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A judge has dismissed all charges against a man convicted of the 1985 slayings of a couple at a south Georgia church, exonerating him after he spent two decades behind bars. Dennis Perry's attorneys say Glynn County Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett on Monday granted a motion by prosecutors to dismiss the case. Scarlett last year gave Perry the chance for a new trial after DNA recovered from the crime scene matched a different suspect. He also ordered Perry’s release from prison while prosecutors decided whether to refile charges. A district attorney who took office in January decided not to pursue the case.

President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary misled Congress about why he sought to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, according to an investigation from the Office of Inspector General, but Trump's Justice Department decided not to prosecute. The watchdog…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — David Hawpe, who rose through the ranks of the Courier Journal to become editor of the Louisville newspaper, which won multiple Pulitzer Prizes on his watch, has died. He was 78. His death Sunday night was…

The Press & Journal, a weekly paper covering Middletown, a small town near Pennsylvania's capital, folded in July 2020 because its ad revenue collapsed in the pandemic. Its publishers, Joe and Louise Sukle, decided there was no future for the…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Casablanca court on Monday convicted prominent journalist and activist Omar Radi on charges of espionage and sexual assault and sentenced him to six years in prison.

TRENTON, N.J., July 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Drivers at XPO Logistics in Trenton, New Jersey made history of their own on Saturday, July 17 by ratifying their first contract, one week after their co-workers in Miami did the same, and…

LONDON (AP) — The British government sought Monday to prevent Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro from gaining access to nearly $2 billion of gold held by the Bank of England as the U.K. Supreme Court started hearing a case that hinges on the question of who should be considered the Latin American nation’s president.

Jury selection has begun in the trial of a man accused of killing the South Carolina woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride. Nathaniel Rowland is suspected in the 2019 kidnapping and killing of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson. Authorities say the University of South Carolina student got into Rowland’s car and was trapped because he had turned on the child locks in his backseat so the doors could only be opened from the outside. Rowland has been jailed since his arrest that year. He could face up to life in prison without parole if convicted.

The Chicago Police Department is rolling out a new effort to attack gun trafficking that relies heavily on people coming forward with information in exchange for money. Superintendent David Brown announced the Gun Investigations Team of 50 police officers and prosecutors on Monday. The money will come from a $1 million fund for tips about illegal guns announced by Mayor Lori Lightfoot last week. The team was created to intercept guns flowing into the city before they are used in crimes. Chicago has seen a surge in gun violence; more than 60 people were shot, including 10 fatally, over the weekend. 

A job performance review from last month shows a supervisor praised Tennessee's former vaccine director for “strong leadership” before a top Tennessee health official on July 9 recommended firing her over claims that include shortcomings in her leadership. The interim performance review sheds additional light on the circumstances before the July 12 termination of Dr. Michelle Fiscus. Over the last week, Fiscus has spoken nationally in rebuttal to a firing she argues bowed to Republican lawmakers who fumed over the department’s COVID-19 vaccine outreach for eligible minors. The Health Department released the firing recommendation letter in response to media public records requests. Fiscus' husband has released several performance reviews in rebuttal.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Belarus raided offices of an independent newspaper and detained three of its journalists Monday as part of a relentless crackdown on media outlets and civil society activists.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Robert E. “Robby” Steinhardt, a violinist and vocalist with the progressive rock band Kansas, has died due to complications from pancreatitis. He was 71. His wife, Cindy Steinhardt, said he died Saturday at a hospital in…

BRUSSELS (AP) — A meeting Monday between Serbia and Kosovo that is part of the European Union-brokered negotiations aimed at resolving a long-lasting dispute that remains a source of tensions in the volatile Balkans produced no progress.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The head of the nation's largest veterans organization warned Congress that the American people will "be furious," if partisan gridlock causes a shutdown of the National Guard and delayed paychecks for its soldiers. "Congress…

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations' human rights chief voiced alarm Monday over the reported use of military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents.