Elder care homes rake in profits as workers earn a pittance

She alights from a black Ferrari convertible, her Christian Louboutin stilettos glinting in the sunlight. The lid of her black lacquer grand piano is propped open in the living room of her plush Beverly Hills home. “I own a chain of elderly care facilities,” she says into the camera on Bravo’s reality television show “The... Read More

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May 20, 2019

Tribes, environmentalists battle copper mine in Arizona

SONOITA, Ariz. (AP) — Scenic State Highway 83 gently curves through southeastern Arizona’s wine country, past waves of blond grass dotted with orange-tipped ocotillo plants before the dark Santa Rita Mountains loom into view. The Milepost 44 pullout offers a panorama of the range in the Coronado National Forest where a Canadian firm wants to... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

May 20, 2019

Closing arguments expected in deadly wrong-way crash trial

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Closing arguments are expected in the trial of a Vermont man facing murder charges in the deaths of five teenagers after he drove the wrong way on Interstate 89. The closing arguments are expected Monday after a two-week trial. The attorneys for 38-year-old Steven Bourgoin acknowledge he was driving the pickup... Read More

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Steven Bourgoin

May 20, 2019

Rape trial starting for ex-NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Kellen Winslow Jr., a former NFL No. 1 draft pick and son of a Hall of Famer who starred for his hometown San Diego Chargers, goes on trial Monday on multiple charges, including raping two women last year and the 2003 rape of an unconscious 17-year-old girl. The 35-year-old was once... Read More

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Kellen Winslow Jr.

May 20, 2019

The Latest: State: Suspect aimed to kill white churchgoers

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of man charged in a 2017 Tennessee church shooting (all times local): 10:45 a.m. A prosecutor says a black man charged with fatally shooting a woman and wounding seven people at a Nashville church aimed to kill at least 10 white churchgoers and cited a 2015... Read More

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Emanuel Kidega Samson

May 20, 2019

Man gets life in shooting deaths of 3 inside Detroit eatery

DETROIT (AP) — A man convicted in the fatal shootings of three other men inside a Detroit fast food restaurant has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Thirty-year-old William Wilbourn-Little of Detroit was given the mandatory punishment on Monday after earlier being convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and two gun charges.... Read More

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William Wilbourn-Little

May 17, 2019

Chelsea Manning sent back to jail for refusing to testify

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was ordered back to jail Thursday for refusing to testify to a grand jury, even after telling a judge she’d rather “starve to death” than cooperate with prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga ordered her to remain incarcerated at the Alexandria jail either until she... Read More

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Chelsea Manning

May 17, 2019

Navy SEAL gets year in brig for hazing death of Green Beret

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Navy SEAL was sentenced to one year in military prison on Thursday for his role in the 2017 hazing-related death of a U.S. Army Green Beret in Africa. Adam Matthews is the first of four U.S. service members to face military court proceedings as well as punishment for the... Read More

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May 17, 2019

Mueller probe lawyer does jury duty stint in NYC

NEW YORK (AP) — One of Robert Mueller’s top lieutenants in the special counsel’s pressure-cooker probe embroiling President Donald Trump has returned to private life only to get a more mundane and unexpected legal assignment: Juror in a slip-and-fall case. Andrew Weissmann was picked for a New York City jury at a civil trial where... Read More

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May 17, 2019

Man in country illegally charged with 11 murders in Texas

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas man previously arrested in the death of an 81-year-old woman has been charged with killing at least 11 more elderly women whose jewelry and other valuables he stole, authorities said Thursday. Kim Leach, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County district attorney’s office, said 46-year-old Billy Chemirmir was indicted Tuesday on... Read More

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Billy Chemirmir

May 17, 2019

Man executed for killing wife decades ago in Memphis

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his wife decades ago at a camping center he managed in Memphis prayed and sang hymns as he was put to death Thursday in Tennessee. Don Johnson, 68, was executed via lethal injection inside a maximum-security Nashville prison for the 1984 suffocation of his wife, Connie... Read More

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Don Johnson

May 17, 2019

MGM might pay $800 million in Las Vegas shooting settlement

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino giant MGM Resorts told federal regulators Thursday it might pay up to $800 million to settle liability lawsuits stemming from the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas — the deadliest in modern U.S. history. “The company believes it is reasonably possible that a settlement will be reached” by next May,... Read More

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MGM

May 17, 2019

Courts weigh Trump’s plan to tap Pentagon for border wall

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving fast to spend billions of dollars to build a wall on the Mexican border with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, but he first must get past the courts. On Friday, a federal judge in Oakland, California, will consider arguments in two cases... Read More

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May 17, 2019

Folau fired by Rugby Australia for contentious online posts

Israel Folau’s status as the unrivaled star of Australian rugby wasn’t enough to save his job in the wake of a social media post that condemned gay people and other so-called sinners to eternal damnation. Rugby Australia on Friday terminated Folau’s four-year contract, 10 days after an independent panel found the 30-year-old fullback guilty of... Read More

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Elder care homes rake in profits as workers earn a pittance

Tribes, environmentalists battle copper mine in Arizona

Closing arguments expected in deadly wrong-way crash trial

Rape trial starting for ex-NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr.

The Latest: State: Suspect aimed to kill white churchgoers

Man gets life in shooting deaths of 3 inside Detroit eatery

Chelsea Manning sent back to jail for refusing to testify

Navy SEAL gets year in brig for hazing death of Green Beret

Mueller probe lawyer does jury duty stint in NYC

Man in country illegally charged with 11 murders in Texas

Man executed for killing wife decades ago in Memphis

MGM might pay $800 million in Las Vegas shooting settlement

Courts weigh Trump’s plan to tap Pentagon for border wall

Folau fired by Rugby Australia for contentious online posts

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