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Michigan courthouse will keep paintings with nude figures

PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) — Officials in a Michigan county have reversed course and won’t cover up courthouse paintings that have nude figures and bare-breasted women. WOOD-TV says Van Buren County commissioners heard from people on both sides Tuesday and decided to leave the paintings alone. One painting in a stairwell shows a bare-breasted woman... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

August 28, 2019

Teen told uncle ‘please don’t hurt us’ before Texas shooting

HOUSTON (AP) — A young woman told jurors Tuesday that she begged her uncle “please don’t hurt us” and then began to pray before he fatally shot her parents and four siblings and shot her in the head in their suburban Houston home. Cassidy Stay testified at the trial of Ronald Lee Haskell, who is... Read More

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Ronald Lee Haskell

August 28, 2019

Defendant in major opioid case says he was helping people

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have called Aaron Shamo the kingpin of a multimillion-dollar drug ring that shipped hundreds of thousands of potentially deadly opioid pills across the country from a suburban Utah basement. Shamo took the witness stand Tuesday at his trial and downplayed his role in the operation that authorities have blamed... Read More

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Aaron Shamo, Opioids

August 28, 2019

‘Coward’: Epstein accusers pour out their anger in court

NEW YORK (AP) — One by one, 16 women who say they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein poured out their anger Tuesday, lashing out at him as a coward and a manipulator, after a judge gave them the day in court they were denied when he killed himself behind bars. “The fact I will... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

Jeffrey Epstein

August 28, 2019

Border Patrol agent pleads guilty to hitting migrant in face

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Border Patrol agent in California has pleaded guilty to hitting a migrant in the face and has agreed to resign. The San Diego Union-Tribune says Jason McGilvray entered the plea Thursday in San Diego federal court to a misdemeanor charge of deprivation of rights under the color of law. He... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Jason McGilvray

August 28, 2019

OxyContin maker, government attorneys in settlement talks

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State attorneys general and lawyers representing local governments said Tuesday they are in active settlement talks with Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin that is facing billions of dollars in potential liability for its role in the nation’s opioid crisis. Purdue has been cast by attorneys and addiction... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Opioids

August 28, 2019

Deutsche Bank has tax returns sought in Congressional probe

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s longtime bank revealed Tuesday that it has tax records Congress is seeking in its investigation of the president’s finances. Deutsche Bank said in court papers it has tax returns responsive to a subpoena sent this year, in which Congress asked the bank for a host of documents related... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, News

Deutsche Bank

August 27, 2019

Wrong-way driver gets 30 years to life for killing 5 teens

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A driver convicted of killing five teenagers in a wrong-way crash nearly three years ago in Vermont was sentenced Monday to 30 years to life in prison. Steven Bourgoin was convicted of five counts of second-degree murder in May. Bourgoin, 38, has acknowledged that he crashed into the car carrying the... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Steven Bourgoin

August 27, 2019

Patriots’ Chung focuses upon football, not cocaine charge

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Having played for the New England Patriots for nine of his 10 NFL seasons, Patrick Chung is well-versed in how his team addresses potential controversies. It doesn’t. So it came as no surprise when Chung offered no information about a charge of cocaine possession brought against him in New Hampshire while... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News, Sports

Patrick Chung

August 27, 2019

North Carolina high court hears case on race, death penalty

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court began weighing a claim Monday by six inmates on death row who say they are there because of racial discrimination in jury selection — and who argue they are still entitled to protections under a law that was taken off the books. The state Supreme Court began... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News, Race

August 27, 2019

Arpaio makes comeback bid for sheriff’s post he lost in 2016

PHOENIX (AP) — Joe Arpaio, the Arizona lawman known for leading immigration crackdowns, jailing inmates in tents and receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump, is running for his former job as the sheriff of metro Phoenix after getting trounced in 2016 by a little-known challenger. Arpaio, who also was crushed in a 2018 bid... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Joe Arpaio

August 27, 2019

Judge weighs defamation claim against Roy Moore

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawyers squared off in state court Monday on whether Roy Moore made defamatory statements during the 2017 U.S. Senate race against a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct. Judge John E. Rochester held a hearing on Moore’s request for summary judgment in the defamation lawsuit against him. Leigh Corfman said... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

Roy Moore

August 27, 2019

Maryland pet stores sue to block state ban on dog, cat sales

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Pet stores are suing to block a Maryland law that will bar them from selling commercially bred dogs and cats, a measure billed as a check against unlicensed and substandard “puppy mills.” The stores’ federal lawsuit, filed Friday, challenges a ban set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2020. Maryland... Read More

Animals, Criminal Justice News, News

August 27, 2019

Florida nursing home employees charged in patient deaths

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four employees of a Florida nursing home where 12 people died in sweltering heat after a hurricane cut power were charged Monday, at least three of them with aggravated manslaughter, their attorneys said. Nursing home patients at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, ranging in age from 57 to 99,... Read More

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Florida nursing home

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Michigan courthouse will keep paintings with nude figures

Teen told uncle ‘please don’t hurt us’ before Texas shooting

Defendant in major opioid case says he was helping people

‘Coward’: Epstein accusers pour out their anger in court

Border Patrol agent pleads guilty to hitting migrant in face

OxyContin maker, government attorneys in settlement talks

Deutsche Bank has tax returns sought in Congressional probe

Wrong-way driver gets 30 years to life for killing 5 teens

Patriots’ Chung focuses upon football, not cocaine charge

North Carolina high court hears case on race, death penalty

Arpaio makes comeback bid for sheriff’s post he lost in 2016

Judge weighs defamation claim against Roy Moore

Maryland pet stores sue to block state ban on dog, cat sales

Florida nursing home employees charged in patient deaths

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