Kansas anti-abortion measure fails; Medicaid plan targeted

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas failed to get a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot Friday, and abortion opponents responded by moving aggressively to block a Medicaid expansion plan backed by Democrats and GOP moderates. Neither side expected Friday’s vote in the Kansas House to be the last... Read More

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Abortion

February 10, 2020

Judge strikes blow to US immigration enforcement tactics

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has prohibited U.S. immigration authorities from relying on databases deemed faulty to ask law enforcement agencies to hold people in custody, a setback for the Trump administration that threatens to hamper how it carries out arrests. The ruling applies only to the Central District of California, where state... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

February 10, 2020

Court fight over lost dog survives after dog’s owner dies

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a legal fight over a lost dog could continue in Mississippi, even after the dog’s owner has died. The dispute is over a German shepherd named Max who jumped out a window and escaped from his owner’s Hattiesburg home in 2015. Max got loose... Read More

Animals, Criminal Justice News, News

Charles Holt

February 10, 2020

ICE sued over treatment of 5-year-old with head injury

HOUSTON (AP) — The mother of a 5-year-old Guatemalan boy sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the medical care he has received in detention for a head injury suffered before the family was arrested. The lawsuit filed late Friday in California asks a judge to order the child to be taken to a pediatric... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

February 10, 2020

Avenatti seeks to limit questioning in Nike extortion trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Defense attorneys asked a federal judge Saturday to prevent prosecutors from quizzing Michael Avenatti about other criminal charges he faces should he decide to testify about allegations he tried to extort Nike for millions of dollars. The celebrity lawyer could take the witness stand as soon as Monday at his New... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News

Michael Avenatti

February 10, 2020

Unique Illinois privacy law leads to $550M Facebook deal

CHICAGO (AP) — Adam Pezen, Carlo Licata and Nimesh Patel are among millions of people who have been tagged in Facebook photos at some point in the past decade, sometimes at the suggestion of an automated tagging feature powered by facial recognition technology. It was their Illinois addresses, though, that put the trio’s names atop... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Technology

Facebook

February 10, 2020

Weinstein’s many accusers follow trial anxiously from afar

Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial has unfolded this month in a 15th-floor courtroom in New York, but its reverberations are being felt far beyond, as his many accusers anxiously await the outcome. They wonder how the disgraced mogul’s wealth and power might affect the verdict. They wince at the way fellow accusers have been treated... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Harvey Weinstein

February 10, 2020

New Philadelphia police chief starts amid surge in homicides

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The new commissioner of the nation’s fourth-largest city police force will start work Monday amid a surge in homicides and calls for action to address ongoing allegations of racism and gender discrimination. Danielle Outlaw, the former police chief of Portland, Oregon, was chosen by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney from a pool of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Law Enforcement, News

Danielle Outlaw

February 10, 2020

Man accused of killing hotel worker seeks lawsuit dismissal

DARIEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man charged with killing a hotel worker he says attacked his family on the Caribbean island of Anguilla is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed against him. Scott Hapgood, of Darien, says a hotel worker, Kenny Mitchel, 27, of Dominica, showed up at his family’s room unannounced during their... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Scott Hapgood

February 10, 2020

Israel accused of torturing Palestinians after fatal attack

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — One of the men was hospitalized with kidney failure and 11 broken ribs. Another was nearly unrecognizable to his wife when he was wheeled into a courtroom. A third was stitched up after being attacked by a security dog. Then the three Palestinians were returned to their Israeli interrogators. They... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

February 10, 2020

Weinstein rape trial winds down with more defense witneses

NEW YORK (AP) — Lauren Marie Young says that after Harvey Weinstein groped her in a Beverly Hills hotel room bathroom in 2013, there was another woman there who did nothing to stop it. Taking the witness stand at Weinstein’s New York City rape trial last week, Young testified that a Mexican model named Claudia... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Harvey Weinstein

February 10, 2020

Second sexual assault trial begins for ex-college athlete

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jury selection is set in the second trial of a former University of Delaware baseball player accused of sexually assaulting six women. The process of choosing a jury for Clay Conaway’s trial was to begin Monday in Wilmington. The trial had originally been scheduled to be held in southern Delaware but... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

Clay Conaway

February 7, 2020

Man body-slammed by police sues Chicago, officer

CHICAGO (AP) — A 29-year-old man who was knocked unconscious when a Chicago police officer body slammed him onto a street curb sued the city and the officer on Thursday, saying the officer should have known the maneuver was dangerous because he is trained in martial arts. The officer detained Bernard Kersh at a South... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Law Enforcement, News

Bernard Kersh

February 7, 2020

San Francisco official, businessman make court appearance

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco official known around town as “Mr. Clean” and a charity-promoting restaurateur whom federal officials say conspired to line their own pockets at the expense of taxpayers’ trust appeared in court Thursday for the first time since their arrest last week. The FBI arrested public works director Mohammed Nuru... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News

Mohammed Nuru

Kansas anti-abortion measure fails; Medicaid plan targeted

Judge strikes blow to US immigration enforcement tactics

Court fight over lost dog survives after dog’s owner dies

ICE sued over treatment of 5-year-old with head injury

Avenatti seeks to limit questioning in Nike extortion trial

Unique Illinois privacy law leads to $550M Facebook deal

Weinstein’s many accusers follow trial anxiously from afar

New Philadelphia police chief starts amid surge in homicides

Man accused of killing hotel worker seeks lawsuit dismissal

Israel accused of torturing Palestinians after fatal attack

Weinstein rape trial winds down with more defense witneses

Second sexual assault trial begins for ex-college athlete

Man body-slammed by police sues Chicago, officer

San Francisco official, businessman make court appearance

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