A former south Texas prosecutor has been indicted on a felony charge of misusing money from seized property to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses to himself and his staff, state prosecutors announced Wednesday.

The mother of the man who gunned down eight colleagues at a beer distributor in Connecticut this month says her son was a “gentle spirit” who had reached his limit after being racially harassed at work.

Accused “Craigslist killer” Philip Markoff wrote his ex-fiancee’s name in what appeared to be blood on the wall of his jail cell before dying “at his own hand,” a Massachusetts prosecutor said Tuesday.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted of lying to federal authorities but jurors deadlocked on 23 other corruption counts. The government says it will retry the case.

A onetime medical student who was facing charges including first-degree murder in a killing tied to the Craigslist website died Sunday of an apparent suicide, police said.

Miami Heat basketball player Udonis Haslem was charged with possession of marijuana on Sunday after a traffic stop, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Authorities may have arrested the wrong person in a shooting that killed four people in Buffalo, New York, according to a local television station.

Hal Turner, an online radio “shock jock” and blogger, was convicted on Friday of threatening to kill three federal judges in Chicago, Illinois, in retaliation for a ruling they made that upheld handgun bans, government officials said.

A lack of screening of oil spill cleanup workers may have resulted in a convicted sex offender being charged with raping a co-worker. A CNN investigation into the incident reveals that basic background checks were not done on those hired to remove oil from the beaches in and around Pascagoula.

A federal court in California will rule Thursday on whether to keep a temporary stay in place in the case that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriages.