Judge denies defense request in newspaper shooting case

Family sues Nashville, officer for $30M in fatal shooting

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of a black man killed by a Nashville police officer filed a federal lawsuit Monday, naming the city and the white officer who fatally shot the man from behind as he ran with a gun. Attorney Joy Kimbrough said the suit filed in federal court in Nashville seeks $30... Read More

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Andrew Dekle

Feds accuse vice officer of forcing women into sex

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A longtime police officer forced women to have sex with him under threat of an arrest, pressured others to help cover up crimes, and lied to federal investigators when he said he’d never had sex with prostitutes, according to charges unveiled Monday. Columbus vice squad Officer Andrew Mitchell, 55, was arrested... Read More

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Andrew Mitchell

$12M award after funeral home lost woman’s cremated remains

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The daughter of an Alabama woman whose cremated remains were lost by a funeral home has been awarded $12 million. Al.com reports the jury verdict was announced Monday after Pine Crest Funeral Home in Mobile lost the remains of Shelley Hood’s mother, Cecille Howard Taylor Gardner. Although Hood’s mother died in... Read More

Lawsuit: Boy’s foot crushed on Universal Studios’ E.T. ride

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A lawsuit claims an 11-year-old boy visiting from Brazil had his foot and leg crushed at the end of the E.T. Adventure ride at Universal Studios in Orlando. The Orlando Sentinel reports the boy’s mother Roberta Perez sued in Orange County Circuit Court and seeks at least $15,000 in damages. Attorney... Read More

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Appeals court to hear Native American child welfare case

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A federal law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving Native American children is facing the most significant legal challenge since it was enacted more than 40 years ago. A federal judge in Texas ruled the Indian Child Welfare Act is unconstitutional, saying it... Read More

Antwon Rose II, Michael Rosfeld

Jury to be picked for police killing of unarmed black teen

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jury selection begins Tuesday in a Harrisburg courtroom in the case of a white police officer accused of shooting to death an unarmed black teen in western Pennsylvania last summer. The jurors will be taken to Allegheny County for the trial next week of Michael Rosfeld, a former East Pittsburgh Police... Read More

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Google paid former exec $35 million after harassment claim

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google paid former search executive Amit Singhal $35 million in an exit package when he was reportedly forced to resign after a sexual assault investigation, according to court documents released Monday. Details of the exit package were revealed as part of a shareholder lawsuit against the company, one that followed a... Read More

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Amit Singhal

Musk’s lawyers say tweet complied with SEC fraud settlement

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk should not be found in contempt of court because he has complied with the terms of a securities fraud settlement, his attorneys wrote in documents filed Monday night with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Musk’s lawyers wrote that a Feb. 19 tweet merely restated prior disclosures on... Read More

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Elon Musk

Judge’s ruling revives questions about Russian man’s death

WASHINGTON (AP) — On a foggy November morning in 2015, a heavily intoxicated man showed up before dawn at the Dupont Circle Hotel, forked over $1,200 cash for a ninth-floor penthouse suite and kept drinking. His bender continued all day. By the next morning, he was dead. Authorities concluded that he died of blunt force... Read More

Mikhail Lesin

Kansas doctor sentenced to life in prison for patient death

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas doctor was sentenced to life in prison Friday for unlawfully prescribing medication blamed for an overdose death, the latest prosecution in a government crackdown on physicians amid an opioid epidemic. Steven R. Henson was immediately taken into custody following sentencing. There was an audible gasp in the packed courtroom... Read More

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Steven R. Henson

Jurors find Watkins, son guilty in fraud trial

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A jury on Friday convicted an Alabama attorney and his son of defrauding investors and a bank out of millions of dollars after a trial that featured testimony from a string of high-profile athletes and political figures. Donald Watkins Sr. was convicted of bank fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy after more... Read More

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Donald Watkins

Oklahoma judge denies delay requests in opioid lawsuit

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has denied a request by 13 pharmaceutical companies to delay the state’s lawsuit accusing them of fraudulently marketing drugs that have fueled the opioid crisis. The Oklahoman reports that Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman rejected the motion Friday and says “the wheels of justice will continue to... Read More

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Jury selection scheduled at NY slain runner retrial

NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection is expected to start Tuesday at the retrial of a man accused of killing a runner near her family’s New York City home. Chanel (shuh-NEHL’) Lewis was accused of killing 30-year-old Karina Vetrano as she ran on a park trail in Howard Beach, Queens, in August 2016. Prosecutors say... Read More