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A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, indicted a man suspected of killing rapper Takeoff on a murder charge on Thursday. Patrick Xavier Clark is accused of shooting and killing the Migos member, whose real name was Kirshnik Khari Ball, on Nov. 1 outside a Houston bowling alley, the grand jury said, according to court documents reviewed by The Times.Clark, a 33-year-old DJ and nightclub promoter, was arrested by Houston police in December and has been out on a $1-million bond, court records said. He is under house…

An L.A. Metro bus driver was critically injured after being stabbed multiple times Wednesday evening in Woodland Hills, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Authorities said the stabbing occurred around 5:15 p.m. near the intersection of Erwin Street and Topanga Canyon Boulevard.The assailant — described as a 21-year-old man wearing a red shirt, black pants and black backpack — was last seen fleeing on Erwin Street toward Owensmouth Avenue, authorities said. The stabbing occurred after the man boarded the bus…

An 18-year-old man who was charged in the 2020 fatal shooting of Pop Smoke has confessed to killing the rapper during a home invasion in Hollywood Hills.The Los Angeles Times reports the suspect, who was 15 years old at the time of Pop Smoke’s murder, admitted this week to a first-degree murder charge stemming from the killing of the Brooklyn rapper (born Bashar Barakah Jackson). Jackson was fatally shot on Feb. 19, 2020 at the age of 20. A group of attackers broke into an Airbnb where Pop was staying, shooting and…

ALLEN, Texas —  The assailant who killed eight people at a Texas outlet mall was identified by authorities Sunday as a 33-year-old man who had been staying at a nearby motel.Three law enforcement officials who spoke to the Associated Press named the gunman as Mauricio Garcia, who was fatally shot by a police officer who happened to be near the suburban Dallas mall. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss details of an ongoing investigation.One of the officials said investigators have been…

Wheezing after getting on the treadmill. Gulping down air while doing chores. Breathlessness is one of the many scary and frustrating symptoms that can linger in Covid patients months after their initial infection. But while these symptoms were a mystery at the beginning of the pandemic, scientists are slowly unraveling their causes—moving us closer to finding a treatment.In a paper recently published in the European Respiratory Journal, researchers at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom identified a…

CLEVELAND, Texas —  A man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in Texas after they asked him to stop shooting his gun near their home hid out just miles away from the slayings while he and his domestic partner plotted his escape to Mexico, authorities said Wednesday.Francisco Oropeza showered and slept at a house outside the city of Conroe while his partner, Divimara Lamar Nava, got him doughnuts from a nearby store, a prosecutor said. Lamar Nava also acknowledged that she’d delivered a message from Oropeza to his…

Jacob Edwards, owner of Time Tunnel Comics in Hickory, North Carolina, has been reported as helping in the arrest on a charge against a local man.Jacob Edwards, owner of Time Tunnel Comics in Hickory, North Carolina, has been reported as helping in the arrest of a 22-year-old Justin Bradley Johnson on a charge of attempted rape. Johnson was charged by local police with one felony count of attempted second-degree rape in connection to an assault in a shopping centre. Edwards told the Hickory Daily News that he had closed…

It is nearly a decade since Sally Lane received the phone call that changed her life for ever. It came from her elder son, Jack Letts, then 18, who had been travelling in Jordan on a gap-year trip from their home in Oxford. “Mum, I’m in Syria,” Jack said, beginning a chain of events that saw Lane lose her home and her job and, for a time, her freedom. Jack was calling from Raqqa, where he had gone in search of a Muslim caliphate he had fatefully, adolescently, come to idealise, before the horrors of Islamic State were…

Accused of leaking classified documents, Jack Teixeira was charged after a quick investigation focused on his digital trail. The New York Times' investigative journalism team identified Teixeira by finding an Instagram account mentioned in his Steam profile. That, in turn, showed photos of the granite kitchen countertop and floor tiles visible in the leaks. The suspect hasn't yet entered a plea and will face a hearing on April 19th. The charges against him carry a maximum combined sentence of up to 15 years in prison.…

San Francisco police arrested a man on Thursday morning in connection with last week's fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee, according to local media reports.Nima Momeni, who was taken into custody during a search in nearby Emeryville, is suspected of stabbing Lee, 43, multiple times with a knife that was recovered near the scene, independent news site Mission Local reported, citing police sources.A 38-year-old man by the same name was booked into the county jail after 9 a.m. local time Thursday on suspicion of…