Sentencing set for man after guilty plea in family killings

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man is set to be sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to murdering his pregnant wife and their two young daughters and dumping their bodies on an oil work site. WATCH THE LIVE STREAM AT 12ET HERE. Christopher Watts pleaded guilty on Nov. 6 to three charges of murder in the... Read More

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Christopher Watts

November 19, 2018

Lawyer for WikiLeaks’ Assange says he would fight charges

WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not willingly travel to the United States to face charges filed under seal against him, one of his lawyers said, foreshadowing a possible fight over extradition for a central figure in the U.S. special counsel’s Russia-Trump investigation. Assange, who has taken cover in the Ecuadorian Embassy in... Read More

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Julian Assange

November 19, 2018

New black officers, court officials rethinking US policing

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Veteran Alabama law enforcement officer Mark Pettway grew up in a black neighborhood called “Dynamite Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan bombed so many houses there in the 1950s and ’60s. Now, after becoming the first black person elected sheriff in Birmingham – on the same day voters elected the community’s... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

November 19, 2018

Florida high school massacre panel considers recommendations

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The state commission investigating the Florida high school massacre began discussions Friday on what recommendations it will make regarding student safety, mental health and steps to prevent future school shootings. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Commission didn’t pass any specific recommendations Friday at its latest gathering to consider the Feb.... Read More

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Nikolas Cruz

November 16, 2018

Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in the 1970s, when their reign of terror was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, were convicted Friday by an international tribunal of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Nuon Chea and Khieu... Read More

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Nuon Chea

November 16, 2018

WikiLeaks chief could see charges, US court filing suggests

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department inadvertently named Julian Assange in a court filing in an unrelated case, suggesting prosecutors have prepared charges against the WikiLeaks founder under seal. Assange’s name appears twice in a recently-unsealed August court filing from a federal prosecutor in Virginia who was attempting to keep sealed a separate case involving... Read More

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Julian Assange

November 16, 2018

Arkansas man pleads not guilty to threatening Don Lemon

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) — A northern Arkansas man who allegedly made threatening phone calls to CNN anchor Don Lemon has pleaded not guilty. The Baxter Bulletin reports Benjamin Craig Matthews, 38, appeared in Baxter County Court Thursday . Matthews, who is from Mountain Home, about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of Little Rock, is... Read More

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Benjamin Craig Matthews, CNN, Don Lemon

November 16, 2018

Witness: El Chapo got police escort after escape

NEW YORK (AP) — When the notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was Mexico’s most-wanted fugitive in 2001 following a prison breakout, he was startled to see a police motorcycle pull in front of a car carrying him as it reached the outskirts of Mexico City. A loyal drug cartel lieutenant behind the wheel... Read More

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El Chapo

November 16, 2018

Ex-death row inmate who beat sex trafficking case arrested

HONOLULU (AP) — A day after Isaiah McCoy, a former death row inmate from Delaware, walked out of a U.S. courthouse in Hawaii a free man when prosecutors dropped sex trafficking charges against him, he found himself again in handcuffs. A judge ordered McCoy’s release Tuesday after prosecutors moved to dismiss a 10-count indictment against... Read More

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Isaiah McCoy

November 16, 2018

Utility asked last month to hike bills over California fires

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A utility facing severe financial pressure amid speculation its equipment may have sparked a deadly Northern California wildfire asked U.S. energy regulators last month for permission to raise its customers’ monthly bills to harden its system against wildfires and deliver a sizable increase in profits to shareholders. In an October filing... Read More

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PG&E

November 16, 2018

Former IRS employee in Georgia sentenced for identity theft

ATLANTA (AP) — A former employee for the Internal Revenue Service in Atlanta has been sentenced to two years in prison after she pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft. The U.S. Justice Department said in a news release that Stephanie Parker worked as a contact representative between September 2012 and March 2013. Prosecutors say on... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News

November 16, 2018

‘No remorse’: Judge sends teen shooter to juvenile detention

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy has shown no remorse for shooting his teacher and a classmate at his Indianapolis-area school, and he should be held at a state juvenile detention center until he is 18 or deemed rehabilitated, an Indiana judge ruled Wednesday. Hamilton County Circuit Court Judge Paul Felix rejected a request... Read More

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Noblesville West Middle School

November 16, 2018

Criticized deputy refuses to testify about school massacre

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — For months, members of the panel investigating Florida’s high school massacre have called the sheriff’s deputy assigned to guard the campus “a coward” for hiding and not rushing inside in an attempt to stop the shooter. Given an opportunity to confront his critics Thursday, now-retired Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson sent... Read More

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Stoneman Douglas High School

November 16, 2018

NRA sues to block new Washington gun-control measure

SEATTLE (AP) — Gun rights groups including the National Rifle Association on Thursday sued to block a new, voter-approved gun control measure from taking effect in Washington state. Initiative 1639 passed last week with 60 percent of the vote. It bars the sale of semi-automatic rifles to people under 21 and to people who don’t... Read More

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Gun Control, NRA

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Sentencing set for man after guilty plea in family killings

Lawyer for WikiLeaks’ Assange says he would fight charges

New black officers, court officials rethinking US policing

Florida high school massacre panel considers recommendations

Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms

WikiLeaks chief could see charges, US court filing suggests

Arkansas man pleads not guilty to threatening Don Lemon

Witness: El Chapo got police escort after escape

Ex-death row inmate who beat sex trafficking case arrested

Utility asked last month to hike bills over California fires

Former IRS employee in Georgia sentenced for identity theft

‘No remorse’: Judge sends teen shooter to juvenile detention

Criticized deputy refuses to testify about school massacre

NRA sues to block new Washington gun-control measure

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