PG&E settles key battle over $13.5B wildfire victims’ fund

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric told a federal bankruptcy judge Tuesday that it has settled a dispute with disaster-relief agencies that threatened to siphon money away from a $13.5 billion fund earmarked for victims of catastrophic wildfires in California caused by the nation’s largest utility. The breakthrough disclosed by a PG&E lawyer... Read More

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PG&E

March 11, 2020

Lawsuit aims to end California license plate language limits

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California may have to end most restrictions on personalized license plate language that some might find offensive, if a lawsuit filed Tuesday prevails. The libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation lawsuit challenges the state Department of Motor Vehicles’ current policy on free speech grounds. The department denied more than 30,000 of the nearly... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

March 11, 2020

San Francisco area man guilty of commuter train murder

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco area man with a history of violence and mental illness is guilty of the random stabbing death of an 18-year-old woman at a commuter train platform two years ago, a killing with racial undertones that prompted rallies and vigils. An Alameda County jury announced Tuesday it found John Lee... Read More

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John Lee Cowell

March 11, 2020

Hearing to be held after county ditched new voting machines

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state election board plans to hold an emergency hearing Wednesday to discuss whether election officials in one county violated state law or election rules when they decided not to use the state’s new voting machines for the presidential primary. The Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections voted 3-2 last week to sideline... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

March 11, 2020

A look at the college admissions cheating case 1 year later

BOSTON (AP) — A year after dozens of prominent parents and athletic coaches at top universities were arrested in a college admissions cheating scheme, some are heading to prison while others are gearing up to fight the charges at trial in Boston. More than 50 people have been charged in the case, which has put... Read More

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Admissions Scheme

March 11, 2020

Employee of US-owned hemp farm in Myanmar gets 20 years jail

YANGON (AP) — A court in Myanmar on Tuesday sentenced a local employee of an American-owned hemp farm to 20 years in prison for violating drug laws concerning marijuana. Shein Latt was one of three people arrested last April when police raided the 20-acre (8-hectare) plantation on an industrial estate in central Myanmar. Police deemed... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, International Justice Watch, News

Shein Latt

March 11, 2020

Weinstein faces sentencing, prison in landmark #MeToo case

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is back in court Wednesday for the final act of the rape trial that landed him behind bars: a sentencing hearing where the once-powerful film producer will learn just how long he’ll stay in prison for his landmark #MeToo conviction. Weinstein is scheduled to be sentenced in New York... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Harvey Weinstein

March 11, 2020

Loughlin, Giannulli lawyer is prosecutors’ ‘worst nightmare’

BOSTON (AP) — After winning guilty verdicts against top Enron executives in one of the most high-profile cases of corporate fraud, the lead prosecutor declared: “No matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to play by the rules.” More than a decade later, that same lawyer, Sean Berkowitz, is fighting to clear “Full... Read More

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Admissions Scheme

March 10, 2020

Self-help guru requests new trial in sex-trafficking case

NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of a cult-like self-improvement group that attracted heiresses and Hollywood actresses is requesting a new trial in his sex-trafficking case. A jury convicted Keith Raniere in June on all counts of sex-trafficking and coercing women into sex. He and his lawyers filed a motion Monday in Brooklyn federal court... Read More

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Keith Raniere

March 10, 2020

Minnesota deputy on trial for fatal shooting of suicidal man

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota sheriff’s deputy goes on trial this week in the April 2018 fatal shooting of a suicidal man with a gun who allegedly told police he wanted to kill himself as they tried to get him to surrender. Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Krook has pleaded not guilty to second-degree... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Law Enforcement, News

Brian Krook

March 10, 2020

Inmate convicted of murder captured after fleeing prison

SPRINGVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An inmate serving a life sentence after being convicted of murder was recaptured Tuesday hours after he escaped an Alabama prison for the second time in less than 20 years. Steve Ray Murphy, 64, escaped from the St. Clair Correctional Facility shortly after midnight, according to a Tuesday statement from the... Read More

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Steve Ray Murphy

March 10, 2020

Man cited for careless driving in crash that killed 4

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man has been cited for careless driving in a central Florida crash that killed two adults and two children visiting from Massachusetts, authorities said Monday. Lucas Dos Reis Laurindo, 26, was issued a ticket last week, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release. Federal officials previously took him into... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

March 10, 2020

The preventable death of an asylum seeker in a solitary cell

Roylan Hernandez Diaz’s long journey ended inside a white-walled cell in the solitary confinement wing of a Louisiana prison. Nearby were the last of his belongings: a tube of toothpaste, a few foam cups, and a sheet of paper explaining how he could request his release from immigration detention. He had already been denied three... Read More

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Roylan Hernandez Diaz

March 10, 2020

Gas company pleads guilty to causing blasts that killed 1

BOSTON (AP) — A utility company pleaded guilty Monday to causing a series of natural gas explosions in Massachusetts that killed one person and damaged dozens of homes. The president of Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, Mark Kempic, entered the plea in Boston’s federal court on behalf of the company responsible for the blasts that tore... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

Columbia Gas of Massachusetts

PG&E settles key battle over $13.5B wildfire victims’ fund

Lawsuit aims to end California license plate language limits

San Francisco area man guilty of commuter train murder

Hearing to be held after county ditched new voting machines

A look at the college admissions cheating case 1 year later

Employee of US-owned hemp farm in Myanmar gets 20 years jail

Weinstein faces sentencing, prison in landmark #MeToo case

Loughlin, Giannulli lawyer is prosecutors’ ‘worst nightmare’

Self-help guru requests new trial in sex-trafficking case

Minnesota deputy on trial for fatal shooting of suicidal man

Inmate convicted of murder captured after fleeing prison

Man cited for careless driving in crash that killed 4

The preventable death of an asylum seeker in a solitary cell

Gas company pleads guilty to causing blasts that killed 1

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