An Arizona grand jury has indicted a man in the fatal shooting of his 1-year-old daughter, and prosecutors say he carried out the crime with an AR-style rifle in front of the girl’s mother.

The indictment issued earlier this month charges Adam Joseph Montoya, 27, with two felony counts — second-degree murder and child abuse. Montoya has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The Navajo County Public Defender’s Office, which is representing Montoya, declined comment Monday.

The shooting took place Feb. 3 at a home...

An ex-sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth’s submitted a sworn statement to senators on Tuesday that accused Mr. Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, of being so “abusive” toward his second wife that she once hid in a closet from him and had a safe word to call for help if she needed to get away from him.

Depending on how online you are, you might have seen a claim related to JD Vance on the social media account of your favorite feminist or left-leaning activist: that the Republican vice-presidential nominee believes women should stay in marriages with men who abuse them. This week, the allegation got a boost from Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D), who told CNN hosts: “He suggests that women should stay in abusive relationships. Listen, a domestic abuser isn’t a man, he’s a monster.”

Claim: Forty percent of police officers have admitted to abusing their partners.

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It's true that two studies conducted in the early 1990s cited 40% as the percentage of police officers who admitted domestic violence occurs in their families. However ...

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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that bars anyone subject to a domestic-violence restraining order from possessing a gun. By a vote of 8-1, the court ruled that the law does not violate the Constitution’s Second Amendment, which protects the “right of the people to keep and bear Arms.” The ruling in United States v. Rahimi was the court’s first Second Amendment case since it threw out New York’s handgun-licensing scheme nearly two years ago. In that case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

In a 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a major gun rights case Friday that protective orders can bar people accused of domestic violence from owning firearms. Zackey Rahimi, a Texas man, unsuccessfully claimed it’s unconstitutional to restrict people under domestic violence protective orders from accessing firearms.

“Since the Founding, the Nation’s firearm laws have included regulations to stop individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms,” the court’s majority opinion read.

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that bans guns for those subject to domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs) in the first major test of the Second Amendment at the high court this term.

In an 8-1 opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the court's majority said, "[W]e conclude only this: An individual found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment." Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter.

PORTLAND (WGME) -- A sentencing date has been set for a New Hampshire father who killed his daughter. A jury found Adam Montgomery guilty Thursday of all the charges against him, including second-degree murder. In December 2019, he beat 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery to death in the backseat of his car, then hid her body for months. • Also read: New Hampshire father found guilty of killing Harmony Montgomery, disposing of body Her remains have never been found. Sentencing is scheduled for May 9 in Merrimack County Superior Court. Adam Montgomery...

A jury has found a New Hampshire man guilty in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery, who was first reported missing in 2021. Adam Montgomery, 34, was found guilty on all charges, including second-degree murder, witness tampering, and second-degree assault charges for a separate incident involving the child. Mr. Montgomery also pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse and falsifying physical evidence. The verdict follows a two-week trial that included emotional testimony about how Mr. Montgomery killed the young girl, then destroyed and disposed of her body, which...

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Adam Montgomery, the New Hampshire father accused of killing his daughter, 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, was found guilty of second-degree murder on Thursday. Montgomery was also found guilty of second-degree assault, falsifying physical evidence, abuse of a corpse, and witness tampering. Jurors deliberated for about seven hours after getting the case on Wednesday. They asked the judge one question Thursday about the legal definition of the word "recklessly." Montgomery was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read. He chose not to be in the courtroom for...