The Latest: Officer in chokehold death case is ‘gratified’

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the decision not to bring civil rights charges in the death of Eric Garner (all times local): 2:15 p.m. A lawyer says New York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo (pan-tuh-LAY’-oh) is “gratified” that the Justice Department carefully reviewed his case rather than what he calls the “lies and inaccuracies”... Read More

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Daniel Pantaleo, Eric Garner

July 17, 2019

Federal data shows opioid shipments ballooned as crisis grew

CLEVELAND (AP) — Newly released federal data shows how drugmakers and distributors increased shipments of opioid painkillers across the U.S. as the nation’s addiction crisis accelerated from 2006 to 2012. The data, released this week by a federal court in Ohio as part of a far-reaching opioids case, shows that companies distributed 8.4 billion hydrocodone... Read More

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Opioids

July 16, 2019

Avenatti: R. Kelly paid $2M to silence girl he assaulted

CHICAGO (AP) — Celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti said Monday that R&B singer R. Kelly paid $2 million to keep the alleged victim in a child pornography case off the witness stand during a 2008 trial that ended with his acquittal on all charges. “R. Kelly bought his acquittal,” Avenatti said at a news conference in... Read More

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R. Kelly

July 16, 2019

Women urge jail until trial for Epstein as judge weighs bail

NEW YORK (AP) — Two Jeffrey Epstein accusers urged a judge Monday to keep the wealthy financier behind bars until he goes on trial on federal charges that he sexually abused underage girls. The women stood just feet from where Epstein was seated in his blue jail outfit as they asked a federal judge to... Read More

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Jeffrey Epstein

July 16, 2019

Former Iowa official wins $1.5M in discrimination case

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and a staffer discriminated against the state’s then-commissioner of workers’ compensation in 2011 because he’s gay, and the ex-official is entitled to $1.5 million for emotional distress, a jury said Monday. Polk County jurors found that Chris Godfrey not only proved the discrimination occurred, but... Read More

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Terry Branstad

July 16, 2019

Sister of man who killed Chinese scholar: He was ‘gentle’

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The sister of a former University of Illinois student convicted of killing a Chinese scholar told a jury deciding whether he should be executed that he was a “very gentle person” who never raised his voice. Andrea Christensen was the last witness that lawyers for Brendt Christensen called to the stand... Read More

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Brendt Christensen

July 16, 2019

Jury says Toyota must pay $16M in dealer recall lawsuit

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Toyota has been ordered to pay nearly $16 million to a Southern California dealer who alleged the company’s Prius recalls didn’t fix safety problems. The Los Angeles Times says an Orange County jury decided Monday that Toyota had breached “good faith and fair dealing” with Roger Hogan, who has dealerships... Read More

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Toyota

July 16, 2019

R. Kelly expected to appear for court hearing Tuesday

CHICAGO (AP) — R&B singer R. Kelly is expected to appear in a Chicago federal courtroom on charges that he recruited girls and women to have illegal sex with him and then covered up the crimes by paying and threatening the victims and witnesses. Federal judges were supposed to meet Monday in Chicago to figure... Read More

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Kelly, R

July 16, 2019

Meek Mill seeks new trial, judge after decade-long probation

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawyers for Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill will ask an appeals court Tuesday to overturn a 2008 drug and gun conviction that’s kept the Philadelphia rapper on probation for a decade. The city judge who oversees the case and sent him to prison in 2017 on a parole violation has a grudge against... Read More

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Meek Mill

July 16, 2019

Prosecutors want Mexican megachurch leader held without bail

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors have asked a judge to hold the leader of a Mexican megachurch without bail on charges of child rape and human trafficking. Naasón Joaquín García, leader of La Luz del Mundo, is currently held on $50 million bail — believed to be the highest ever in Los Angeles County. He... Read More

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La Luz del Mundo, Naasón Joaquín García

July 16, 2019

Tennessee man convicted in killing of pawn shop owner

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man has been sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of a pawn shop owner more than five years ago. The Shelby County district attorney’s office said Monday that 35-year-old Charles Griffen was sentenced by a Criminal Court judge after Griffen was convicted of first-degree murder in... Read More

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Charles Griffen

July 16, 2019

‘Justice wasn’t served’: 50 years since Chappaquiddick

BOSTON (AP) — The crash ended a young woman’s life, and with it, a man’s White House dreams. U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s Oldsmobile sedan veered off a narrow bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, an extension of the resort island of Martha’s Vineyard off the Massachusetts coast, and plunged into a moonlit pond 50 years ago... Read More

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Edward M. Kennedy

July 16, 2019

No charges for officer in Garner chokehold death

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors won’t bring civil rights charges against a New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The decision not to bring charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo comes a day before the statute of limitations was set to... Read More

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Daniel Pantaleo, Eric Garner

July 16, 2019

Trial opens for Israeli woman charged in $145M fraud scheme

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal trial begins this week for an Israeli woman charged in the U.S. with directing a scheme to defraud tens of thousands of investors across the globe out of tens of millions of dollars. Jury selection for Lee Elbaz’s trial began Tuesday morning in Maryland. She’s one of 15 defendants... Read More

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Lee Elbaz

The Latest: Officer in chokehold death case is ‘gratified’

Federal data shows opioid shipments ballooned as crisis grew

Avenatti: R. Kelly paid $2M to silence girl he assaulted

Women urge jail until trial for Epstein as judge weighs bail

Former Iowa official wins $1.5M in discrimination case

Sister of man who killed Chinese scholar: He was ‘gentle’

Jury says Toyota must pay $16M in dealer recall lawsuit

R. Kelly expected to appear for court hearing Tuesday

Meek Mill seeks new trial, judge after decade-long probation

Prosecutors want Mexican megachurch leader held without bail

Tennessee man convicted in killing of pawn shop owner

‘Justice wasn’t served’: 50 years since Chappaquiddick

No charges for officer in Garner chokehold death

Trial opens for Israeli woman charged in $145M fraud scheme

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