Suspect in shooting at North Carolina university indicted

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a 22-year-old man on murder and other charges in the shooting attack at a North Carolina university that left two students dead and four others wounded, a prosecutor’s office announced Tuesday. The Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement the indictments handed down Monday... Read More

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Trystan Andrew Terrell

May 8, 2019

Congressman’s ex-aide says she was fired for being pregnant

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former senior aide to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar has filed a lawsuit against the Texas Democrat that claims he wrongly fired her for being pregnant. Kristie Small filed the federal suit in Washington, D.C., on Monday against Cuellar after being terminated as his acting chief of staff last October. The... Read More

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Henry Cuellar

May 8, 2019

Prosecutors: Sheriff lied to FBI about jailing innocent man

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff and two deputies angered by someone videotaping a police investigation jailed the man for three days, created a fake police report, took his cellphone and tried to destroy it and lied to the FBI, according to federal indictments. Chester County Sheriff Alex Underwood, his Chief Deputy Robert... Read More

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May 8, 2019

Washington state governor signs bills tightening gun rules

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a group of bills Tuesday tightening rules on guns in some circumstances, part of a national shift toward more narrowly focused gun legislation. Included in the bills were provisions allowing temporary gun bans on people being released from short-term psychiatric holds and people found incompetent to stand... Read More

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Guns

May 8, 2019

Feds sue WV governor’s coal companies over safety violations

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. government sued nearly two dozen of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s coal companies Tuesday to get them to pay about $4.8 million in unpaid mine safety fines. The civil lawsuit was filed by federal prosecutors in Virginia on behalf of the U.S. Department of Labor and the Mine Safety... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

May 8, 2019

Prosecutors accuse Kraft’s lawyers of lying in court

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s high-profile defense attorneys lied during his misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution case and falsely alleged a police officer admitted to fabricating a traffic violation to stop another massage parlor customer, prosecutors asserted Tuesday. The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office filed a motion asking Judge... Read More

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Robert Kraft

May 8, 2019

A 3rd parent pleads guilty in college admissions scheme

BOSTON (AP) — A California executive who pleaded guilty to charges that he paid $400,000 in bribes to get his son into Georgetown University has been fired. Stephen Semprevivo pleaded guilty Tuesday in Boston federal court. He is the third parent to plead guilty in the vast college admissions bribery scheme. Authorities say Semprevivo gave... Read More

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Admissions Scheme

May 8, 2019

Witness testifies on secret society’s ‘sex slave’ initiation

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman testified on Tuesday that shortly after being recruited for a secret “master-slave” society within an upstate New York self-help group she got a disturbing message from her handler: It was her turn to “seduce” the group’s leader, Keith Raniere. The witness at Raniere’s trial at federal court in Manhattan... Read More

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Keith Raniere, NXIVM

May 8, 2019

Officer mourned; suspect’s mother says son was troubled

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Residents in a Mississippi Gulf Coast city continued on Tuesday to mourn the death of a longtime officer who authorities said was gunned down by a man whose mental health had, according to his mother, been sliding in recent months. A local NAACP leader said the man had threatened to shoot... Read More

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Robert McKeithen

May 8, 2019

Opponents of Georgia abortion ban promise court challenge

ATLANTA (AP) — Opponents of a Georgia law banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected vow to take their fight from the state Capitol to the courthouse. Signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, the measure is one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws and would effectively ban the procedure around six... Read More

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Abortion

May 8, 2019

Momentum builds in Oregon to require unanimous jury verdicts

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — After a jury convicted an Oregon man of having sex with a passed-out partygoer, one of the jurors left the courthouse and wept. Cash Spencer and three other jurors believed the defendant was innocent, but after a lunch break, one changed her mind. Hours later, another changed her vote to guilty,... Read More

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Olan Williams

May 7, 2019

Man freed after 30 years pleads not guilty to rape charge

SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man freed from prison after serving three decades for a rape he says he did not commit pleaded not guilty Monday to new rape charges. George Perrot, 50, was held without bail after a hearing in Essex Superior Court in connection with the allegation that he raped a woman... Read More

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George Perrot

May 7, 2019

Lawyer: Driver in wrong-way crash that killed 5 was insane

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man charged with killing five teenagers in a wrong-way crash almost three years ago was psychotic and delusional at the time and thus legally insane, his lawyer argued Monday during opening statements in his client’s murder trial. The lawyer for Steven Bourgoin acknowledged his client was driving the vehicle... Read More

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Steven Bourgoin

May 7, 2019

Trial to determine if government liable for Harvey flooding

HOUSTON (AP) — Residents seeking compensation after their Houston-area homes and businesses were flooded by two federally owned reservoirs during Hurricane Harvey say authorities knew for decades that such an inundation was inevitable but did nothing to prevent it, an attorney for the property owners said in court Monday. The two-week trial will focus on... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

Suspect in shooting at North Carolina university indicted

Congressman’s ex-aide says she was fired for being pregnant

Prosecutors: Sheriff lied to FBI about jailing innocent man

Washington state governor signs bills tightening gun rules

Feds sue WV governor’s coal companies over safety violations

Prosecutors accuse Kraft’s lawyers of lying in court

A 3rd parent pleads guilty in college admissions scheme

Witness testifies on secret society’s ‘sex slave’ initiation

Officer mourned; suspect’s mother says son was troubled

Opponents of Georgia abortion ban promise court challenge

Momentum builds in Oregon to require unanimous jury verdicts

Man freed after 30 years pleads not guilty to rape charge

Lawyer: Driver in wrong-way crash that killed 5 was insane

Trial to determine if government liable for Harvey flooding

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