Meatpacking plant owner pleads guilty after immigration raid

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The owner of a Tennessee meatpacking plant where a federal immigration raid took more than 100 people into custody faces prison time after pleading guilty to employing unauthorized immigrants. The U.S. attorney’s office in Greeneville says 61-year-old James Brantley pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax fraud, wire fraud, and employment of unauthorized... Read More

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Immigration

September 13, 2018

Planned Parenthood picks Chinese-born doctor as new leader

NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese immigrant who fled her native country when she was 8 was named Wednesday as Planned Parenthood’s new president, the first doctor to hold the post in five decades. Dr. Leana Wen will assume the role Nov. 12, six days after midterm elections in which Planned Parenthood’s political wing plans... Read More

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Planned Parenthood

September 13, 2018

New Mexico sues mobile app makers over kid privacy concerns

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is suing Google, Twitter and other companies that develop and market mobile gaming apps for children, saying the apps violate state and federal laws by collecting personal information that could compromise privacy. The lawsuit filed in federal court late Tuesday comes as data-sharing concerns persist among users. Social media... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Technology

Apps, Google, Twitter

September 13, 2018

Video shows Weinstein’s hands-on encounter with rape accuser

NEW YORK (AP) — A video of Harvey Weinstein aired on television Wednesday showing him boldly propositioning a woman who later accused him of rape and repeatedly touching her and stroking her arm and back during what was supposed to have been a business meeting. Melissa Thompson, who sued Weinstein in June, said she made... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Harvey Weinstein, Melissa Thompson

September 13, 2018

Judge orders compound suspects remain in federal custody

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered five former residents of a ramshackle New Mexico compound to remain jailed amid accusations that a woman in the group declared herself a prophet while her partner helped train children for potential attacks on schools, law enforcement agencies and other institutions. The ruling came a... Read More

Bad Parenting, Criminal Justice News, News

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj

September 12, 2018

Peru court gives ex-rebel leader life sentence for car bomb

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian court convicted and gave a second life sentence to imprisoned Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman on Tuesday for a 1992 car bombing in the capital that killed 25 people and injured 155. The 83-year-old Guzman is already serving a life sentence for a 1983 massacre in an Andean village.... Read More

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Abimael Guzman

September 12, 2018

Cosby wants judge to step down days before sentencing

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby wants a Pennsylvania judge to step down from his case days before sentencing on sex assault charges. A defense motion Tuesday accuses Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill of having a longtime grudge against a key witness in a 2016 pretrial hearing. The witness, ex-prosecutor Bruce Castor, says he declined... Read More

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Bill Cosby

September 12, 2018

NHL in mediation on concussion lawsuit

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman downplayed the significance of entering mediation with former players in a bid to settle a concussion lawsuit, saying Tuesday the league is simply following a judge’s order. “The judge asked us to go into mediation and so we’re complying with the judge’s request,” Bettman told The Associated... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sports

Gary Betteman, NHL

September 12, 2018

Judge orders trial for Wisconsin’s Cephus

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on hearing in case of Wisconsin football player (all times local): 3 p.m. A judge has ordered Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus to stand trial on charges that he sexually assaulted two drunken women this spring. Dane County Circuit Judge Jill Karofsky on Tuesday rejected a motion from his attorneys... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sports

Quintez Cephus

September 12, 2018

Dealer pleads guilty to helping cheat casino out of $1M

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A man who worked as a baccarat dealer at a Maryland casino pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping players cheat the casino out of just over $1 million in exchange for a share of the proceeds. Ming Zhang of Alexandria, Virginia, faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison following... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News

Ming Zhang

September 12, 2018

Prisons chief: Supplier error got Nevada its execution drugs

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s prisons chief testified Tuesday that after more than 200 drug companies refused to supply drugs for use in an execution, a supplier’s mistake on a buyers’ list gave the state an opening to obtain a sedative that officials want to use in a twice-postponed lethal injection. Under questioning by drug... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

Nevada

September 12, 2018

Jury selection in officer’s trial to resume after day off

CHICAGO (AP) — Jury selection is expected to resume in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke after the effort was called off for a day due to a scheduling conflict for the judge. Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald, a black teenager, 16 times in 2014. The questioning of prospective jurors is... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Law Enforcement, News

Jason Van Dyke, Laquan McDonald

September 12, 2018

Residents of New Mexico compound indicted on federal charges

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Five residents of a ramshackle desert compound in New Mexico are scheduled for arraignments and detention hearings after being indicted by a federal grand jury on firearms and conspiracy charges. Federal prosecutors say the group was preparing for violent attacks on government, military, educational and financial institutions at the time of... Read More

Bad Parenting, Criminal Justice News, News

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj

September 12, 2018

US judge strikes down California ban on handgun ads

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge on Tuesday struck down a nearly century-old California law that banned handgun ads at gun shops, saying the state failed to show it would prevent suicides or crime. The 1923 law banned any handgun ads at gun shops that were visible from outside the store. State officials argued... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

California, Guns, Handguns

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Meatpacking plant owner pleads guilty after immigration raid

Planned Parenthood picks Chinese-born doctor as new leader

New Mexico sues mobile app makers over kid privacy concerns

Video shows Weinstein’s hands-on encounter with rape accuser

Judge orders compound suspects remain in federal custody

Peru court gives ex-rebel leader life sentence for car bomb

Cosby wants judge to step down days before sentencing

NHL in mediation on concussion lawsuit

Judge orders trial for Wisconsin’s Cephus

Dealer pleads guilty to helping cheat casino out of $1M

Prisons chief: Supplier error got Nevada its execution drugs

Jury selection in officer’s trial to resume after day off

Residents of New Mexico compound indicted on federal charges

US judge strikes down California ban on handgun ads

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