Judge allows California’s shift to energy saving light bulbs

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday allowed California’s updated light bulb efficiency standards to take effect with the new year. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller of Sacramento rejected a petition from the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and the American Lighting Association to temporarily block new minimum efficiency standards for light bulbs that... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

January 2, 2020

Lawyers: Robert Durst wrote incriminating ‘cadaver’ note

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for New York real estate heir Robert Durst acknowledge he penned a note tipping off police to the location of the body of a friend he’s accused of killing, according to court documents. In a court filing last week in Los Angeles Superior Court, lawyers for Durst conceded he had... Read More

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Robert Durst

January 2, 2020

Financial tug-of-war emerges over fire victims’ settlement

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A financial tug-of-war is emerging over the $13.5 billion that the nation’s largest utility has agreed to pay to victims of recent California wildfires, as government agencies jockey for more than half the money to cover the costs of their response to the catastrophes. Pacific Gas & Electric declared bankruptcy nearly... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

January 2, 2020

Lawmakers pledge ERA will pass in Virginia. Then what?

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment are so confident Virginia is on the verge of becoming the critical 38th state to ratify the gender equality measure, they are already making plans for how they will celebrate. But that jubilation could be largely symbolic. Despite broad support for the amendment in the... Read More

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Equal Rights Amendment

December 31, 2019

Serial killer Phillip Jablonski dies on California death row

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A serial killer whose five victims included two wives has died on California’s death row, authorities said Monday. Phillip Carl Jablonski, 73, was found unresponsive in his San Quentin State Prison cell on Friday and pronounced dead within minutes. His cause of death is awaiting an autopsy, but he had been... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

Phillip Carl Jablonski

December 31, 2019

Federal judge won’t undo Georgia voter purge

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia doesn’t have to put almost 100,000 voters back on its rolls, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones ruled that a voting rights advocacy group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams is improperly asking him to interpret state law. Jones also said the group hasn’t proved that people... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

December 31, 2019

Firm sues California over ban on private prisons

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A private prison firm that just won multibillion-dollar contracts to run federal immigration detention centers in California sued the state on Monday, claiming that a new ban on for-profit lockups in California is unconstitutional. The GEO Group, Inc., argued in the federal suit that Assembly Bill 32, signed by Gov. Gavin... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

December 31, 2019

Woman sues Epstein estate, says she was 14 during encounter

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A woman who says she was 14 when she had a sexual encounter with financier Jeffrey Epstein at his mansion sued his estate in Florida court on Monday for coercion, inflicting emotional distress and battery. The lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County asks for an undisclosed amount of money.... Read More

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Jeffrey Epstein

December 31, 2019

Uber, Postmates sue to challenge California’s new labor law

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Ride-share company Uber and on-demand meal delivery service Postmates sued Monday to block a broad new California law aimed at giving wage and benefit protections to people who work as independent contractors. The lawsuit filed in U.S. court in Los Angeles argues that the law set to take effect Wednesday violates... Read More

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Postmates, Uber

December 31, 2019

Officials: Hanukkah attack suspect researched Hitler online

MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) — A man charged with federal hate crimes Monday in a bloody attack on a Hanukkah celebration had handwritten journals containing anti-Semitic references and had recently used his phone to look up information on Hitler and the location of synagogues, authorities said. Grafton Thomas, 37, was held without bail after appearing in... Read More

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Grafton Thomas

December 31, 2019

Man arrested after claiming to be missing child due in court

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge will hear next week whether a plea deal has been reached in the case of a 24-year-old man authorities say claimed to be a long-missing child. U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett has a Jan. 8 status conference set in the case of Brian Michael Rini, of Medina, Ohio. Barrett... Read More

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Brian Michael Rini

December 31, 2019

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

CHICAGO (AP) — A globe-trotting Jesuit priest with ties to Mother Teresa sexually abused an American boy “more than 1,000 times, in multiple states and countries,” a lawsuit filed Monday in California state court in San Francisco alleges. In the lawsuit and in interviews with The Associated Press, Robert J. Goldberg, now 61, describes years... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Religion, Sexual Abuse

Robert J. Goldberg

December 30, 2019

Suit on ex-offender voting filed in close-divided N Carolina

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina law that prohibits convicted felons from voting until their full sentence is completed — not just their prison time — is being challenged in court with arguments that were successfully used in recent election-related litigation. Three groups that help ex-prisoners rejoin society, with six defendants barred from voting... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

December 30, 2019

Iowa hate crimes suspect got breaks after earlier arrests

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — She was charged with stabbing one boyfriend in the chest in 2017 and, months later, with threatening another with a butcher’s knife. She allegedly told her ex-husband that she was going to kill him during a child custody dispute. Despite her violence and threats, chronic drug use and mental health... Read More

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Nicole Marie Poole

Judge allows California’s shift to energy saving light bulbs

Lawyers: Robert Durst wrote incriminating ‘cadaver’ note

Financial tug-of-war emerges over fire victims’ settlement

Lawmakers pledge ERA will pass in Virginia. Then what?

Serial killer Phillip Jablonski dies on California death row

Federal judge won’t undo Georgia voter purge

Firm sues California over ban on private prisons

Woman sues Epstein estate, says she was 14 during encounter

Uber, Postmates sue to challenge California’s new labor law

Officials: Hanukkah attack suspect researched Hitler online

Man arrested after claiming to be missing child due in court

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

Suit on ex-offender voting filed in close-divided N Carolina

Iowa hate crimes suspect got breaks after earlier arrests

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