Lawyers try to seize Japanese assets over Korean forced work

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Lawyers for South Koreans forced into wartime labor have taken legal steps to seize the South Korean assets of a Japanese company they are trying to pressure into following a court ruling to provide them compensation. Lawyer Lim Jae-sung said Thursday the court in the city of Pohang could decide... Read More

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January 4, 2019

Powerful Chicago council member charged in federal probe

CHICAGO (AP) — One of the most powerful and longest-serving City Council members in Chicago history appeared in federal court Thursday on a charge that he tried to shake down a major fast-food restaurant chain seeking city remodeling permits. Alderman Ed Burke, 75, is charged with one count of attempted extortion for conveying to company... Read More

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Ed Burke

January 4, 2019

Navy SEAL to plead not guilty to murder charge of ISIS teen

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A decorated Navy SEAL is facing charges of premediated murder and numerous other offenses in connection with the fatal stabbing of a teenage Islamic State prisoner under his care in Iraq in 2017, along with the shooting of unarmed Iraqi civilians. Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher plans to plead not guilty... Read More

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Edward Gallagher

January 3, 2019

Former USC assistant coach pleads guilty in corruption case

NEW YORK (AP) — A former assistant basketball coach for the University of Southern California pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit bribery, admitting he accepted $4,100 in cash to steer players at the school to certain financial advisers and business managers. Tony Bland’s plea in Manhattan federal court makes it likely he will spend... Read More

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Tony Bland

January 3, 2019

Ex-NYPD deputy inspector cleared at police corruption trial

NEW YORK (AP) — A former deputy inspector for the New York Police Department was exonerated on bribery charges Wednesday after prosecutors failed to prove he accepted gifts in exchange for doing favors for two businessmen. The verdict that cleared James Grant also resulted in the conviction of his co-defendant, businessman Jeremy Reichberg. It capped... Read More

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James Grant

January 3, 2019

California county to pay $5M over torture-killing of girl

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The city and county of Napa in Northern California will pay $5 million to relatives of a 3-year-old girl who was tortured and killed by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend. The San Francisco Chronicle says a December settlement was announced Wednesday in a wrongful death lawsuit over the 2014 killing... Read More

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Kayleigh Slusher

January 3, 2019

Jury selection set in trial over 6 killings in Michigan

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of a man charged with killing six strangers in southwestern Michigan nearly three years ago. Jason Dalton is charged with murder and attempted murder. He’s accused of shooting eight people in three locations in the Kalamazoo area in February 2016 while he... Read More

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Jason Dalton

January 3, 2019

Black soybean farmers returning to court in seed lawsuit

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Some black farmers from Mississippi and Tennessee are returning to federal court for a hearing on their lawsuit claiming a seed company sold them faulty soybean seeds because of their race. Stine Seed Co. has denied accusations that a salesman sold thousands of dollars’ worth of defective seeds to the farmers... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, News

January 3, 2019

Young immigrants seeking refuge from abuse face denials

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some immigrant youth looking to start over in the United States after fleeing abusive homes are seeing their applications for green cards rejected because the Trump administration says they’re too old. A U.S. government program in place since 1990 has let young immigrants subject to abuse, abandonment or neglect by a... Read More

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Immigration

January 3, 2019

Mexican man charged with killing cop gets mental health exam

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — A Mexican national accused of living in the U.S. illegally was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of a California police officer who pulled him over to check if he was driving drunk. Gustavo Perez Arriaga made his first court appearance in the central California city of Modesto but... Read More

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Gustavo Perez Arriaga

January 3, 2019

Saudi Arabia says 5 face death penalty in Khashoggi killing

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday it will seek the death penalty against five suspects in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a killing that has seen members of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s entourage implicated in the writer’s assassination. Prosecutors announced that 11 suspects in the slaying... Read More

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Jamal Khashoggi

January 3, 2019

Naming names: A reckoning is underway in US Catholic Church

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Over the past four months, Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. have released the names of more than 1,000 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children in an unprecedented public reckoning spurred at least in part by a shocking grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania, an Associated Press review has found. Nearly... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Religion, Sexual Abuse

Catholic Church

January 2, 2019

Court records detail Spacey’s encounter with teenager

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who says he was groped by Kevin Spacey at a Nantucket restaurant in 2016 caught part of his encounter with the actor on video, according to court records. The then 18-year-old man sent a video via Snapchat to his girlfriend that allegedly showed Spacey touching the front of his... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Kevin Spacey

January 2, 2019

Franklin attorney: $3 million in back taxes paid to IRS

DETROIT (AP) — Aretha Franklin’s estate has paid at least $3 million in back taxes to the IRS since her death in August, an attorney for the late Queen of Soul’s estate said Thursday. The estate is being audited by the IRS, which filed a claim this month in a county probate court north of... Read More

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Aretha Franklin

Lawyers try to seize Japanese assets over Korean forced work

Powerful Chicago council member charged in federal probe

Navy SEAL to plead not guilty to murder charge of ISIS teen

Former USC assistant coach pleads guilty in corruption case

Ex-NYPD deputy inspector cleared at police corruption trial

California county to pay $5M over torture-killing of girl

Jury selection set in trial over 6 killings in Michigan

Black soybean farmers returning to court in seed lawsuit

Young immigrants seeking refuge from abuse face denials

Mexican man charged with killing cop gets mental health exam

Saudi Arabia says 5 face death penalty in Khashoggi killing

Naming names: A reckoning is underway in US Catholic Church

Court records detail Spacey’s encounter with teenager

Franklin attorney: $3 million in back taxes paid to IRS

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