Nome, Alaska sued by woman who says rape wasn’t investigated

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A former police dispatcher in a small Alaska town filed a lawsuit Thursday, alleging her colleagues in the Nome Police Department didn’t investigate after she filed a rape report. Clarice Hardy’s lawsuit claims the inaction was “part of the city’s systemic and ongoing failure to protect Alaska Native woman from sexual... Read More

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Clarice Hardy

February 21, 2020

Appeals court keeps block on Mississippi 6-week abortion ban

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court is keeping a block on a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions as early as about six weeks — a stage when many women may not even know they are pregnant. A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the decision Thursday, finding... Read More

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Abortion

February 21, 2020

Appeals court approves of $6.7M award to graffiti artists

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York gave its approval Thursday to a $6.7 million award for nearly two dozen graffiti artists whose spray paintings at a once-famous site that attracted thousands of spectators were destroyed to make room for high-rise luxury residences. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

February 21, 2020

Tennessee man gets electric chair for killing fellow inmate

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A convicted murderer was put to death in Tennessee’s electric chair Thursday, becoming the state’s fifth prisoner over 16 months to choose electrocution over the state’s preferred method of lethal injection. Nicholas Sutton, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Asked if he... Read More

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Nicholas Sutton

February 21, 2020

California sues Trump administration to block water rules

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California sued the Trump administration on Thursday to block new rules that would let farmers take more water from the state’s largest river systems, arguing it would push endangered populations of delta smelt, chinook salmon and steelhead trout to extinction. The federal rules govern how much water can be pumped out... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

February 21, 2020

American women seek more than $66M in damages from US Soccer

Players on the U.S. women’s national team are seeking more than $66 million in damages as part of their gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. The damages were included in slew of papers filed Thursday night in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ahead of a trial scheduled to start May 5. Among... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Orientation, Sports

February 21, 2020

Jurors at Weinstein rape trial continue to focus on Sciorra

NEW YORK (AP) — The name that keeps coming up during deliberations at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial — Annabella Sciorra — will be front and center again on Friday when jurors are expected to hear a reading of a large chunk of her testimony. Before concluding its third day of deliberations on Thursday, the Manhattan... Read More

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Harvey Weinstein

February 21, 2020

Five GOP-led states seek to block Equal Rights Amendment

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Five Republican-led states are seeking to block an effort by three Democratic-led states to see the Equal Rights Amendment is adopted into the U.S. Constitution. The five states — Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska and South Dakota — filed a motion on Thursday to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Virginia, Nevada... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

February 20, 2020

Another Catholic diocese seeks bankruptcy after abuse deals

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, six months after disclosing it had paid millions of dollars to people sexually abused as children by its clerics. The diocese joins at least 20 others across the United States in seeking protection from creditors through the federal bankruptcy system,... Read More

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Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse

February 20, 2020

Plaintiffs’ attorneys take aim at Boy Scouts’ `dark history’

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Like millions of other Americans in the 1950s and ’60s, Duane Ruth-Heffelbower spent his formative years learning to tie knots, build campfires and pitch tents with the Boy Scouts, whose wholesome, God-fearing reputation was burnished by Normal Rockwell’s magazine-cover paintings of fresh-faced Scouts, brave, courteous and cheerful. Though he’s no... Read More

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The Boy Scouts of America

February 20, 2020

Sandusky prosecutor and former Penn State lawyer disciplined

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A lawyer who led the child molestation investigation and prosecution of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky lost his law license for a year Wednesday over his handling of a grand jury witness in the case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled. The justices issued a 5-1 decision to suspend... Read More

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Frank Fina, Jerry Sandusky

February 20, 2020

Jurors promised trial of their lives in Durst murder case

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge made a sales pitch of sorts Wednesday to a panel of would-be jurors facing the prospect of serving five months in the murder trial of Robert Durst: this will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Where some judges appeal to a sense of public duty and explain how the... Read More

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Robert Durst

February 20, 2020

Blagojevich praises, endorses Trump as justice reformer

CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich gushed about Donald Trump a day after the Republican president set him free from a federal prison, delivering a 20-minute monologue Wednesday outside his Chicago home that sounded like an extended campaign commercial. Standing before a crowd of more than 100 reporters and well-wishers at the... Read More

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Rod Blagojevich

February 20, 2020

NFL free agent Greg Robinson jailed in Texas on pot charge

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — NFL offensive tackle Greg Robinson remained in a West Texas jail without bond Wednesday after federal agents said they found 157 pounds (71.21 kilograms) of marijuana in a rented vehicle in which he and two other people were riding. Robinson, 27, of Thibodeaux, Louisiana, and Jaquan Tyreke Bray, 26, of... Read More

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Greg Robinson, NFL

Nome, Alaska sued by woman who says rape wasn’t investigated

Appeals court keeps block on Mississippi 6-week abortion ban

Appeals court approves of $6.7M award to graffiti artists

Tennessee man gets electric chair for killing fellow inmate

California sues Trump administration to block water rules

American women seek more than $66M in damages from US Soccer

Jurors at Weinstein rape trial continue to focus on Sciorra

Five GOP-led states seek to block Equal Rights Amendment

Another Catholic diocese seeks bankruptcy after abuse deals

Plaintiffs’ attorneys take aim at Boy Scouts’ `dark history’

Sandusky prosecutor and former Penn State lawyer disciplined

Jurors promised trial of their lives in Durst murder case

Blagojevich praises, endorses Trump as justice reformer

NFL free agent Greg Robinson jailed in Texas on pot charge

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