City leaders: Smollett owes Chicago $130K for investigation

CHICAGO (AP) — City officials have ordered Jussie Smollett to pay $130,000 to cover the cost of the investigation into his report of a street attack that Chicago police say was staged to promote his career. A letter from the city’s legal department sent Thursday to Smollett and his attorneys said the figure covers overtime... Read More

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Jussie Smollett

March 28, 2019

Man gets death for teen’s rape, murder, dismemberment

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man who killed and dismembered his girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter as part of a rape-murder fantasy he shared with the teenager’s mother was sentenced Thursday to death. Jacob Sullivan, 46, had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and related charges for killing Grace Packer in 2016. After deliberating over parts of three... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

March 28, 2019

Arizona lawmaker resigns amid probe of 1983 sex charges

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Rep. David Stringer resigned Wednesday amid an ethics investigation of 1983 sex charges and his comments on race and immigration. The Prescott Republican lawmaker stepped down as he faced a 5 p.m. deadline to hand over documents demanded by the House Ethics Committee. Earlier in the day he made an emergency... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics, Sexual Abuse

David Stringer

March 28, 2019

Michael Avenatti goes from media darling to criminal suspect

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Avenatti seemingly came out of nowhere, a sharply dressed lawyer with a penetrating gaze who said he would prove President Donald Trump had sex with a porn star and paid her off to keep quiet ahead of the 2016 election. Suddenly, Avenatti was everywhere — on Twitter, talking to any... Read More

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Michael Avenatti

March 28, 2019

FAA defends its reliance on aircraft makers to certify jets

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire from lawmakers on Capitol Hill over the two deadly Boeing crashes, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday defended the agency’s practice of relying on aircraft makers to help certify their own planes for flight. Acting FAA Administrator Daniel Elwell said the strategy has “consistently produced safe aircraft... Read More

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Boeing, FAA

March 28, 2019

Wisconsin appeals court restores laws from lame-duck session

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday reinstated laws Republicans passed during a lame-duck session to weaken the Democratic governor and attorney general, but the statutes remain blocked because of a ruling in a separate case. Republicans passed the legislation in December after Democrat Tony Evers defeated Republican Gov. Scott Walker and... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

March 28, 2019

Guilty plea to hate crimes in deadly car attack at rally

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — In a case that stirred racial tensions across the country, a self-avowed white supremacist pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime charges in a deadly attack at a white nationalist rally in Virginia, admitting that he intentionally plowed his speeding car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters, killing a woman and... Read More

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James Alex Fields Jr.

March 28, 2019

Man pleads guilty to kidnapping Jayme Closs, killing parents

BARRON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Wednesday to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents, in a move that spares the girl held captive in a remote cabin for three months from the possible trauma of having to testify at his trial. Jake Patterson, 21, sniffled and his voice caught as... Read More

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Jake Patterson

March 28, 2019

Member of ‘Texas 7’ prison-break gang set for execution

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A member of the “Texas 7” gang of escaped prisoners who’s scheduled to be executed Thursday evening should be spared because he didn’t fatally shoot a suburban Dallas police officer during a Christmas Eve robbery more than 18 years ago, according to his attorneys. Patrick Murphy, 57, is slated to receive... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

March 28, 2019

Smollett saga shook public trust, heightened racial tensions

In the two months since Jussie Smollett reported a late-night attack by assailants shouting racial and anti-gay slurs, the “Empire” actor and activist went from victim to defendant. Police and many in the black community rallied to his defense before condemning his account as a hoax. On Tuesday, Smollett was a defendant no more after... Read More

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Jussie Smollett

March 28, 2019

NY opioid lawsuit hits billionaire family behind OxyContin

NEW YORK (AP) — New York on Thursday sued the billionaire family behind OxyContin, joining a growing list of state and local governments alleging the drugmaker sparked the nation’s opioid crisis by putting hunger for profits over patient safety. The state, which averages nine opioid-related deaths per day, amended an existing lawsuit against pill maker... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Opioid

March 28, 2019

Judge sets April sentencing in Russian secret agent case

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian gun-rights activist will be sentenced next month after admitting she was a secret agent for the Kremlin who tried to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups as Donald Trump rose to power. Maria Butina appeared briefly Thursday in federal court in Washington and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan set Butina’s sentencing... Read More

Criminal Justice News, National Security, News

March 27, 2019

Patriots’ Kraft now wants jury trial on prostitution charge

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft now says he wants his misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution charge tried by a jury, not a judge. Kraft’s attorneys filed a court notice Tuesday also waiving his arraignment, which had been scheduled for Thursday. His lawyers also reiterated his not guilty plea, which... Read More

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Robert Kraft

March 27, 2019

Judge dismisses some of Levine’s claims against Met Opera

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed by former Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine against the company last year. Levine was the Met’s music or artistic director from 1976-2016, then became its music director emeritus. He was fired in March 2018 after the Met said... Read More

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Met Opera

City leaders: Smollett owes Chicago $130K for investigation

Man gets death for teen’s rape, murder, dismemberment

Arizona lawmaker resigns amid probe of 1983 sex charges

Michael Avenatti goes from media darling to criminal suspect

FAA defends its reliance on aircraft makers to certify jets

Wisconsin appeals court restores laws from lame-duck session

Guilty plea to hate crimes in deadly car attack at rally

Man pleads guilty to kidnapping Jayme Closs, killing parents

Member of ‘Texas 7’ prison-break gang set for execution

Smollett saga shook public trust, heightened racial tensions

NY opioid lawsuit hits billionaire family behind OxyContin

Judge sets April sentencing in Russian secret agent case

Patriots’ Kraft now wants jury trial on prostitution charge

Judge dismisses some of Levine’s claims against Met Opera

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