Georgia preparing to execute man for 1996 killing

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is preparing to execute a man Thursday for a killing that happened more than two decades ago as his lawyers argue in the courts that he didn’t play an active role in the fatal shooting and shouldn’t be put to death. Marion Wilson Jr., 42, is scheduled to receive a lethal... Read More

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Marion Wilson Jr.

June 19, 2019

Newtown parents score a win in growing fight against hoaxers

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened — the latest victory for victims’ relatives who have been taking a more aggressive stance against conspiracy theorists. The book, “Nobody Died... Read More

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Alex Jones, Newtown, Sandy Hook

June 19, 2019

Witness: Suspect in slaying tried to get her into his car

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A University of Illinois graduate student told jurors Tuesday that the man on trial for killing a 26-year-old visiting scholar from China tried to get her into his car by posing as an undercover police officer, saying she felt physically ill when she recognized him days later in a police photo... Read More

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Brendt Christensen

June 19, 2019

Photographer recounts facing Dallas gunman

DALLAS (AP) — Waiting outside a federal courthouse, photographer Tom Fox took in Dallas’ 8 a.m. bustle. People dressed for work got out of cars. A homeless man danced on a street pole. But when what initially sounded like a truck backfiring clarified into gunshots, the routine assignment for a veteran journalist morphed in a... Read More

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Brian Isaack Clyde

June 19, 2019

Panel hears case on conditions for young migrants on border

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. government lawyer on Tuesday said a longstanding settlement agreement requiring sanitary conditions for detained immigrant children may not necessarily mean a toothbrush and soap must be provided for shorter stays. Sarah Fabian, senior litigation counsel for the Department of Justice, told a three judge-panel at the Ninth U.S. Circuit... Read More

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Illegal Immigration, Immigration

June 19, 2019

PG&E to pay $1 billion to governments for wildfire damage

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California utility agreed Tuesday to pay $1 billion to 14 local governments to cover damages from a series of deadly wildfires caused by its downed power lines. The settlement is a sliver of the more than $30 billion in potential damages Pacific Gas & Electric is facing in lawsuits filed... Read More

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PG&E

June 19, 2019

Wayne Newton tells Vegas jury he fired shot as burglars fled

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Longtime Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton told a Nevada jury on Tuesday that he fired a gunshot to scare away two burglars that he and his wife and their teenage daughter encountered during a second burglary in 10 days at their home a year ago. “My wife was in hysterics and... Read More

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Wayne Newton

June 19, 2019

Was dead militant war casualty or Navy SEAL’s murder victim?

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The photo shows a decorated Navy SEAL holding up the head of a dead Islamic State fighter by the hair while clenching a knife in his other hand. It will be up to a seven-man jury of mostly combat veterans to decide if it was a snapshot in poor taste of... Read More

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Edward Gallagher

June 19, 2019

$4.5M in settlements over deaths tied to doc in murder case

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio hospital system has reached nearly $4.5 million in settlements so far over the deaths of patients who allegedly received excessive painkiller doses ordered by a doctor now charged with murder. At least 29 wrongful-death lawsuits have been filed against the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System and now-fired intensive care... Read More

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William Husel

June 19, 2019

Delaware court revives Blue Bell Creameries shareholder suit

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware’s Supreme Court has overturned the dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit against one the country’s largest ice cream makers after a 2015 listeria outbreak that killed three people. The court ruled Tuesday that a judge erred because the plaintiff had not demanded that the board of Blue Bell Creameries take action... Read More

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Blue Bell

June 19, 2019

Georgia parole board considers clemency for condemned man

ATLANTA (AP) — The state parole board is holding a clemency hearing for a Georgia prisoner scheduled for execution this week for the killing of an off-duty prison guard. Marion Wilson Jr. is scheduled to die Thursday. Wilson and Robert Earl Butts Jr. were convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the March 1996... Read More

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Marion Wilson Jr.

June 19, 2019

Jury deliberations begin in ‘branded women’ trial

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has begun deliberating at the trial of the former leader of an upstate New York self-help group that prosecutors say branded women. The deliberations in the case against Keith Raniere (rah-NEER’-ee) started Wednesday morning in federal court in Brooklyn. Prosecutors have told jurors that said the 58-year-old Raniere’s organization,... Read More

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Keith Raniere, NXIVM

June 18, 2019

Tension developing in Aretha Franklin will dispute

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A fight is emerging over whether a son of Aretha Franklin could be put in charge of the late singer’s estate after a 2014 handwritten will was found under cushions in her suburban Detroit home. Attorneys for the estate said in a court filing Monday that “there is no basis to... Read More

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Aretha Franklin

June 18, 2019

Man charged in Wright’s killing pleads guilty to gun charge

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man charged with killing former NBA player Lorenzen Wright pleaded guilty Monday to a separate gun charge. Billy Ray Turner entered his plea in a Memphis court before the scheduled start of his trial on charges of possessing a weapon as a convicted felon. Shelby County prosecutors say Turner... Read More

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Billy Ray Turner

Georgia preparing to execute man for 1996 killing

Newtown parents score a win in growing fight against hoaxers

Witness: Suspect in slaying tried to get her into his car

Photographer recounts facing Dallas gunman

Panel hears case on conditions for young migrants on border

PG&E to pay $1 billion to governments for wildfire damage

Wayne Newton tells Vegas jury he fired shot as burglars fled

Was dead militant war casualty or Navy SEAL’s murder victim?

$4.5M in settlements over deaths tied to doc in murder case

Delaware court revives Blue Bell Creameries shareholder suit

Georgia parole board considers clemency for condemned man

Jury deliberations begin in ‘branded women’ trial

Tension developing in Aretha Franklin will dispute

Man charged in Wright’s killing pleads guilty to gun charge

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