Esports shooting survivor tells story, files lawsuit

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Jacob Mitich had made it to Round Two of the Madden NFL 19 tournament in Jacksonville, and had almost scored a touchdown when the shots rang out. Vaulting over a table, he scrambled to exit the crowded room. At first he ran outside to the waterfront where he and friends... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News, Technology

August 31, 2018

NCAA finds no rules violations in Nassar scandal

The NCAA cleared Michigan State University of any rules infractions in the Larry Nassar sexual-assault scandal, the school announced Thursday. The school released a letter from Jonathan Duncan, the NCAA’s vice president for enforcement, that addressed the Nassar case, as well as an investigation into how the university has handled allegations involving football and men’s... Read More

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Larry Nassar, NCAA

August 31, 2018

Ex-Massachusetts state trooper pleads not guilty in OT case

BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts State Police lieutenant charged with getting paid for overtime shifts he either didn’t work or didn’t complete has pleaded not guilty. David Wilson appeared in federal court in Boston on Thursday to answer to a charge of embezzlement from an agency receiving federal funding. Prosecutors say the 57-year-old Wilson,... Read More

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David Wilson

August 31, 2018

Judge denies Alex Jones effort to dismiss Sandy Hook lawsuit

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge has denied conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ request to dismiss a lawsuit surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that he has called a hoax. The Infowars host is being sued for defamation in Texas by the parents of a 6-year-old who was among the 20 children and six... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Alex Jones

August 31, 2018

Government accuses Harvard of ‘outright racial balancing’

WASHINGTON (AP) — In its latest push to end the use of race in college admissions, the Trump administration on Thursday accused Harvard University of “engaging in outright racial balancing” and sided with Asian-American students who allege the Ivy League school discriminated against them. Harvard denied the bias claim and said it would defend the... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Race

Harvard, Racial Balancing

August 31, 2018

Canada court halts Pacific pipeline in blow to Trudeau

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday halted the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that would nearly triple the flow of oil from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific Coast — a setback that comes just as the government is buying the project. The court ordered the country’s National Energy Board... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, International Justice Watch, News

Pacific Pipeline

August 31, 2018

Man charged with making death threats over Trump editorials

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man upset about The Boston Globe’s coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media was arrested Thursday on charges he threatened to kill the newspaper’s journalists, who he called an “enemy of the people,” federal prosecutors said. Robert Chain’s phone calls to the Boston... Read More

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Donald Trump, Robert Chain

August 31, 2018

Judge blocks Saturday’s grizzly hunts in Wyoming, Idaho

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the opening of the first public grizzly bear hunts in Wyoming and Idaho in more than 40 years, as he considers whether the government was wrong to lift federal protections on the animals. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen’s order came just two days before... Read More

Animals, Criminal Justice News, News

Grizzly Bear

August 31, 2018

Dallas police group head: Convicted officer held accountable

DALLAS (AP) — The head of Dallas’ oldest and largest police employee organization said Thursday that good officers want bad ones off the streets and that a former suburban officer convicted in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager was held accountable. Roy Oliver, who is white, fired into a car filled with black... Read More

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Roy Oliver

August 31, 2018

Harrowing account of tortured teen sparks outcry in Morocco

OULAD AYAD, Morocco (AP) — The mother of a 17-year-old Moroccan girl who told police she was gang-raped, forcibly tattooed and held against her will for two months recalled how her daughter was dumped at the family’s home by two men, the scars of horror stamped on her body, “her honor lost.” The harrowing case... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

August 31, 2018

Chicago officer’s interview before trial sparks legal fight

CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys prosecuting a white Chicago police officer in the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager asked a judge Thursday to revoke or increase his bail after the officer discussed one of the nation’s most infamous police shootings in a media interview. Jason Van Dyke’s interview with the Chicago Tribune took place... Read More

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Jason Van Dyke

August 30, 2018

Brad Pitt foundation faces lawsuit over New Orleans homes

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An attorney plans to sue actor Brad Pitt’s foundation over the degradation of homes built in an area of New Orleans that was among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. Ron Austin tells WWL-TV he plans to bring a lawsuit on behalf of some Lower Ninth Ward residents against Pitt’s Make... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Brad Pitt, Make It Right

August 30, 2018

Congo rebel on trial at ICC denies involvement in atrocities

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A rebel militia leader known as “The Terminator” denied involvement in atrocities in Congo as his three-year trial at the International Criminal Court ended Thursday and judges began considering their verdicts. “I am a revolutionary but I am not a criminal,” Bosco Ntaganda told the three-judge panel. Ntaganda faces a... Read More

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Bosco Ntaganda

August 30, 2018

Police: Mother says she hid daughter’s body in duffel bag

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 29-year-old Las Vegas mother of four told police she hid her 3-year-old daughter’s lifeless body in a duffel bag in her apartment closet almost 19 hours before calling 911 and reporting the girl missing, according to a police report obtained Tuesday. Aisha Yvonne Thomas told detectives she hit her daughter... Read More

Bad Parenting, Criminal Justice News, News

Aisha Yvonne Thomas

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Esports shooting survivor tells story, files lawsuit

NCAA finds no rules violations in Nassar scandal

Ex-Massachusetts state trooper pleads not guilty in OT case

Judge denies Alex Jones effort to dismiss Sandy Hook lawsuit

Government accuses Harvard of ‘outright racial balancing’

Canada court halts Pacific pipeline in blow to Trudeau

Man charged with making death threats over Trump editorials

Judge blocks Saturday’s grizzly hunts in Wyoming, Idaho

Dallas police group head: Convicted officer held accountable

Harrowing account of tortured teen sparks outcry in Morocco

Chicago officer’s interview before trial sparks legal fight

Brad Pitt foundation faces lawsuit over New Orleans homes

Congo rebel on trial at ICC denies involvement in atrocities

Police: Mother says she hid daughter’s body in duffel bag

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