Police in Hawaii are searching for a 36-year-old man who they say is wanted in connection with three killings this week. Authorities describe Jacob Baker as “armed and extremely dangerous.” Officials say they are using significant resources and personnel to find him. The men who died include two 69-year-olds and one 79-year-old. They were found dead Monday and Tuesday in the Puna area on the island of Hawaii. Authorities have not identified a motive. Baker was recently accused of threatening and harassing behavior by two women whose request for restraining orders against him were denied by a judge. Baker remained at large Thursday.

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him. By a 5-4 vote Thursday, the justices sided with Terry Pitchford, who was sentenced to death for his role in the killing of a grocery store owner in northern Mississippi. There were 11 white jurors and one Black juror in a trial with similarities to that of another Black man on Mississippi’s death row, whose conviction the high court overturned seven years ago. If Pitchford's conviction is overturned, the state could seek to retry him. Pitchford's lawyer says he's “entitled to a fair trial.”

Matthew Perry's personal assistant has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for his role in the drug death of the “Friends” star. Sixty-year-old Kenneth Iwamasa received the sentence in a Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday. Iwamasa The assistant was at Perry’s side through the final days of his life in 2023. He injected Perry with the fatal dose of ketamine and found him dead in his Jacuzzi. He would eventually become prosecutors’ most important informant. Iwamasa was the last person sentenced of five who pleaded guilty in connection with Perry's death at age 54.

An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline at him and lighting a match has been put to the death in the first of three executions planned this week around the U.S. Corrections officials say 63-year-old Leroy McGill received a lethal injection Wednesday for the 2002 killing of Charles Perez. Authorities say Perez and his girlfriend accused McGill of stealing a gun from a north Phoenix apartment before they were attacked. The girlfriend survived the attack, but Perez died in a hospital. Thirteen people have been executed to date this year in the U.S. Tennessee and Florida are each scheduled to carry out an execution Thursday.

Jonathan Andic, the son of Mango's billionaire founder, has posted bail following his arrest in connection with the death of his billionaire father. Isak Andic died in December 2024 after falling from a cliff while hiking near Barcelona. Jonathan, 45, was the only witness. Initially closed, the investigation was reopened in March 2025 and in October police confirmed it was being treated as a possible homicide. Jonathan, who is vice chairman at Mango, appeared in court in Martorell. Mango, founded in 1984, has grown into a major global retailer.