Jury selection on docket in Detroit-area body parts trial

DETROIT (AP) — Jury selection is starting in the trial of a Detroit-area man who is charged with dealing diseased body parts. Arthur Rathburn rented out body parts for medical or dental training, a legitimate business. But he’s charged with covering up the fact that the parts had tested positive for hepatitis B and HIV.... Read More

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Arthur Rathburn

January 4, 2018

Judge weighs whether NC schools conspired to depress wages

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge will have to decide whether two elite North Carolina universities had a cozy agreement not to compete by hiring away medical talent from the hospital and education enterprises each have built. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles is expected to hear arguments Thursday in Greensboro on a radiology professor’s... Read More

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Danielle Seaman

January 4, 2018

Michigan couple to be sentenced in deaths of 5 immigrants

DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers for a Michigan couple who owned a home where five immigrants died say the fire was a tragic accident that doesn’t justify years in prison. Roger Tam and his wife, Ada Mei Lei, are returning to federal court Thursday. A teenager and four men from Mexico were in the U.S. illegally... Read More

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Ada Mei Lei, Fire, Roger Tam

January 4, 2018

Washington sues Motel 6 for giving guest information to US

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington’s attorney general sued Motel 6 on Wednesday, alleging the national budget chain disclosed the private information of thousands of its guests to U.S. immigration authorities in violation of the state consumer protection law. Attorney General Bob Ferguson said motel employees divulged the names, birthdates, driver’s license numbers, license plate numbers and... Read More

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Immigration, Motel 6

January 4, 2018

New charges brought in Honolulu corruption case

HONOLULU (AP) — The deputy city prosecutor wife of a Honolulu police chief convinced a man whose trust she allegedly stole from when he was a child to lie for her before a grand jury looking into corruption allegations against the couple, according to court documents filed Wednesday. The documents charge Ransen Taito with conspiracy,... Read More

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Ransen Taito

January 4, 2018

Foreign fishermen settle human trafficking suit

Two Indonesian fishermen who say they were enslaved on an American fishing boat have settled their lawsuit against the vessel’s owner seven years after escaping and receiving special U.S. visas as victims of human trafficking, their lawyers told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The attorneys said Sorihin, who uses just one name, and Abdul Fatah... Read More

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Abdul Fatah, Sorihin

January 4, 2018

Conductor, passenger injured in deadly Amtrak crash sue

SEATTLE (AP) — A conductor injured when a speeding Amtrak train flew off the tracks and onto a Washington state highway last month, killing three and injuring dozens, filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming the rail company failed to provide a safe work environment. Garrick Freeman, who was in the front of the train with the... Read More

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Amtrak

January 3, 2018

Noerdlinger son to sue, alleging Bergen County prosecutors mislead grand jury in manslaughter indictment

Lawyers for the son of a former City Hall aide said they will sue a New Jersey prosecutor for misconduct, and accused her of withholding evidence from the grand jury when she secured a manslaughter charge against their client. Khari Noerdlinger, 21, whose mother, Rachel, was a top aide to Mayor de Blasio’s wife, was... Read More

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Khari Noerdlinger

January 3, 2018

Vice puts top execs on leave after sexual misconduct claims

Vice Media on Tuesday suspended two top executives over sexual harassment claims at the millennial news producer. President Andrew Creighton and Chief Digital Officer Mike Germano are on leave, the company said in an internal e-mail that unveiled sweeping new measures Shane Smith’s company is taking to combat reports of widespread sexual harassment and a... Read More

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Sexual Abuse, Vice

January 3, 2018

NBC sued after Michelle Obama’s guest gets axed

Michelle Obama wasn’t able to save a veteran from NBCUniversal’s tight security, according to a new lawsuit obtained by Page Six. Greg Duncan filed a suit against NBCUniversal on Dec. 29, 2017, after he alleges he was booted from a taping of “The Voice” on May 2, 2016. He claims he was banned from the... Read More

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NBC, NBCUniversal, The Voice

January 3, 2018

Arizona coach fired after sexual harassment allegations

Arizona fired Rich Rodriguez on Tuesday night, six days after the Wildcats finished the season with a loss in the Foster Farms Bowl. That Rodriguez was the subject of a workplace misconduct allegation became public knowledge shortly before the school announced it had “parted ways” with the coach, according to a USA Today report. “After... Read More

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Rich Rodriguez, University of Arizona

January 3, 2018

House speaker who resigned over harassment claim reconsiders

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s House speaker, who said he was resigning from his leadership post two months ago after acknowledging he secretly settled a sexual harassment claim with a female legislative aide, is now having second thoughts, sowing confusing about who’s in charge as lawmakers reconvene. As the legislature opened its 2018 session Tuesday,... Read More

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Jeff Hoover, Sexual Abuse

January 3, 2018

Prosecutor: 4 slain in shore town were shot at close range

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy shot his parents, his sister and a family friend multiple times at close range on New Year’s Eve in a bloodbath that somehow avoided claiming the lives of three people who escaped the house unharmed, prosecutors said Tuesday as they revealed more details about the killings. The teenager,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Shooting

January 3, 2018

Court won’t rehear defamation case against Bill Cosby

BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court won’t rehear a defamation lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby by a woman who said he raped her decades ago. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently denied Kathrine McKee’s request for a full-court hearing. A three-judge panel of the court had ruled against her in October. The... Read More

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Bill Cosby

Jury selection on docket in Detroit-area body parts trial

Judge weighs whether NC schools conspired to depress wages

Michigan couple to be sentenced in deaths of 5 immigrants

Washington sues Motel 6 for giving guest information to US

New charges brought in Honolulu corruption case

Foreign fishermen settle human trafficking suit

Conductor, passenger injured in deadly Amtrak crash sue

Noerdlinger son to sue, alleging Bergen County prosecutors mislead grand jury in manslaughter indictment

Vice puts top execs on leave after sexual misconduct claims

NBC sued after Michelle Obama’s guest gets axed

Arizona coach fired after sexual harassment allegations

House speaker who resigned over harassment claim reconsiders

Prosecutor: 4 slain in shore town were shot at close range

Court won’t rehear defamation case against Bill Cosby

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