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Former SC officer to be sentenced in killing of unarmed black man

With prosecutors calling for his client to spend the rest of his life in prison, an attorney for former South Carolina officer Michael Slager painted him Monday as a dedicated and professional former law enforcement officer who'd never exhibited a tinge of racism.

Tampa killings suspect faces 4 counts of murder

After a nearly two-month search, Tampa police arrested a 24-year-old man on four counts of murder in connection with a series of fatal shootings that had terrified residents in the city's Seminole Heights neighborhood.

'Tumultuous divorce' behind boy's apparent murder

A "tumultuous divorce" led a California man to kill his 5-year-old son in April, investigators said Monday, three days after 35-year-old Aramazd Andressian Sr. was arrested and charged with murder even though his missing son has not been confirmed dead.

Murder charge added in Washington toddler's death

 A western Washington woman who admitted to authorities that she abused a 2-year-old boy she was watching after he became upset when his mother left has been charged with murder in the boy's death.