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An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding an end to Trump administration workplace raids targeting industries with large immigrant workforces. The class-action lawsuit, filed Tuesday by concrete worker Leo Garcia Venegas with the public interest law firm Institute …

The search for the killer of four teenage girls in the “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt” case spanned 34 years, but in the end, it was built on a series of rapid breakthroughs in the past four months. Using a combination of new DNA testing, ballistics examinations and old-fashioned boots-on-the-ground police work, authorities say they are convinced they have linked the …

Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenage girl who was found dead in the front trunk of a Tesla in a Hollywood tow yard, is finally going home after the medical examiner’s office released her body back to her family on Wednesday. How her body wound up in the trunk of a multiplatinum musician’s vehicle while he is in the middle of …

Three students were injured at Carrick High School on Wednesday morning following a stabbing, authorities said. Pittsburgh police, firefighters and EMS personnel were dispatched to the school for a “critical incident,” Pittsburgh Public Safety said Wednesday morning. A spokesperson for Pittsburgh Public Schools released a statement detailing the incident, saying a student used a “small knife” to injure three other students. …

Authorities in Washington state have found human remains they believe are those of Travis Decker, the fugitive father accused of killing his three young daughters earlier this year before disappearing into the wilderness.  The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Thursday evening that “while positive identification has not yet been confirmed, preliminary findings suggest the remains belong to …

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Valerie Nagle spent decades wondering what happened to her older sister who was last seen in Oregon in 1974. She searched online databases of unidentified persons cases looking for her and sent DNA to a popular ancestry website in the hopes of finding a match. That all changed in June when authorities in Oregon called Nagle …

Authorities have identified the remains of a 15-year-old girl found in the trunk of a Tesla belonging to an R&B singer in Los Angeles earlier this month. The girl’s name was Celeste Rivas, and she was from Lake Elsinore, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office. Her cause of death has not been determined, authorities said, but is …

In the frantic hours after political activist Charlie Kirk was killed by a sniper at a Utah university, those closest to the alleged shooter began making wrenching discoveries, authorities said. In charging Tyler Robinson, 22, authorities revealed new details about the hours after the shooting and how they led to the arrest. Robinson was charged with seven counts, including one …

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say more than 100,000 people took part in the latest pro-Palestinian protests that interrupted the final stage of the Spanish Vuelta and forced organizers to cut short the Grand Tour event on Sunday, capping a campaign of disruptions. The central government’s representative for the Madrid region said that authorities estimated more than 100,000 people joined …

The 22-year-old suspect behind the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is “not cooperating” with investigators, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and two law enforcement sources said. Cox stressed on several Sunday morning news shows that investigators are still trying to pin down a motive for the attack and said more information may come out once the suspect, Tyler Robinson, appears …