Kroenke, NFL appeal St. Louis lawsuit case to Supreme Court

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The NFL, Los Angeles Rams and team owner Stan Kroenke are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider why a lawsuit over the team’s departure from St. Louis should be settled in arbitration, not open court. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the case should be heard in a... Read More

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NFL

September 6, 2019

Girlfriend of missing mom’s husband faces new charge

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — The girlfriend of the estranged husband of a missing Connecticut mother of five has turned herself in to police to face a new charge. Michelle Troconis and her lawyer declined to comment Thursday as they went into the Bridgeport state police barracks. Officials say she was charged with a second count... Read More

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Michelle Troconis

September 6, 2019

Texas hoping to revive law on burial of fetal remains

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Texas attorneys asked a federal appeals court Thursday to revive the state’s requirement that fetal remains from abortions and miscarriages at health care facilities be buried or cremated. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans gave no indication when it would rule following the... Read More

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fetal remains

September 6, 2019

Women facing restrictions seek abortions out of state

ATLANTA (AP) — At a routine ultrasound when she was five months pregnant, Hevan Lunsford began to panic when the technician took longer than normal, then told her she would need to see a specialist. Lunsford, a nurse in Alabama, knew it was serious and begged for an appointment the next day. That’s when the... Read More

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Abortion

September 6, 2019

Attorney: Alleged newspaper gunman ‘evil as all get-out’

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A lawyer said Thursday that “evil as all get-out” would be a better way of describing the man accused of fatally shooting five people at a Maryland newspaper, rather than calling him “crazy.” Brennan McCarthy, who represented a woman harassed by Jarrod Ramos years ago, testified at a pretrial hearing as... Read More

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Jarrod Ramos

September 6, 2019

Sacramento to pay $2.4M to young sons of man shot by police

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The city of Sacramento will pay $2.4 million to the two sons of an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by police last year, according to court documents. A quarter of the money, plus nearly $14,000 in expenses, will go to attorneys, and the rest into a trust for the... Read More

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Stephon Clark

September 6, 2019

Boat owners seek to head off lawsuits after 34 die in fire

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owners of the dive boat where 34 people perished in a fire off Southern California filed a lawsuit Thursday to head off potentially costly litigation, a move condemned by some observers as disrespectful to the families of the dead. Truth Aquatics Inc., which owned the Conception, filed the action in... Read More

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the Conception

September 6, 2019

Man throws urine on prosecutor during sentencing hearing

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Police say a 28-year-old man awaiting sentencing on an attempted murder charge tossed urine on the prosecutor inside a Florida courtroom. The attack happened Wednesday in Broward Circuit Judge Susan Alspector’s courtroom. Albert Narvaez is now also charged with battery for his attack on Broward Assistant State Attorney Andrew Newman.... Read More

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September 6, 2019

Jury to be selected for ex-cop who killed unarmed black man

DALLAS (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of a white former Dallas police officer charged with killing an unarmed black man in his own apartment. Amber Guyger faces a murder charge in the slaying of Botham Jean. Guyger told authorities she mistakenly entered Jean’s apartment thinking it was her own... Read More

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Amber Guyger

September 6, 2019

California warehouse fire trial limps on after hung jury

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An emotionally taxing criminal case over the deaths of 36 people trapped in a fire inside a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse nearly three years ago will continue after a jury acquitted one defendant and deadlocked on the other. Jurors deliberated over a two-week period before they acquitted Max Harris on... Read More

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Ghost Ship

September 6, 2019

As feds loom, states hit Facebook, Google with new probes

NEW YORK (AP) — Two bipartisan groups of state attorneys general are launching separate antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google, adding to regulatory scrutiny of two of the world’s largest and most ubiquitous tech companies. New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, confirmed the Facebook investigation in a news release Friday, saying the probe... Read More

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Facebook

September 5, 2019

Smollett’s attorneys argue city lawsuit should be tossed

CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett’s attorneys have filed a motion arguing that the actor should not have to pay Chicago $130,000 for a police investigation into what he claimed was a racist and homophobic attack, because he couldn’t have known how much time and money the department would spend looking into his allegations. The motion,... Read More

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Jussie Smollett

September 5, 2019

Firing of doctor sets off fight over assisted suicide law

DENVER (AP) — After watching his mother die slowly when he stopped her medication, Neil Mahoney knew he wanted the option of ending his own life peacefully when a doctor told him in July that he had months to live after being diagnosed with cancer. A physician was willing to help him do that under... Read More

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Neil Mahoney

September 5, 2019

Charges against ex-Rep. Aaron Schock officially dismissed

CHICAGO (AP) — Corruption charges against former Rep. Aaron Schock have been officially dismissed six months after prosecutors’ surprise announcement they’d struck a deferred prosecution deal with the defense. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly ordered the formal dismissal of charges against Schock on Wednesday. The Illinois Republican resigned from Congress in 2015 amid scrutiny of... Read More

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Aaron Schock

Kroenke, NFL appeal St. Louis lawsuit case to Supreme Court

Girlfriend of missing mom’s husband faces new charge

Texas hoping to revive law on burial of fetal remains

Women facing restrictions seek abortions out of state

Attorney: Alleged newspaper gunman ‘evil as all get-out’

Sacramento to pay $2.4M to young sons of man shot by police

Boat owners seek to head off lawsuits after 34 die in fire

Man throws urine on prosecutor during sentencing hearing

Jury to be selected for ex-cop who killed unarmed black man

California warehouse fire trial limps on after hung jury

As feds loom, states hit Facebook, Google with new probes

Smollett’s attorneys argue city lawsuit should be tossed

Firing of doctor sets off fight over assisted suicide law

Charges against ex-Rep. Aaron Schock officially dismissed

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