Jury selection in Weinstein case could prove to be drawn-out

NEW YORK (AP) — On Sunday, Harvey Weinstein was a punchline at the Golden Globes. On Monday, he was hit with new sex-crimes charges in Los Angeles. And on Tuesday, he and his lawyers walked into court in New York to begin picking the jury that will decide the fate of the man widely seen... Read More

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Harvey Weinstein

January 8, 2020

GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter resigns after corruption conviction

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter submitted his resignation Tuesday, one month after pleading guilty to a corruption charge, leaving vacant one of the GOP’s few remaining House seats in heavily Democratic California. Hunter’s departure effective Jan. 13 ends his family’s political dynasty in which he and his father, Duncan L.... Read More

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Duncan Hunter

January 8, 2020

Trump gets woman’s suit delayed until NY top court weighs in

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump got a reprieve Tuesday in a former “Apprentice” contestant’s lawsuit over his response to her sexual assault allegations, when appeals judges gave him permission to appeal to New York’s highest court and put proceedings on hold in the meantime. Trump’s lawyers have been trying to get Summer Zervos’... Read More

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Summer Zervos

January 8, 2020

Lawsuit seeks to ease adoption of Equal Rights Amendment

BOSTON (AP) — Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment have filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts aimed at clearing a legal path for adoption of the long-delayed constitutional amendment. Backers say they’re wading into the debate over the amendment — which dates to the early 1970s — because Virginia is poised to become the decisive... Read More

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Equal Rights Amendment

January 8, 2020

Mexico former top cop in NY plea talks over drug bribe case

NEW YORK (AP) — Mexican former top security official Genaro García Luna is in talks on a possible plea agreement with federal prosecutors in New York, where he is charged with accepting millions in drug-money bribes from the notorious Sinaloa cartel of convicted kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. A court document filed Monday says lawyers... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Genaro Garcia Luna

January 8, 2020

Police: Gunman, 93, mad about apartment damage wounds worker

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 93-year-old gunman upset about water damage in his Las Vegas apartment wounded a maintenance manager in an office before being arrested, police said as they released video of the attack. An officer fired through a glass door Jan. 2 at the gunman as he stood over the wounded maintenance manager,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Robert Thomas

January 8, 2020

Homeless women who took over California home gain support

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Some California lawmakers said they support a group of homeless women who have been illegally living in a vacant three-bedroom house since November, partly to protest real estate speculators who drive up housing costs in the pricey San Francisco Bay Area. Moms 4 Housing, a collective recently formed to support the... Read More

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Dominique Walker

January 8, 2020

Hearing set for Michigan man in grisly slaying, mutilation

BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A mid-Michigan man was due in court Wednesday in the slaying and mutilation of a man he met online. A probable cause hearing was scheduled in 66th District Court in Corunna for Mark Latunski, 50. Latunski was arraigned Dec. 30 on open murder and disinterment and mutilation of a body... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Karl Bacon, Pam Bacon

January 8, 2020

Hearing to be held on condemned man’s request for DNA test

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A judge plans to hear legal arguments Wednesday on whether to order DNA testing on evidence from a 1987 killing for which a death row inmate in Georgia is scheduled to be executed next week. Jimmy Fletcher Meders, 58, is facing execution by lethal injection Jan. 16 for the killing of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

Jimmy Fletcher Meders

January 8, 2020

Gunman in `Fast and Furious’ border killing to be sentenced

PHOENIX (AP) — The man convicted of shooting a Border Patrol agent in a case that exposed a botched federal gun program known as “Fast and Furious” is scheduled to be sentenced in Tucson on Wednesday. Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes is one of seven defendants who were charged in the 2010 slaying of Brian Terry. Osorio-Arellanes was... Read More

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Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes

January 8, 2020

Ex-police chief accused of lying about hours pleads guilty

DUNKERTON, Iowa (AP) — A former police chief of a small eastern Iowa town has pleaded guilty to charges that she collected pay for hours she didn’t work. Black Hawk County District Court records say Katherine Krieger, 25, entered the pleas Monday to charges of theft and felonious misconduct in office. Both carry sentences of... Read More

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Katherine Krieger

January 8, 2020

Man who claimed to be missing boy expected to enter plea

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man who claimed to be a child who disappeared at age 6 is expected to make a plea Wednesday to federal charges as part of an agreement with prosecutors. A court filing this week by Kyle Healey, an assistant U.S. attorney, showed that a plea agreement has been reached in... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

January 8, 2020

Husband to appear on murder charges in missing mother case

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of a missing mother of five, faces arraignment Wednesday on charges that he killed her amid contentious divorce and child custody proceedings. Dulos is charged with murder and kidnapping in the apparent death of Jennifer Dulos of New Canaan, who has not been seen since she... Read More

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Fotis Dulos

January 7, 2020

Mother pleads no contest to helping son in body parts case

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A mother accused of helping her son move the dismembered remains of a woman pleaded no contest Monday before a trial in western Michigan. Barbara Chance faces up to a year in jail, Kent County Judge Paul Denenfeld said. Chance’s son, Jared Chance, was convicted in September of killing and... Read More

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Barbara Chance, Jared Chance

Jury selection in Weinstein case could prove to be drawn-out

GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter resigns after corruption conviction

Trump gets woman’s suit delayed until NY top court weighs in

Lawsuit seeks to ease adoption of Equal Rights Amendment

Mexico former top cop in NY plea talks over drug bribe case

Police: Gunman, 93, mad about apartment damage wounds worker

Homeless women who took over California home gain support

Hearing set for Michigan man in grisly slaying, mutilation

Hearing to be held on condemned man’s request for DNA test

Gunman in `Fast and Furious’ border killing to be sentenced

Ex-police chief accused of lying about hours pleads guilty

Man who claimed to be missing boy expected to enter plea

Husband to appear on murder charges in missing mother case

Mother pleads no contest to helping son in body parts case

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