A 3rd parent pleads guilty in college admissions scheme

BOSTON (AP) — A California executive who pleaded guilty to charges that he paid $400,000 in bribes to get his son into Georgetown University has been fired. Stephen Semprevivo pleaded guilty Tuesday in Boston federal court. He is the third parent to plead guilty in the vast college admissions bribery scheme. Authorities say Semprevivo gave... Read More

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Admissions Scheme

May 8, 2019

Witness testifies on secret society’s ‘sex slave’ initiation

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman testified on Tuesday that shortly after being recruited for a secret “master-slave” society within an upstate New York self-help group she got a disturbing message from her handler: It was her turn to “seduce” the group’s leader, Keith Raniere. The witness at Raniere’s trial at federal court in Manhattan... Read More

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Keith Raniere, NXIVM

May 8, 2019

Officer mourned; suspect’s mother says son was troubled

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Residents in a Mississippi Gulf Coast city continued on Tuesday to mourn the death of a longtime officer who authorities said was gunned down by a man whose mental health had, according to his mother, been sliding in recent months. A local NAACP leader said the man had threatened to shoot... Read More

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Robert McKeithen

May 8, 2019

Opponents of Georgia abortion ban promise court challenge

ATLANTA (AP) — Opponents of a Georgia law banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected vow to take their fight from the state Capitol to the courthouse. Signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, the measure is one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws and would effectively ban the procedure around six... Read More

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Abortion

May 8, 2019

Momentum builds in Oregon to require unanimous jury verdicts

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — After a jury convicted an Oregon man of having sex with a passed-out partygoer, one of the jurors left the courthouse and wept. Cash Spencer and three other jurors believed the defendant was innocent, but after a lunch break, one changed her mind. Hours later, another changed her vote to guilty,... Read More

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Olan Williams

May 7, 2019

Man freed after 30 years pleads not guilty to rape charge

SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man freed from prison after serving three decades for a rape he says he did not commit pleaded not guilty Monday to new rape charges. George Perrot, 50, was held without bail after a hearing in Essex Superior Court in connection with the allegation that he raped a woman... Read More

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George Perrot

May 7, 2019

Lawyer: Driver in wrong-way crash that killed 5 was insane

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man charged with killing five teenagers in a wrong-way crash almost three years ago was psychotic and delusional at the time and thus legally insane, his lawyer argued Monday during opening statements in his client’s murder trial. The lawyer for Steven Bourgoin acknowledged his client was driving the vehicle... Read More

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Steven Bourgoin

May 7, 2019

Trial to determine if government liable for Harvey flooding

HOUSTON (AP) — Residents seeking compensation after their Houston-area homes and businesses were flooded by two federally owned reservoirs during Hurricane Harvey say authorities knew for decades that such an inundation was inevitable but did nothing to prevent it, an attorney for the property owners said in court Monday. The two-week trial will focus on... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

May 7, 2019

NYC jury begins deliberations at college hoops bribery trial

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury began deliberating on Monday at the trial of a business manager and another defendant accused of secretly bribing assistant college basketball coaches. The deliberations in federal court in Manhattan followed closing arguments by lawyers for Christian Dawkins and youth basketball coach Merl Code, who deny conspiring to pay off... Read More

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Christian Dawkins

May 7, 2019

Would-be bomber gets 16-year term; judge cites mental health

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday handed an Illinois man a 16-year prison sentence for trying to kill hundreds of people by detonating what he thought was a car bomb outside a crowded Chicago bar, saying she factored in Adel Daoud’s mental health in imposing a sentence much lower than prosecutors requested. The... Read More

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Adel Daoud

May 7, 2019

Witness dies before testifying in fatal warehouse fire trial

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A key witness scheduled to testify this week in the involuntary manslaughter trial involving a Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people has died in a car crash, prosecutors told a judge Monday. Alameda County prosecutors had planned to call Robert Jacobitz to testify this week in the trial of... Read More

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Ghost Ship

May 7, 2019

Trial opens in sex-trafficking case against self-help guru

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City jury is set to hear opening statements and testimony at the sex-trafficking case against a self-help guru. The trial beginning Tuesday is expected to feature testimony from women who claim that they were forced to have sex with Keith Raniere. He’s the former leader of an upstate... Read More

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Keith Raniere, NXIVM

May 7, 2019

Court to hear appeal to reinstate lawsuit in church massacre

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Survivors and family members of nine people killed in a racist attack at a South Carolina church are asking a federal appeals court to reinstate their lawsuit. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit filed against the federal government over a faulty... Read More

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Dylann Roof

May 7, 2019

Judge to weigh freeing Coast Guard officer called terrorist

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal magistrate judge may decide Tuesday whether to order the release of a Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling weapons and drafting a hit list of prominent Democrats and network TV journalists. Prosecutors have portrayed 50-year-old Christopher Hasson as a domestic terrorist and a racist extremist intent on carrying out... Read More

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Christopher Hasson

A 3rd parent pleads guilty in college admissions scheme

Witness testifies on secret society’s ‘sex slave’ initiation

Officer mourned; suspect’s mother says son was troubled

Opponents of Georgia abortion ban promise court challenge

Momentum builds in Oregon to require unanimous jury verdicts

Man freed after 30 years pleads not guilty to rape charge

Lawyer: Driver in wrong-way crash that killed 5 was insane

Trial to determine if government liable for Harvey flooding

NYC jury begins deliberations at college hoops bribery trial

Would-be bomber gets 16-year term; judge cites mental health

Witness dies before testifying in fatal warehouse fire trial

Trial opens in sex-trafficking case against self-help guru

Court to hear appeal to reinstate lawsuit in church massacre

Judge to weigh freeing Coast Guard officer called terrorist

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