Judge: Honduran mother can’t be deported without daughter

HOUSTON (AP) — A judge on Monday ordered the U.S. government not to deport a Honduran woman, whose lawyers worry about her being separated from her 15-year-old daughter who has been detained with her for six months. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued the temporary restraining order at the request of the woman’s lawyers, who... Read More

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Immigration

December 27, 2018

Nissan American exec Greg Kelly released on bail in Japan

TOKYO (AP) — Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly was released from detention in Japan on Tuesday after being granted bail over the alleged underreporting of his boss Carlos Ghosn’s pay. The late-night release of Kelly, who is American, followed the Tokyo District Court’s approval earlier in the day of a bail request filed last... Read More

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Greg Kelly, Nissan

December 27, 2018

Indian casinos across US wary of betting on sports books

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two dozen large-screen TVs showing football and other sports line the walls. There’s beer on tap, bar top seating and leather chairs. Chicken wings are on the menu. And at this American Indian casino in the heart of college-football mad Mississippi, you can legally bet on the games. The sports book... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sports

December 27, 2018

Pope Francis’ early blind spot on sex abuse threatens legacy

VATICAN CITY (AP) — It has been a wretched year for Pope Francis, whose blind spot on clergy sex abuse conspired with events beyond his control to threaten his legacy and throw the Catholic hierarchy into a credibility crisis not seen in modern times. The latest development — a high-profile verdict in a far-away country... Read More

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Catholic Church

December 26, 2018

FBI concerned by money mules roped into fraud schemes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The email caught the executive at a small Connecticut company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company’s owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor. It wasn’t until that night when the executive, hours after the money had been wired and... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News

December 26, 2018

Prep school graduate begins jail time for 2014 sex assault

BOSCAWEN, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire prep school graduate convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate reported to jail Wednesday to begin serving the remaining 10 months of his jail sentence. Twenty-three-year-old Owen Labrie turned himself into the Merrimack County jail Wednesday morning, a little over a week after a judge refused to shorten... Read More

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Owen Labrie

December 26, 2018

Kevin Spacey is charged with groping a young man

BOSTON (AP) — Kevin Spacey has been charged with groping the 18-year-old son of a Boston TV anchor in 2016 — the first criminal case brought against the Oscar-winning actor since his career collapsed amid a string of sexual misconduct allegations over a year ago. Spacey, 59, is due in court Jan. 7 on the... Read More

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Kevin Spacey

December 26, 2018

North Korea ordered to pay parents, estate of student $500M

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died shortly after being released from that country. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell harshly condemned North Korea for “barbaric mistreatment” of Warmbier in... Read More

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North Korea, Otto Warmbier

December 21, 2018

Top Mississippi state lawmaker charged with 2nd offense DUI

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A top Mississippi state senator has been charged with drunken driving after authorities said his truck went into a ditch. State Senate President Pro Tem Terry Burton was found uninjured Wednesday night by a Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper near Starkville, authorities said. Burton was taken to jail and charged with DUI... Read More

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Terry Burton

December 21, 2018

Man says he found gun that led Chicago cops to train tracks

CHICAGO (AP) — A man who fired a gun that prompted two Chicago police officers to investigate on train tracks where they were struck and killed by a commuter train told detectives he’d found the weapon in an alley and took it to a remote area to see if it worked, police and prosecutors said... Read More

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Edward Brown

December 21, 2018

Ex-Illinois judge gets year in prison for mortgage fraud

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Illinois judge convicted of mortgage fraud has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Former Cook County Circuit Judge Jessica O’Brien sobbed loudly in court Thursday before U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin handed down the sentence. O’Brien was convicted of fraudulently obtaining mortgages for Chicago investment properties... Read More

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Judge Jessica O'Brien

December 21, 2018

Idaho Catholic priest sentenced to 25 years for child porn

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest who possessed more than 2,500 images of what investigators called the most disturbing child pornography they had ever seen has been sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole. The Rev. W. Thomas Faucher pleaded guilty to five felonies including possessing and distributing child pornography and a... Read More

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Father William Thomas Faucher

December 21, 2018

Wisconsin police say no charges in explosion that killed 1

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) — Miscommunication and an improperly marked gas main were to blame for an explosion last summer that killed a Wisconsin firefighter, injured 11 other people and leveled a city block, authorities said Thursday in announcing that no one would face charges. The July 10 blast that rocked downtown Sun Prairie happened... Read More

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December 21, 2018

Polish statue, subject of international flap, won’t be moved

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A Polish memorial statue that was at the center of a trans-Atlantic debate when a New Jersey mayor proposed moving it from its waterfront location will stay put. Jersey City’s council voted early Thursday to keep the Katyn memorial where it has stood for more than 25 years. The Jersey... Read More

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Judge: Honduran mother can’t be deported without daughter

Nissan American exec Greg Kelly released on bail in Japan

Indian casinos across US wary of betting on sports books

Pope Francis’ early blind spot on sex abuse threatens legacy

FBI concerned by money mules roped into fraud schemes

Prep school graduate begins jail time for 2014 sex assault

Kevin Spacey is charged with groping a young man

North Korea ordered to pay parents, estate of student $500M

Top Mississippi state lawmaker charged with 2nd offense DUI

Man says he found gun that led Chicago cops to train tracks

Ex-Illinois judge gets year in prison for mortgage fraud

Idaho Catholic priest sentenced to 25 years for child porn

Wisconsin police say no charges in explosion that killed 1

Polish statue, subject of international flap, won’t be moved

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