Page 5 - Eric Ferkenhoff News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Editor's note: The video above contains footage that some may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised. The search for Mollie Tibbetts drew national interest. Young, bright and described as “everyone’s counselor,” Tibbetts, 20, was a college student from rural Iowa whose missing person case involved hundreds of community members in her search and drew national media to Brooklyn, Iowa, about an hour outside Des Moines. Tibbetts had disappeared while out on a run on July 18, 2018. The monthlong search to find her ended on Aug. 21, when a Mexican native, Cristhian Bahena Riv...

Des Moines Register The trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the 26-year-old former farmhand facing life in prison for allegedly killing Tibbetts nearly three years ago, continues Thursday. Jurors heard from six witnesses Wednesday, including the boyfriend of Mollie Tibbetts, during a short day of opening statements and testimony in the first-degree murder trial. During his opening statement, prosecutor Bart Klaver said the jury would see evidence that Bahena Rivera’s car was seen in the area where Tibbetts went for an evening run on July 18, 2018, that he admitted to killing her, that h...

Nationally, Democrats and Republicans diverge widely on policing changes. But it's not a clean partisan split: "You have 50 states doing 50 things."

Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.

USA TODAY Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began his first full day in state prison Wednesday after he was found guilty of murdering George Floyd in a landmark trial. Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after Floyd's death in police custody last May. Tears of joy, relief and resolve to continue fighting for racial justice filled the streets of Minneapolis and around the nation after the verdict was read Tuesday afternoon. Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, and in video footage of his death, F...