Erin Patterson is appealing her convictions for murdering three relatives with death cap mushrooms, while prosecutors seek a life sentence without parole. Her lawyers say a jury hotel mix-up and disputed evidence undermined the trial.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola advanced in Alaska’s top-four Senate primary, NBC News projected. The race is complicated by a second Republican candidate named Dan J. Sullivan, whose candidacy has prompted legal challenges and investigations.
James “Mob James” McDonald resisted questions in Duane “Keffe D” Davis’s trial, saying he did not want to help send Davis to prison. Other witnesses described Shakur’s autopsy, the Las Vegas crime scene and Death Row Records security after the shooting.
Former DOJ lawyer Haley Van Erem alleges Trump administration officials pressured civil rights attorneys to target Harvard, Brown and Columbia in antisemitism probes despite insufficient evidence. The Justice Department denies the claims and says it stands behind the investigations.
Police reports say Hayden Panettiere’s on-and-off boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, and his brother were at the Greenville, South Carolina, apartment where she was found unresponsive Sunday. Officials say her cause and manner of death remain pending, with no signs of trauma found in the autopsy.
Fire officials in Bedford County, Virginia, say an 8-foot python contributed to a middle school classroom fire by knocking over a heat fixture. The snake’s owner, a life science teacher, disputes that account and says the python escaped only after the blaze began.
Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American from Ohio, traveled to Qusra in the occupied West Bank after watching settlers surround his family home for more than a week. The siege has trapped Palestinians in several homes as Israeli troops remain in the area.
Former assistant U.S. attorney Sunita Doddamani says the Justice Department unlawfully fired her over her work on a FACE Act prosecution of anti-abortion activists. The department has said it terminated personnel it accused of “weaponizing the FACE Act.”