Shooting survivor sues Southern California synagogue

POWAY, Calif. (AP) — A man wounded in a shooting at a San Diego-area synagogue is suing the house of worship, alleging Chabad of Poway didn’t use federal funds meant to hire security to protect worshipers, according to a newspaper report. In the lawsuit obtained by Los Angeles Times, Almog Peretz claims the synagogue did... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

December 9, 2019

Alabama doesn’t appeal injunction blocking abortion ban

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s near-total abortion ban will remain blocked by a federal judge as a lawsuit over the ban plays out in court. Alabama did not appeal the court injunction that blocked the state’s near-total abortion ban from taking effect last month, according to the attorney general’s office. The state has previously acknowledged... Read More

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Abortion

December 9, 2019

State AGs look to head off T-Mobile-Sprint deal in court

NEW YORK (AP) — A high-drama telecom deal is heading to court. T-Mobile, in its attempt to buy Sprint for $26.5 billion, has already notched approvals from key federal regulators. Now it must convince a federal judge that the 14 state attorneys general suing to stop the deal are wrong. A trial starts Monday in... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, News

December 9, 2019

Accidental shootings by police expose training shortfalls

SEATTLE (AP) — When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, but he accidentally fired his weapon as a dog approached. The bullet went through the woman’s arm and into her chest, killing her... Read More

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December 6, 2019

Suspect in kidnap-slaying won’t seek bond in separate case

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man held in the abduction and slaying of an Alabama college student isn’t fighting for bond in a separate kidnapping case, his attorney said Thursday. News outlets reported that Ibraheem Yazeed, 29, appeared in Montgomery County court on kidnapping, attempted murder and robbery charges linked to an incident in February.... Read More

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Aniah Blanchard, Ibraheem Yazeed

December 6, 2019

Lawsuit: McCarrick victim told pope of sex abuse in 1988

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man claims in a lawsuit filed under a recently enacted New Jersey law that he told Pope John Paul II in 1988 about being sexually abused as a child by the priest who would become Cardinal Theodore McCarrick but that the Vatican did nothing — claims he also made in... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Religion, Sexual Abuse

Catholic Church, Theodore McCarrick

December 6, 2019

Indicted jail officers faced earlier excessive force claims

BALTIMORE (AP) — When a prisoner shattered glass panes in a control center at a Baltimore jail, the staff summoned a paramilitary-style tactical team to help quell the disturbance. Some inmates used pieces of shirts or bedsheets to hide their faces. What happened at the jail on that Friday afternoon in May 2017 has become... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Law Enforcement, News

December 6, 2019

Amazon blaming Trump over Pentagon contract loss, judge says

Amazon is arguing in a court case that President Donald Trump’s bias against the company harmed its chances of winning a $10 billion Pentagon contract. Amazon’s legal complaint against the Pentagon is sealed. A federal judge summarized its arguments in comments released Thursday. The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing contract to Microsoft in October. Federal... Read More

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Amazon

December 6, 2019

Doctor among painkiller’s top dispensers is convicted

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York doctor described as one of the nation’s top dispensers of a highly addictive painkiller 50 to 100 times as potent as morphine was convicted Thursday of accepting over $300,000 in bribes disguised as speaker fees to write prescriptions. Gordon Freedman, 59, of Mount Kisco, was convicted by a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Doctors, Drugs, News

Gordon Freedman

December 6, 2019

Lawyer: Accused Texas school shooter sent to mental hospital

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school was moved to state mental health hospital Thursday after a judge ruled last month that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial. Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 19, has been transferred from the county jail in Galveston to the North Texas... Read More

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Dimitrios Pagourtzis

December 6, 2019

After 14 years, eastern North Carolina judgeship gets filled

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The nation’s longest federal court vacancy ended Thursday after nearly 14 years of foot-dragging and politics as the U.S. Senate confirmed a university professor to a North Carolina trial court seat in a bipartisan vote. The chamber voted 68-21 to confirm Richard E. Myers, a former journalist turned attorney and law... Read More

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Richard E. Myers

December 6, 2019

Blind inmate executed in Tennessee for woman’s 1991 killing

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A blind prisoner convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend by setting her on fire in her car was put to death Thursday in Tennessee’s electric chair, becoming only the second inmate without sight to be executed in the U.S. since the reinstatement of the nation’s death penalty in 1976. Lee Hall,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

Lee Hall

December 6, 2019

R. Kelly charged with paying bribe before marrying Aaliyah

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors are accusing singer R. Kelly of scheming with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994. The revised indictment, filed Thursday in New York, accuses Kelly of paying... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Aaliyah, R. Kelly

December 6, 2019

Kansas judge accused of bigotry, profanities in courthouse

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A foul-mouthed Kansas judge accused of bigotry and racism who cursed at courthouse employees so often that a trial clerk kept a “swear journal” documenting his obscene outbursts is facing complaints that his conduct violates the central judicial canons of independence, integrity and impartiality. The Kansas Commission on Judicial Qualifications will... Read More

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F. William Cullins

Shooting survivor sues Southern California synagogue

Alabama doesn’t appeal injunction blocking abortion ban

State AGs look to head off T-Mobile-Sprint deal in court

Accidental shootings by police expose training shortfalls

Suspect in kidnap-slaying won’t seek bond in separate case

Lawsuit: McCarrick victim told pope of sex abuse in 1988

Indicted jail officers faced earlier excessive force claims

Amazon blaming Trump over Pentagon contract loss, judge says

Doctor among painkiller’s top dispensers is convicted

Lawyer: Accused Texas school shooter sent to mental hospital

After 14 years, eastern North Carolina judgeship gets filled

Blind inmate executed in Tennessee for woman’s 1991 killing

R. Kelly charged with paying bribe before marrying Aaliyah

Kansas judge accused of bigotry, profanities in courthouse

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