Couple sentenced in trafficking involving disabled woman

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit couple has been sentenced after authorities say they hired out a woman with physical and mental disabilities for sex while forcing her to live in a shed. Forty-year-old Michael Welch and 32-year-old Misty George of Macomb Township were charged in 2017 with human trafficking and prostitution-related counts.... Read More

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May 17, 2019

Report: Ohio State leaders knew about team doctor’s abuse

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio State University team doctor who died years ago sexually abused at least 177 students over a period of decades so wantonly that students described his examinations as hazing — and their coaches, trainers, other team doctors and school leaders knew about it, according to an investigative report released Friday.... Read More

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Dr. Richard Strauss

May 16, 2019

Weiner visits his probation officer after halfway house exit

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Weiner met with his probation officer Wednesday, a day after the disgraced ex-congressman was released from a halfway house where he finished his sentence for having illegal contact with a 15-year-old girl. The 54-year-old Democrat did not comment as he left the Manhattan federal courthouse where the Probation Department is... Read More

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Anthony Weiner

May 16, 2019

Lawsuit: Bus driver was sick, tired before fatal Utah crash

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Greyhound driver who authorities say fell asleep before the bus careened off a road in the Utah desert two years ago was tired, sick and should never have been behind the wheel, according to a new lawsuit over the crash that killed one person and injured 12 others. Bus... Read More

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Greyhound

May 16, 2019

Medical examiner: Chokehold triggered Eric Garner’s death

NEW YORK (AP) — The medical examiner who performed an autopsy on Eric Garner testified Wednesday that a police officer’s chokehold set into motion “a lethal sequence of events,” but she said even a bear hug could’ve hastened his death given Garner’s fragile health. Hemorrhaging in Garner’s neck muscles was indicative a chokehold was used... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Law Enforcement, News

Daniel Pantaleo, Eric Garner

May 16, 2019

Video of man shoved off bus released in Vegas murder case

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas have released security video they say shows a woman shoving a 74-year-old man off a public bus after witnesses say he asked her to be nice to other passengers. The video shows Serge Fournier landing face-first on a sidewalk east of downtown on March 21. He died... Read More

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Cadesha Michelle Bishop

May 16, 2019

Woodstock 50 plans roll on; court nixes cancellation bid

NEW YORK (AP) — The Woodstock 50 festival is back on after a court rebuffed an ex-investor’s effort to cancel the anniversary extravaganza — but organizers will have to do without some $18 million, at least for now. Manhattan judge Barry Ostrager ruled Wednesday that the festival’s former chief backer, Amplifi Live, couldn’t singlehandedly call... Read More

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Woodstock 50

May 16, 2019

Police execute search warrant at Catholic Diocese of Dallas

DALLAS (AP) — Investigators who were “thwarted” during earlier investigations of child sexual abuse by priests on Wednesday searched the offices of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas to obtain evidence of sexual misconduct, according to a police commander and police records. Investigators searched the diocesan headquarters, a storage unit it uses and the offices of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Religion, Sexual Abuse

Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse

May 16, 2019

Defense seeks pause in Navy SEAL case while probing spying

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Attorneys for a Navy officer who supervised a SEAL accused of killing an Islamic State prisoner demanded prosecutors stop monitoring defense lawyer emails and put the case on hold, according to court documents obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. Lawyers for Lt. Jacob Portier also asked a judge to hold a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, National Security, News

Jacob Portier

May 16, 2019

Man convicted in 4 killings set for execution in Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of killing four people, including two young girls, in a dispute over a pickup truck is set for execution Thursday evening in Alabama. Michael Brandon Samra, 41, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the state prison at Atmore. Samra and a friend, Mark Duke, were convicted... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

Michael Brandon Samra

May 16, 2019

Man faces execution 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 is set for execution Thursday evening in Tennessee. Sixty-eight-year-old inmate Don Johnson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection for his conviction in the 1984 suffocation death of his wife, Connie Johnson. He initially... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

Don Johnson

May 16, 2019

Feds: US Supreme Court should turn down ‘Bridgegate’ appeal

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The U.S. solicitor general’s office has recommended that the U.S. Supreme Court not hear the appeal of two convicted defendants in the “Bridgegate” case, nudging the four-year legal saga of New Jersey’s most famous traffic jam toward a conclusion. “Further review is not warranted,” the brief filed late Wednesday said. The... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

Bill Baroni, Bridgegate, Bridget Kelly

May 16, 2019

Alabama governor invokes God in banning nearly all abortions

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s Republican governor has signed the nation’s strictest abortion ban into law, making performing an abortion a felony in nearly all cases, punishable by up to life in prison, and with no exceptions for rape and incest. Gov. Kay Ivey said the law she signed Wednesday is a testament to the... Read More

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Abortion, Alabama, Kay Ivey

May 16, 2019

5 states announce new suits over prescription opioids

CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) — Five state attorneys general have announced new lawsuits against the maker of OxyContin as they seek to hold the drug industry responsible for an opioid crisis. Filings were announced Thursday by officials in Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, West Virginia and Wisconsin. With the suits, 45 states are now taking legal action... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Opioids

Couple sentenced in trafficking involving disabled woman

Report: Ohio State leaders knew about team doctor’s abuse

Weiner visits his probation officer after halfway house exit

Lawsuit: Bus driver was sick, tired before fatal Utah crash

Medical examiner: Chokehold triggered Eric Garner’s death

Video of man shoved off bus released in Vegas murder case

Woodstock 50 plans roll on; court nixes cancellation bid

Police execute search warrant at Catholic Diocese of Dallas

Defense seeks pause in Navy SEAL case while probing spying

Man convicted in 4 killings set for execution in Alabama

Man faces execution for killing wife decades ago in Memphis

Feds: US Supreme Court should turn down ‘Bridgegate’ appeal

Alabama governor invokes God in banning nearly all abortions

5 states announce new suits over prescription opioids

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