Man who killed his family as a teen is ordered to adult jail

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man who killed five family members as a teenager previously was set to walk free next week on his 21st birthday, but a judge Thursday ordered him moved from a treatment center for minors into an adult jail while his juvenile sentence faces another review. The decision by... Read More

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Nehemiah Griego

March 16, 2018

Innocence certificates withheld for 5 exonerated men

CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County, Illinois, judge has refused to grant innocence certificates to five men allegedly framed with drug charges by a Chicago police sergeant. Judge LeRoy K. Martin Jr. ruled Thursday that because the men only received probation as a result of former Sgt. Ronald Watts’ actions, they don’t qualify for the... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

March 16, 2018

Man convicted of killing carnival boss executed in Alabama

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his former boss at a traveling carnival nearly two decades ago was executed Thursday night after dropping his appeals and asking to be put to death. Michael Wayne Eggers, 50, died at 7:29 p.m. CDT after receiving a lethal injection at a southwest Alabama prison. He... Read More

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Michael Wayne Eggers

March 16, 2018

Grand jury indicts 4 in death of university frat pledge

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A grand jury indicted four people Thursday in the death of a Louisiana State University student whose blood-alcohol content was more than six times the legal limit for driving after fraternity members allegedly subjected him to a hazing ritual. The state grand jury issued the indictments six months after 18-year-old... Read More

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LSU

March 16, 2018

Police: ‘Grandma Stinker’ received marijuana shipments from son

AURORA, IN (FOX19) – A 58-year-old woman was arrested on several drug charges after an investigation in Aurora. According to police, the investigation began when they received a call from a citizen stating Debra Ferguson was receiving mail shipments of marijuana on a regular basis from her son, Eric Anderson, who lives in Yuba County,... Read More

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Debra Lee Ferguson

March 16, 2018

Ranchers sue utility over alleged role in California fire

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — Ranchers who lost cattle and property during California’s largest-ever wildfire sued a utility on Thursday for allegedly failing to maintain aging equipment and manage vegetation in areas where the blaze was sparked. The lawsuits filed in Ventura County claim Southern California Edison didn’t mitigate the significant risk of wildfires stemming from... Read More

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California

March 16, 2018

2 women offer differing views of crisis pregnancy centers

Accounts from two women who visited crisis pregnancy centers , with differing views of the experience: LAUREN GRAY Lauren Gray became pregnant when she was in college in western North Carolina. Estranged from her mother, somewhat ashamed and very confused, “I did not know where to turn,” she said. With the nearest Planned Parenthood clinic... Read More

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Abortion

March 16, 2018

Man gets 30 years for road rage killing of ex-NFL player

GRETNA, La. (AP) — The man convicted of manslaughter in the 2016 road rage shooting death of former NFL running back Joe McKnight was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday. Ronald Gasser, 56, had faced up to 40 years in prison. Defense lawyers argued that Gasser fired in self-defense when McKnight walked up to... Read More

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Joe McKnight

March 16, 2018

Doctors to examine US man sought by Poland in Nazi case

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — American authorities are moving ahead with Poland’s request to extradite a 99-year-old Minnesota man to be tried on allegations he was involved in a World War II massacre of civilians, Polish prosecutors said Thursday. Polish authorities issued an arrest warrant last year after opening a case following a series of 2013... Read More

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Michael Karkoc

March 16, 2018

Georgia executes man known as the ‘stocking strangler’

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A man known as the “stocking strangler” was executed Thursday for the rape-slayings of three older women in attacks that terrorized a Georgia city four decades ago. Carlton Gary, 67, was put to death by injection of compounded pentobarbital, a barbiturate, at the state prison in Jackson. He was the first... Read More

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Carlton Gary

March 16, 2018

Abortion, free speech collide in Supreme Court dispute

GILROY, Calif. (AP) — Informed Choices is what its president describes as a “life-affirming” pregnancy center on the edge of downtown Gilroy in northern California. Even as it advertises “free pregnancy services” and promises in signs on its door and inside to discuss all options with pregnant women, Informed Choices exists to steer women away... Read More

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Abortion, Free Speech

March 15, 2018

Ex-Raiders CB Sean Smith gets 1 year in jail for assault

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say former Oakland Raiders cornerback Sean Smith has been sentenced to serve a year in jail after admitting he beat his sister’s boyfriend in July. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office says Smith pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony assault charge. He was also sentenced to five years of... Read More

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NFL, Sean Smith

March 15, 2018

Judge dismisses lawsuit of Muslim boy’s dad with prejudice

DALLAS (AP) — A judge has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit filed by the father of a Muslim boy arrested after taking a homemade clock to his Dallas-area school. The decision Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay of Dallas means that Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed’s lawsuit cannot be refiled again based on the same claims.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Race, Religion

Ahmed Mohamed

Man who killed his family as a teen is ordered to adult jail

Innocence certificates withheld for 5 exonerated men

Man convicted of killing carnival boss executed in Alabama

Grand jury indicts 4 in death of university frat pledge

Police: ‘Grandma Stinker’ received marijuana shipments from son

Ranchers sue utility over alleged role in California fire

2 women offer differing views of crisis pregnancy centers

Man gets 30 years for road rage killing of ex-NFL player

Doctors to examine US man sought by Poland in Nazi case

Georgia executes man known as the ‘stocking strangler’

Abortion, free speech collide in Supreme Court dispute

Tex McIver Trial Video Archive

Ex-Raiders CB Sean Smith gets 1 year in jail for assault

Judge dismisses lawsuit of Muslim boy’s dad with prejudice

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