Posts tagged crime

Long-sealed Notorious B.I.G. autopsy released

Notorious B.I.G. was killed by a single bullet that pierced several vital organs in a 1997 drive-by shooting. 

The shooting is still one of Los Angeles’ highest-profile unsolved murders.

Scores in N.C. are legally innocent, yet still imprisoned

Terrell McCullum did not commit a federal crime by carrying a shotgun and a rifle out of his ex-girlfriend’s house. But he is serving a federal prison sentence for it. And the fact that everyone — including the U.S. Justice Department — agrees that he is legally innocent might not be enough to set him free.

A USA TODAY investigation, based on court records and interviews with government officials and attorneys, found more than 60 men who went to prison for violating federal gun possession laws, even though courts have since determined that it was not a federal crime for them to have a gun.