Suit: Apple slowed iPhones, forcing owners to buy new ones

CHICAGO (AP) — IPhone owners from several states sued Apple Inc. for not disclosing sooner that it issued software updates deliberately slowing older-model phones so aging batteries lasted longer, saying Apple’s silence led them to wrongly conclude that their only option was to buy newer, pricier iPhones. The allegations were in a lawsuit filed Thursday... Read More

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Apple, Technology

December 22, 2017

Bundys looking to clear charges, not start next land fight

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A mistrial marked a major step this week in favor of a family of ranchers accused of leading armed standoffs in two states to oppose U.S. control of vast stretches of land in the American West. But states’ rights activist Cliven Bundy and his sons Ryan and Ammon Bundy are not... Read More

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Cliven Bundy, Guns

December 22, 2017

Washington expands lawsuit against Comcast over service plan

SEATTLE (AP) — The state of Washington announced Thursday that it is expanding a lawsuit against cable and internet provider Comcast and accusing the company of discarding recorded customer service calls that the attorney general claims is evidence of the company’s alleged deceptive sales practices. Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said investigators uncovered more... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

December 22, 2017

Second federal judge blocks Trump contraception rules

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California faces potentially “dire” public health and financial consequences from new rules by the Trump administration allowing more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control, a federal judge said Thursday. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California, became the second federal judge in the country to... Read More

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Birth Control, Trump

December 22, 2017

USOC CEO apologizes, says he was unaware of Nassar abuse

The leader of the U.S. Olympic Committee says in a letter he was not aware of the Larry Nassar sex-abuse allegations before law enforcement got involved, and that he had no knowledge of a settlement between USA Gymnastics and 2012 Olympic champion McKayla Maroney in a case involving the now-imprisoned former team doctor. CEO Scott... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Doctors, News, Sexual Abuse, Sports

Nassar, Sexual Abuse

December 22, 2017

New York woman gets prison time for biting off man’s ear

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for biting off a man’s ear. Erie County District Attorney John Flynn says Chris Orgovan, of Buffalo, got into an argument with the man on June 11. He says she bit his right ear, detaching part of it. When... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Chris Orgovan

December 22, 2017

Girl gets 25 years in mental hospital in Slender Man case

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favor with a fictional horror character named Slender Man has been sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital, the maximum punishment possible. Anissa Weier, 16, pleaded guilty in August to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional... Read More

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Anissa Weier, Slender Man

December 21, 2017

Court: Charity stuck with fan payouts after holes-in-one

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Most golfers like short par 3s, but West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice probably wishes No. 18 at the Greenbrier Classic in 2015 was a little longer — 33 yards longer to be exact. In 2015, Justice’s charity promised fans at the 18th hole $100 for the first hole-in-one and $500 for... Read More

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Greenbrier

December 21, 2017

South Korea’s nut rage executive to avoid jail time

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The former Korean Air executive whose onboard “nut rage” tantrum delayed a flight in 2014 will avoid jail as South Korea’s top court upheld her suspended prison term on Thursday. Cho Hyun-ah, who is the daughter of the company’s chairman and was the head of the airline’s cabin service at... Read More

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Cho Hyun-ah

December 21, 2017

Woman with complaint against Fox’s Ailes settles case

NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer for a former Fox News contributor who sued the network for sexual harassment says she has settled her case. Julie Roginsky claimed her Fox career stalled after she rebuffed the advances of late Fox News chief Roger Ailes. A spokesman for her lawyer, Nancy Erika Smith, would give no... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Fox, Julie Roginsky, Sexual Abuse

December 21, 2017

Rapper XXXTentacion to be released on battery charges

MIAMI (AP) — The Florida-based rapper XXXTentacion will be released from a Miami jail on house arrest while awaiting trial on charges that he beat up his pregnant girlfriend and then tried to bribe her. The rapper’s attorney, David Bogenschutz, said Wednesday that a judge ordered the 19-year-old rapper to be released for 60 days.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Jahseh Onfroy, XXXTentacion

December 21, 2017

Suspect in bombing of Dortmund team bus goes on trial

BERLIN (AP) — A German man has gone on trial accused of bombing Borussia Dortmund’s bus in an attempt to profit from a dive in the soccer team’s shares. Dortmund defender Marc Bartra and a police officer were injured when three explosions hit the bus as it left for a Champions League game on April... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

International Justice Watch, Sergej W.

December 21, 2017

How the Catholic Church’s hierarchy makes it difficult to punish sexual abusers

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross (THE CONVERSATION) Cardinal Bernard Law died on Wednesday, Dec. 20, in Rome. Law was Archbishop of Boston, a position of prestige in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He had wide political connections, including... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Religion

Catholic Church

December 21, 2017

The Latest: Victim in Jewish threats case talks about terror

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of a former journalist who admitted cyber stalking an ex-girlfriend and terrorizing Jewish groups with bomb threats (all times local): 5:35 p.m. The stalking victim of a former St. Louis journalist sentenced in New York to five years in prison for bomb threats to Jewish centers... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Religion

Juan Thompson

Suit: Apple slowed iPhones, forcing owners to buy new ones

Bundys looking to clear charges, not start next land fight

Washington expands lawsuit against Comcast over service plan

Second federal judge blocks Trump contraception rules

USOC CEO apologizes, says he was unaware of Nassar abuse

New York woman gets prison time for biting off man’s ear

Girl gets 25 years in mental hospital in Slender Man case

Court: Charity stuck with fan payouts after holes-in-one

South Korea’s nut rage executive to avoid jail time

Woman with complaint against Fox’s Ailes settles case

Rapper XXXTentacion to be released on battery charges

Suspect in bombing of Dortmund team bus goes on trial

How the Catholic Church’s hierarchy makes it difficult to punish sexual abusers

The Latest: Victim in Jewish threats case talks about terror

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