Authorities say a 2-year-old boy shot in the head by a stray bullet while playing outside at day care in Utah is in stable condition. Spanish Fork police believe the bullet came from a pellet or air gun shot from a field across the street west of the facility. Day care workers don't know what happened, but saw the young boy bleeding from the face and stumbling. At a nearby hospital, scans revealed a small-caliber bullet lodged in the child’s head. The incident occurred Monday in Spanish Fork, Utah, about 52 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Thousands of Americans each year turn to state-run programs that provide financial assistance to crime victims. The money helps to cover funeral expenses, physical and emotional therapy, lost wages, crime-scene cleanup and more. The Associated Press had interviewed people in Philadelphia for a story on gun violence and learned that many were denied aid because the state said they or their loved one contributed to their own victimization. The AP then asked all 50 states and the District of Columbia for data on who was denied aid, and why. The AP found in many of the states that provided racial data that Black victims were disproportionately denied help.

Black people are disproportionately denied aid from state programs that reimburse victims of violent crime. That’s according to an AP examination of data from 23 states that shows Black applicants were nearly twice as likely as white applicants to be denied aid in some states, including Indiana, Georgia and South Dakota. The denials add up to thousands of Black families missing out on millions of dollars in aid each year. Experts say the disparities are rooted in biases embedded in the design of victim compensation programs, among other factors. States are starting to address the problem as part of a wider reckoning with racism across the criminal justice system.

A federal magistrate judge says a Massachusetts Air National Guard member charged with leaking highly classified military documents will remain behind bars while he awaits trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Hennessy said Friday that releasing 21-year-old Jack Teixeira would pose a risk that he would attempt to flee the country or obstruct justice. The judge cited Teixeira’s “fascination with guns,” disturbing online statements and admonitions by Teixeira’s military superiors about his handling of sensitive information before his arrest. The judge said the case represented “a profound breach of the defendant’s word that he would protect information related to the security of the United States.”

A police officer has been arrested on charges that he lied about leaking confidential information to a leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group and obstructed an investigation after group members destroyed a Black Lives Matter banner in the nation's capital. Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond pleaded not guilty to obstruction of justice and other charges during his initial court appearance Friday. An indictment alleges that Lamond warned former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio that law enforcement had an arrest warrant for Tarrio related to the banner’s destruction. Tarrio was arrested in Washington two days before Proud Boys members joined a mob in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Hundreds of people packed a church for the funeral of a Chicago police officer who was off duty when she was fatally shot during an armed robbery spree by four teenagers charged in her death. Officer Aréanah Preston’s mother, Dionne Mhoon, told police officers, relatives and other mourners Wednesday at Trinity United Church of Christ that her daughter was a “kid full of life, dreams, big goals and wanted to make major changes.” Preston was fatally wounded early May 6 when she exchanged gunfire with a group of youths who approached her on the city’s South Side as she returned home from work, still wearing her police uniform.

Hundreds of people packed a church for the funeral of a Chicago police officer who was off duty when she was fatally shot during an armed robbery spree by four teenagers charged in her death. Officer Aréanah Preston’s mother, Dionne Mhoon, told police officers, relatives and other mourners Wednesday at Trinity United Church of Christ that her daughter was a “kid full of life, dreams, big goals and wanted to make major changes.” Preston was fatally wounded early May 6 when she exchanged gunfire with a group of youths who approached her on the city’s South Side as she returned home from work, still wearing her police uniform.

A northern Virginia man has been arraigned on charges involving baseball bat attacks on three women, including two staffers for Rep. Gerry Connolly. Forty-nine-year-old Xuan-Kha Tran Pham learned his charges by video hookup from the Fairfax County jail, where he was ordered held pending a hearing in July. Pham's father told The Washington Post that his son was diagnosed with schizophrenia but can't obtain treatment. Pham is accused of damaging the windshield of a woman in Fairfax after asking if she was white. Police say he showed up at Connolly's district office shortly thereafter and hit two women with the bat.

A special prosecutor has ended his four-year investigation into possible FBI misconduct in its probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The report Monday from special counsel John Durham offers withering criticism of the bureau but a meager court record that fell far short of the former president’s prediction he would uncover the “crime of the century.” It represents the long-awaited culmination of an investigation that Trump and allies had claimed would expose massive wrongdoing by law enforcement and intelligence officials. Instead, Durham’s investigation delivered underwhelming results, with prosecutors securing a guilty plea from a little-known FBI employee but losing the only two criminal cases they took to trial.

German police have detained a suspect in connection with an explosion at a residential building that injured dozens of first responders. Police said two officers and three firefighters received life-threatening injuries in Thursday's blast at a high-rise building in the town of Ratingen. They said four firefighters were seriously injured and 22 police officers suffered minor injuries. The body of a woman was recovered, but how she died wasn't immediately known. Firefighters and police were initially called to the building about a possible person in distress. Police say they are investigating what caused the blast. It happened shortly after the man suspect opened an apartment door. Heavily-armed officers later detained a 57-year-old German man.