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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After more than 30 years of questions, a family says they now know the nation’s most prolific serial killer murdered their loved one. Bernice Talley said the news sent chills through her. She was just 5 years old when her mother Zena Marie Jones never came home in July 1990. “I heard […]

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff’s department says it has identified the remains of a woman found nearly 44 years ago. Investigators believe Clara Birdlong was a victim of Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Little confessed to killing at least two women in the Memphis and West Memphis area. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history with nearly 60 confirmed victims, died Wednesday in California, officials said. He was 80. Samuel Little, who had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments, died at a California hospital. He was serving a life sentence for multiple counts […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police are using technology in hopes of generating more leads in a cold case linked to the nation’s most prolific serial killer, Samuel Little. They’ve created a new image of one of his victims, a woman who was killed in Memphis more than 30 years ago. Zena Jones disappeared in July […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police say a woman shot her husband in the leg after he allegedly strangled her Sunday night. According to MPD, a little before 10 p.m., officers responded to a shooting in North Memphis. A woman told police she shot her husband, Samuel Edwards. Police found him with a gunshot wound to […]

A wagon bearing two small caskets covered in tarp rounded a corner in the small town of Manton, Michigan, on Thursday, leading a funeral procession for two young Amish children who were killed in an accident this week.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Brock Purdy’s day started with a botched audible that led to a crushing hit and ended with an emotional hug with his family and congratulations from Tom Brady. In between came a stretch of nearly flawless play that made Purdy’s first career start a very successful one. Purdy threw two […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether to jettison a decades-old decision that has been a frequent target of conservatives and, if overruled, could make it harder to sustain governmental regulations. The justices agreed to hear an appeal that takes aim at a 1984 case known as Chevron. It involves […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders struggled Tuesday to paper over their differences as a cacophony of opinions and reactions marred the bloc’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. But they did claim to be united behind Israel’s right to defend itself within the bounds of international law. Since the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked southern […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — With security threats to Supreme Court justices still fresh memories, Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday praised programs that protect judges, saying that “we must support judges by ensuring their safety.” Roberts and other conservative Supreme Court justices were the subject of protests, some at their homes, after the May leak of […]

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing that prize organizers said gives “voice to the unsayable.” The novelist and playwright said the prize was recognition of “literature that […]