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Dutch prosecutors said Monday they were seeking to confiscate a record $253 million from one of Europe’s most notorious drug lords, thought to be hiding in Sierra Leone. The illegal assets amassed by Jos Leijdekkers, also known as “Bolle Jos” or “Chubby Jos,” were proceeds from cocaine trafficking, as well …

Ten inmates considered “armed and dangerous” escaped a New Orleans jail Friday morning, and it’s believed they had inside help, the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office said. Three inmates have been captured, and seven remain at large.   Earlier, the sheriff’s office had said 11 inmates had escaped the jail but …

Authorities in Ohio launched a homicide investigation after the bodies of three women were found Saturday inside a home in Columbus. Officers were called to a home on the city’s south side just before 4 p.m. Saturday for what a 911 caller described as a medical event. Police found three …

GLIGO BEACH, N.Y. — Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann will be indicted on a new murder charge this week, sources tell CBS New York.  Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said a court proceeding in the Gilgo Beach case was scheduled for Thursday.  “Obviously this is an ongoing investigation,” said …

A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter in the 2013 death of his girlfriend. Richard Schmitz, 55, took a plea deal in January, one day before he was due to go on trial for the death of Meshell Will, 38, whose badly decomposed …

Investigators identified a 9-year-old girl’s killer more than 50 years after she was abducted less than a block from her Georgia home, officials said Monday.  Debbie Lynn Randall, a third-grade student, vanished on Jan. 13, 1972, Cobb County District Attorney Flynn Broady said. She had been on her way home …

Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting at a street party in Muncie, Indiana, that left one person dead and 17 others wounded. John L. Vance, 36, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon and preliminarily charged with “several felonies,” a spokesperson for the city of Muncie said in a …

An Ohio man accused of fatally shooting his three young sons as his daughter fled screaming admitted to planning the killings and lined them up before executing them with a rifle, prosecutors said Friday. Chad Doerman, 32, who is also accused of wounding the boys’ mother at the family’s home, …

A woman who received a desperate text from her husband indicating he had been taken hostage said Tuesday that she called 911 but that police did not respond until about an hour later, by which time he had been shot and killed. On its online police blotter, the Colorado Springs …

One person was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting near a South Carolina nightclub on Memorial Day, authorities said. No arrests have been made in Monday night’s shooting in the Hollywood area of Charleston County, the county sheriff’s office said Tuesday. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report …