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The Justice Department on Monday announced it was considering pressing federal hate crimes charges in the killing of African-American Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery. “The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia have been supporting and will continue to fully support and participate …

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is reviewing additional video footage of Ahmaud Arbery recorded several minutes before he was killed, the Atlanta Journal-Contstitution reported on Saturday. The footage from a home security camera about a block from where Arbery was shot to death shows a man who appears to be Arbery entering the garage of a …

The crime drama “Hightown,” set in Cape Cod, combines three unlikely topics — the opioid epidemic, the LGBT community and some good old-fashioned murder. Premiering Sunday on Starz (8 p.m.), “Hightown” follows Jackie Quiñones (Monica Raymund, “Chicago Fire”), a hard-partying lesbian National Marine Fisheries service agent who discovers a body on the beach, a murder …

Georgia’s attorney general has requested that the Justice Department probe how local authorities handled the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was reportedly out for a jog when he was shot dead by two white men who were not arrested for two months. Attorney General Chris Carr made the formal request to federal …

A father and son were arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated assault and murder in the killing of a young black man, Ahmaud Arbery, more than two months after he was shot and killed in Georgia. Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, were taken into custody and booked in the Glynn County …

A researcher at the University of Pittsburgh whose department says he was close to “very significant findings” about Covid-19 was killed in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Dr. Bing Liu, a 37-year-old research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was found shot dead in his home on May 2. A second …

Veteran “Dateline” correspondent Josh Mankiewicz has gone digital with his first podcast. In “Motive for Murder,” Mankiewicz takes a deeper dive into the twisty tale of two Houston murders featured on a Friday-night  “Dateline” episode he anchored last November on NBC. The first two “Motive for Murder” episodes, available Thursday, are already #1 on Apple’s …

Philadelphia convenience-store merchants are warning that the city’s lax law enforcement amid coronavirus has resulted in rising rates of shoplifting. In March, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said that her department would halt arrests for non-violent crimes — including drug offenses, theft, vandalism, prostitution, and more — to prevent the overcrowding of jails during the …

Political operative and former Trump adviser Roger Stone on Thursday filed an appeal of his conviction for lying to federal investigators in the Mueller investigation. Stone’s attorneys did not offer any arguments directly disputing his guilt or three-year prison sentence, but argued that Judge Amy Jackson had improperly dismissed Stone’s request for a retrial. That …

Arizona police are now conducting a homicide investigation into a woman who claimed she gave her husband fish tank cleaner after President Trump claimed the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment for coronavirus. Wanda Lenius told NBC News last month that she and her husband Gary consumed fish tank cleaner because it contained a …