
Before he escaped with his jailer, the Alabama fugitive stood accused of killing a sweet, patriotic mom who never forgot birthdays
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When the family was sorting through her Rogersville, Alabama, home after her fatal 2015 stabbing, "half the stuff in her apartment had an American flag," Williams, 42, recounted. It seemed only fitting her tombstone should be adorned with fireworks erupting over the Stars and Stripes.
For years, July 4 was a painful reminder their matriarch was gone and the investigation into her murder laid cold. Then, in the summer of 2020, an Alabama inmate imprisoned for a string of violent crimes wrote authorities, asking to speak to a Lauderdale County investigator. When the officer arrived, Casey White confessed to killing Ridgeway, authorities said.

More than two weeks after the stunning US raid on Caracas that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro, the political confrontation over the future of Venezuela is rapidly coalescing around two leaders, both women, who represent different visions for their country: the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, who stands for continuity, and opposition leader María Corina Machado, who seeks the restoration of democracy.

President Trump says he can pull funding for sanctuary cities. Judges have repeatedly said otherwise
Trump’s threat is a broader version of one his administration has made many times already, attempting to cut funding to local governments it declared as “sanctuary jurisdictions,” but those efforts have been stopped repeatedly by judges.











