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Month: May 2023

New Jersey prosecutors announce murder charge against Virginia man in fatal shooting of councilwoman

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey prosecutors say they have arrested a Virginia man on murder and gun charges in the February killing of a local councilwoman who was found fatally shot in her SUV outside her home. Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Cicconne said 28-year-old Rashid Ali Bynum, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was arrested Tuesday

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Defendant in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre carried out attack, defense acknowledges as trial begins

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robert Bowers carried out the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history when he killed 11 people and injured seven others by storming a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find. On that, everyone agrees. Even though Bowers’ defense conceded the point Tuesday at the outset of

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