Jury selection to start in trial of NY governor’s ex-aide

NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime aide to New York’s governor is going on trial on charges he used his relationship with him to collect bribes from two companies doing business with the state. Jury selection starts Monday in federal court in Manhattan in the trial of Joseph Percoco, a former aide to Gov. Andrew... Read More

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Fraud, Joseph Percoco

January 22, 2018

Opening statements to begin in Pennsylvania mayor’s trial

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Opening statements are scheduled to begin in the federal corruption trial of the mayor of Pennsylvania’s third-largest city. Prosecutors say Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski ran a pay-to-play scheme. He’s accused of trading more than $150,000 in city contracts for campaign donations that fueled his aborted runs for governor and U.S. Senate.... Read More

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Ed Pawlowski, Fraud

January 22, 2018

Preliminary hearing set for man charged in hospital shooting

HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — A preliminary hearing is set for a man accused of killing his mother in a New Hampshire hospital’s intensive care unit. The hearing for 49-year-old Travis Frink of Warwick, Rhode Island, is scheduled for Monday. Frink is accused of shooting his mother multiple times at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon on... Read More

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Shooting, Travis Frink

January 22, 2018

Man accused of killing teen in 1980 set to go on trial

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A man accused of killing a teenager in Maine in 1980 in a cold case that vexed authorities for years is set to go on trial. A judge will hear opening statements on Monday in the trial of Philip Scott Fournier. Fournier was charged in 2016 in the slaying of 16-year-old... Read More

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Joyce McLain, Philip Scott Fournier

January 22, 2018

Man charged in Tennessee student’s death could plead guilty

SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) — A man charged with kidnapping, raping and killing a Tennessee nursing student could plead guilty in the case. Judge C. Creed McGinley has given prosecutors and lawyers for John Dylan Adams a Monday deadline to reach an agreement that would let him avoid trial in the death of Holly Bobo. A... Read More

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Holly Bobo, John Dylan Adams

January 20, 2018

Life term for California man’s ‘unforgivable’ child slayings

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California man apologized for the “unforgivable” slayings of his three children as he was sentenced to life in prison. The Sacramento Bee newspaper reports that Robert Hodges apologized Friday to his wife for destroying the life they had built together by suffocating infant Lucas Hodges and strangling 9-year-old Julie... Read More

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Robert William Hodges

January 20, 2018

Prosecutors to seek death penalty in Chinese scholar case

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a former physics student charged with the kidnapping and killing of a University of Illinois scholar from China, they told a judge in a Friday filing that also made a new allegation that the 28-year-old suspect once choked and sexually assaulted someone else years... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

Brendt Christensen

January 20, 2018

Governor denies parole for Manson follower Leslie Van Houten

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The governor of California once again denied parole Friday for Leslie Van Houten, the youngest follower of murderous cult leader Charles Manson who blamed herself at her parole hearing for letting him control her life. Gov. Jerry Brown said in his decision that Van Houten still lays too much of the... Read More

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Charles Manson, Leslie Van Houten

January 20, 2018

President Trump steps to forefront of anti-abortion movement

WASHINGTON (AP) — He once called himself “pro-choice.” But a year into his presidency, Donald Trump is stepping to the forefront of his administration’s efforts to roll back abortion rights. “Love saves lives,” the president said Friday from the White House Rose Garden, in an address broadcast to thousands of demonstrators in the annual March... Read More

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Abortion, Trump

January 20, 2018

Experts: Shackled children face long road to recovery

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — They are safe for now and, according to authorities, they are relieved. But the 13 children, aged 2 to 29, rescued from what was described as nothing less than a torture chamber will have years of therapy ahead, experts say, as they learn to live in a world that, until a... Read More

Bad Parenting, Criminal Justice News, News

David Allen Turpin, Louise Anna Turpin

January 20, 2018

Olympic gymnast abused by ex-doctor wants him to suffer

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman on Friday confronted her former doctor who has pleaded guilty to multiple sexual assaults, warning him that the testimony of the “powerful army” of 140 survivors at his sentencing will haunt him in prison. More than 80 of the women and girls whom Larry Nassar abused... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Doctors, News, Sexual Abuse, Sports

Larry Nassar

January 19, 2018

Once pot friendly Northern California county bans marijuana

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A previously pot friendly rural Northern California county has reversed course and banned commercial marijuana farms, paving the way for lawsuits from growers who previously received permits and paid taxes. A newly constituted Calaveras County board of supervisors last week voted 3-2 to ban marijuana, giving some 200 farmers with permits... Read More

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California, Marijuana, Pot

January 19, 2018

Group pushes lawsuit saying book infringes on artist’s work

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A group that preserves and promotes the work of a deaf, self-taught Idaho artist whose creations appear in museums around the world is fighting an attempt to dismiss its copyright infringement lawsuit against an Oregon children’s book author. The Boise, Idaho-based James Castle Collection and Archive said in documents filed Tuesday... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

January 19, 2018

Prosecutors want to call 19 other accusers at Cosby retrial

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors preparing for Bill Cosby’s retrial on sexual assault charges told a judge Thursday that they want to call 19 other accusers to try to show a pattern of “prior bad acts” over five decades. The comedian’s first trial ended with a hung jury in June. In that proceeding, prosecutors asked to... Read More

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Bill Cosby

Jury selection to start in trial of NY governor’s ex-aide

Opening statements to begin in Pennsylvania mayor’s trial

Preliminary hearing set for man charged in hospital shooting

Man accused of killing teen in 1980 set to go on trial

Man charged in Tennessee student’s death could plead guilty

Life term for California man’s ‘unforgivable’ child slayings

Prosecutors to seek death penalty in Chinese scholar case

Governor denies parole for Manson follower Leslie Van Houten

President Trump steps to forefront of anti-abortion movement

Experts: Shackled children face long road to recovery

Olympic gymnast abused by ex-doctor wants him to suffer

Once pot friendly Northern California county bans marijuana

Group pushes lawsuit saying book infringes on artist’s work

Prosecutors want to call 19 other accusers at Cosby retrial

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