misdemeanor charges against a former Los Gatos woman accused of masterminding pandemic-era sex-and-alcohol-filled parties for her teen son and friends, which authorities and other parents allege enabled girls to be sexually assaulted while inebriated.

Shannon O’Connor, 51, did not...Read more

DETROIT — In addition to accusing a Detroit police sergeant of skirting department policy by calling federal immigration authorities on a motorist during a Feb. 9 traffic stop, Detroit police officials alleged Wednesday that she also mocked the man's inability to speak English.

But when The Detroit News asked police officials for details ...Read more

Cuban authorities said that four people on a Florida-registered speedboat were killed and six were injured in a gunfire exchange with the Cuban coast guard after the speedboat entered Cuban territorial waters.

A statement by Cuba’s Interior Ministry said the “illegal” speedboat was detected one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino ...Read more

WASHINGTON — After sounding the war drums for weeks with warnings to Iranian leaders, President Donald Trump spent scant time on foreign policy matters during his State of the Union address, with lawmakers saying they expected to hear more from the commander in chief.

Trump bickered and traded verbal jabs with Democrats during a nearly two-...Read more

As revelations emerged this week that the U.S. Department of Justice withheld key materials relating to allegations against President Donald Trump in its release of Jeffrey Epstein files, Stetson University College of Law graduates demanded action from the U.S. attorney general’s alma mater.

Pam Bondi earned her law degree from Stetson in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The backers of two resolutions in the House and Senate aimed at preventing President Donald Trump from attacking Iran are gearing up to force the issue soon.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who previously said he was waiting for diplomatic efforts to play out before forcing a vote, vowed Wednesday to bring his Iran war powers resolution ...Read more

Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University and ex-Treasury Secretary, is retiring from his Harvard professorship, following revelations that his ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were deeper than previously known.

“I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship at the end of this academic ...Read more

In response to recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations across Kansas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas said it is reviewing reports of interactions between federal agents and the public, including a recent incident in Johnson County.

The attorney’s office said in a statement that it decided not to pursue ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Nineteen people are expected to be charged in the coming days in connection with a yearslong West Philadelphia gang war that investigators say fueled nearly two dozen shootings — including at least five homicides — across the city, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.

The defendants include members of the Young ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky lawmakers are moving a bill to strip power from the state and local human rights commissions that enforce civil rights law for the public, instead directing aggrieved people to hire lawyers and file lawsuits.

“The reason that I am proposing this is I believe that the right to a jury trial, which is enshrined in the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives underscored the agency’s law enforcement mission but criticized the latest Republican-led spending cut to the agency in written responses to lawmakers.

The responses to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee offer new insight into...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho could be changing the way it handles car registration. House Bill 533, which would end the legal requirements for vehicle registration tags on motor vehicles, has passed both the Idaho House of Representatives and the state Senate.

As of Tuesday, Feb. 24, the bill was headed to Gov. Brad Little’s desk.

If signed into ...Read more