Jury focuses on Cosby’s star witness; his lawyers face heat

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jurors in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial are kicking off a second day of deliberations by revisiting the testimony of a star defense witness who said accuser Andrea Constand once spoke of framing a prominent person to score a big payday. The seven men and five women will have Marguerite Jackson’s... Read More

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Bill Cosby

April 25, 2018

Ex-Yahoo paying $35M to settle SEC charges over 2014 hack

WASHINGTON (AP) — The company formerly known as Yahoo is paying a $35 million fine to resolve federal regulators’ charges that the online pioneer deceived investors by failing to disclose one of the biggest data breaches in internet history. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the action Tuesday against the company, which is now called... Read More

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Yahoo

April 25, 2018

Lawsuit says man spent 18 days in prisoner transport van

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Edward Kovari’s 18-day ordeal began Sept. 12, 2016, when some guys in a van showed up to take him from a jail in Virginia to Texas, where he was wanted on charges that he had stolen a car. But the trip from Winchester, Virginia, to Houston took more than two weeks... Read More

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Edward Kovari

April 25, 2018

‘Cocaine cowboy’ on the run 26 years set to be sentenced

MIAMI (AP) — A quarter century after he vanished, a man dubbed the last of Miami’s “cocaine cowboys” is being sentenced for a drug trafficking conviction. A hearing is set Wednesday for 56-year-old Gustavo Falcon. He disappeared in 1991 when he was indicted along with his older brother and others for their roles in a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Gustavo Falcon

April 25, 2018

Fort Worth gang member to die for killing girl, grandmother

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys for a prisoner sentenced to death for killing a 5-year-old girl and her grandmother in a gang-related shooting at a 9th birthday party in Fort Worth have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, which is scheduled for Wednesday. Erick Davila faces lethal injection for using a laser-sighted... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Erick Davila

April 25, 2018

Man who tried to get Trump’s tax information awaits sentence

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana private investigator faces a possible prison sentence for misusing Donald Trump’s Social Security number in repeated attempts to access the president’s federal tax information before his 2016 election. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles is scheduled to sentence 32-year-old Jordan Hamlett on Wednesday. Hamlett faces a maximum sentence of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Donald Trump, Jodan Hamlett

April 25, 2018

Man accused of taking teen girl to Mexico facing trial

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 45-year-old Pennsylvania man charged with taking a 16-year-old girl to Mexico without her parents’ knowledge is facing trial after waiving his right to a preliminary hearing. LehighValleyLive.com reports Kevin Esterly waived the hearing Tuesday and now awaits trial on charges including custodial interference. Esterly and the teenager were found in... Read More

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Kevin Esterly

April 25, 2018

Investigators: School design contributed to massacre

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (AP) — Faulty classroom design and failures in the police radio and 911 systems contributed to the chaos and deaths during the recent Florida high school massacre, a commission investigating the shooting was told at its first meeting Tuesday. Broward Sheriff’s Office Detective Zachary Scott told the Marjory Stoneman High School Public... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Nikolas Cruz

April 25, 2018

Man who disarmed Waffle House shooter hailed by lawmakers

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man who snatched an AR-15 rifle away from a gunman at a Nashville restaurant told Tennessee lawmakers Tuesday he faced “the true test of a man,” drawing a standing ovation during his brief address. As the House hailed him as a hero, James Shaw Jr. said he acted to save... Read More

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Travis Reinking

April 25, 2018

Online post suggests rampage suspect may have resented women

TORONTO (AP) — The suspect in the deadly van attack in Toronto posted a chilling Facebook message just minutes before plowing into a crowded city sidewalk, authorities said Tuesday, raising the possibility that he may have nursed grudges against women — a possible echo of a 1989 massacre of 14 women that remains one of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

Alek Minassian

April 25, 2018

Meek Mill attends NBA playoff game after prison release

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia-born rapper Meek Mill attended an NBA playoff game in his first public appearance since being released from prison while he appeals decade-old gun and drug convictions. Following a five-month campaign by his supporters to get him out, the state Supreme Court on Tuesday directed a Philadelphia judge who had jailed him... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Meek Mill

April 25, 2018

Jury to deliberate after Cosby painted as predator, victim

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jurors at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial are poised to start deliberating after a marathon day of closing arguments that portrayed the comedian both as a calculating predator who’s finally being brought to justice and the victim of a multimillion-dollar frame-up by a “pathological liar.” The seven men and five women... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Bill Cosby

April 25, 2018

Judge deals big setback to Trump on ‘Dreamers’ program

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration must resume a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation but gave it 90 days to restate its arguments before his order takes effect. The ruling by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates in Washington, if it survives... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

DACA

April 25, 2018

Danish inventor convicted of reporter’s murder, gets life

Copenhagen City Court Judge Anette Burkoe said she and two jurors unanimously decided Wall’s death was a murder, finding Madsen also guilty of sexual assault and the defilement of a corpse. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish submarine inventor Peter Madsen was found guilty Wednesday of torturing and murdering Swedish reporter Kim Wall before dismembering her... Read More

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Kim Wall, Peter Madsen

Jury focuses on Cosby’s star witness; his lawyers face heat

Ex-Yahoo paying $35M to settle SEC charges over 2014 hack

Lawsuit says man spent 18 days in prisoner transport van

‘Cocaine cowboy’ on the run 26 years set to be sentenced

Fort Worth gang member to die for killing girl, grandmother

Man who tried to get Trump’s tax information awaits sentence

Man accused of taking teen girl to Mexico facing trial

Investigators: School design contributed to massacre

Man who disarmed Waffle House shooter hailed by lawmakers

Online post suggests rampage suspect may have resented women

Meek Mill attends NBA playoff game after prison release

Jury to deliberate after Cosby painted as predator, victim

Judge deals big setback to Trump on ‘Dreamers’ program

Danish inventor convicted of reporter’s murder, gets life

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