About 10,000 au pairs to get paid in class-action settlement

DENVER (AP) — About 10,000 live-in childcare workers from around the world will share in a class-action settlement in a case that challenged whether they should be treated as employees entitled to minimum wage or members of the family learning about the United States while helping out at home. U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello gave... Read More

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July 19, 2019

State court suit over ‘no-call’ can proceed against NFL

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge ruled Thursday that a damage lawsuit can continue against the NFL over the playoff “no-call” that helped the Los Angeles Rams beat the New Orleans Saints and advance to the Super Bowl. State Civil District Court Judge Nicole Sheppard also ruled that attorney Antonio “Tony” LeMon can request... Read More

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NFL

July 19, 2019

Woman charged in Michigan soldier’s death guilty of murder

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — The wife of a U.S. Army sergeant from Michigan who plotted to kill her husband has been found guilty of murder. Kemia Hassel was convicted Thursday by a Berrien County jury in the death of Sgt. Tyrone Hassel III. The 23-year-old Hassel was fatally shot in an ambush on New... Read More

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July 19, 2019

Ex-Illinois student’s life spared in killing of scholar

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A former University of Illinois doctoral student was spared the death penalty Thursday and sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and killing a 26-year-old scholar from China. Her parents, disappointed he was not sentenced to death, publicly begged for the killer to reveal where her remains are so they can... Read More

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Brendt Christensen

July 19, 2019

Police overseers fire 4 officers in McDonald-related case

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Board on Thursday fired four police officers for allegedly covering up a white officer’s 2014 fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald. The nine-member board found the officers exaggerated the threat posed by the 17-year-old McDonald to justify his shooting by Jason Van Dyke and voted unanimously for the... Read More

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Jason Van Dyke, Laquan McDonald

July 19, 2019

Men face sentencing on riot charge in Virginia rally case

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Three members of a white supremacist group face sentencing on a federal riot charge in connection with a white nationalist rally in Virginia and political rallies in California. The men are members of the Rise Above Movement, a militant group known for members who train in mixed martial arts street-fighting techniques.... Read More

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Rise Above Movement

July 19, 2019

Judge weighs new Motel 6 settlement in immigration lawsuit

PHOENIX (AP) — A revised settlement for Motel 6 guests who say the national chain invaded their privacy by giving their information to immigration authorities is returning to court for a judge’s review. A federal judge is to decide Friday on the proposal increasing to $10 million the total amount available for claims. Any remainder... Read More

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Immigration, Motel 6

July 19, 2019

Ex-NSA contractor to be sentenced in stolen documents case

BALTIMORE (AP) — A former National Security Agency contractor awaits sentencing in Baltimore’s federal court for storing two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home. Harold Martin’s plea agreement calls for a nine-year prison sentence, but U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett isn’t bound by the deal’s terms when he sentences Martin on Friday.... Read More

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Harold Martin

July 19, 2019

Ex-Alabama officer gets prison for assaulting detained man

TALLASSEE, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama police officer has been sentenced to prison for slamming a compliant handcuffed man into the ground and then slamming the man’s head into his patrol car. News outlets report 27-year-old Michael Brandon Smirnoff was sentenced Thursday to 22 months in prison. Smirnoff pleaded guilty in April to federal... Read More

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Michael Brandon Smirnoff

July 18, 2019

R. Kelly doesn’t have freedom, money for this legal battle

CHICAGO (AP) — The difference between R. Kelly’s life in 2002 when he was last charged with child sex-related crimes and his arrest last week on even more serious charges was on full display when the R&B singer turned and slowly walked out of court. Each step Tuesday was cut shorter than normal by the... Read More

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R. Kelly

July 18, 2019

Parkland suspect allowed to skip hearings ahead of trial

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Parkland school shooting defendant Nikolas Cruz will be allowed to skip many future court hearings as his planned trial draws closer in the 2018 massacre that left 17 people dead, a judge ruled Wednesday. Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer granted the hearing waiver request by lawyers for Cruz, who faces... Read More

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Nikolas Cruz

July 18, 2019

Former Auburn assistant basketball coach avoids prison

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Auburn University assistant basketball coach and NBA star Chuck Person’s lifelong generosity may have driven him to the poorhouse, but it saved him from the jailhouse Wednesday when a judge sentenced him in a bribery scandal that touched some of the biggest college basketball programs. U.S. District Judge Loretta A.... Read More

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Chuck Person

July 18, 2019

Jury convicts boy who pointed gun at teacher, pulled trigger

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A 13-year-old eastern Iowa student has been found guilty on three charges after he pointed a gun at a teacher and pulled the trigger, but the jury declined to convict him of attempted murder. The Quad-City Times reports jurors in Davenport convicted the boy Wednesday of carrying weapons on school grounds,... Read More

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July 18, 2019

Indiana attorney general’s lawyers downplay groping claims

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Lawyers for Indiana’s attorney general are downplaying allegations he drunkenly groped four women during a party, arguing that the claims against him represent common behavior even if they are true. They made their arguments in court documents submitted on behalf of Republican state Attorney General Curtis Hill, calling for a judge to... Read More

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Curtis Hill

About 10,000 au pairs to get paid in class-action settlement

State court suit over ‘no-call’ can proceed against NFL

Woman charged in Michigan soldier’s death guilty of murder

Ex-Illinois student’s life spared in killing of scholar

Police overseers fire 4 officers in McDonald-related case

Men face sentencing on riot charge in Virginia rally case

Judge weighs new Motel 6 settlement in immigration lawsuit

Ex-NSA contractor to be sentenced in stolen documents case

Ex-Alabama officer gets prison for assaulting detained man

R. Kelly doesn’t have freedom, money for this legal battle

Parkland suspect allowed to skip hearings ahead of trial

Former Auburn assistant basketball coach avoids prison

Jury convicts boy who pointed gun at teacher, pulled trigger

Indiana attorney general’s lawyers downplay groping claims

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