Florida has executed a man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer during a traffic stop.

A Georgia man whose teenage son is accused of killing two students and two teachers at a high school has been convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Colin Gray also was found guilty Tuesday of all other charges in the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta. Gray is one of a number of parents across the country who have been charged after their children were accused in fatal shootings. Prosecutors said Gray gave his son, Colt, access to a gun and ammunition “after receiving sufficient warning that Colt Gray would harm and endanger the bodily safety of another.”

The father of a Georgia school shooting suspect has been convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

Prosecutors say a Georgia father could have stopped his 14-year-old son from carrying out a school shooting, and they want jurors to convict him. On Monday, the trial enters its third week and jurors are preparing to deliberate. Prosecutor Patricia Brooks said Monday that the father saw warning signs and still gave his son a rifle. The defense says the real blame sits with the teen, and says no one could foresee the attack. The shooting killed two students and two teachers in 41 seconds. The boy faces dozens of charges. The father also faces murder and manslaughter counts.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard says 'a severe, decisive and regret-inducing punishment' coming over Khamenei's killing.

Indonesia has freed and deported an American man after 11 years in prison for killing his girlfriend’s mother, in a case that became known as the Bali “suitcase murder.” However, U.S. charges await him back home. On Tuesday, Indonesian officials said they deported Tommy Schaefer after finishing his 18-year sentence with time off for good behavior. Prosecutors say he and Heather Mack, nearly 19 at the time and a few weeks pregnant, wanted access to a trust fund. Authorities found the mother's body in a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi at a luxury resort in 2014. Schaefer has a court date Thursday in Chicago. It’s not clear whether he has an attorney.

The violence that followed the killing of a cartel leader in Mexico is fueling fears that the bloodshed could hurt tourism ahead of the FIFA World Cup later this year. Maria Dolores Aguirre’s corner store has lived off the tourism that flows into her cobblestoned town of Tapalpa in the mountains of Mexico’s state of Jalisco. Then the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord Sunday just a few kilometers from her home. The killing sparked a surge in violence and put the country on edge. Now Aguirre and others are worried that the clashes between the cartel and security forces will hurt their livelihoods.

Authorities say a man fatally stabbed four people in Washington state as sheriff's deputies were on their way to deliver him a domestic violence protection order. The suspect died after being shot by an arriving deputy. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office says deputies initially responded to reports Tuesday that a 32-year-old man was violating a no-contact order. They realized the protection order wasn't valid because it had not been served on him, and they headed to the scene to give him a copy. While they were en route, the sheriff's office says additional reports came in that the man was stabbing people.

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2026. There are 310 days left in the year.

Prosecutors portrayed  a Utah mother and children’s book author as a money-hungry killer Monday on the first day of a murder trial in her husband’s death. Her defense team urged jurors not to make judgments before hearing her side of the story. Kouri Richins faces a slew of felony charges for allegedly killing her husband with fentanyl in March 2022 at their home just outside the ski town of Park City. Prosecutors say she slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that he drank. Richins denies the allegations.