Autopsy gives no insight on motive in Vegas mass shooting

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The much anticipated autopsy report on Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock did nothing to help explain why he carried out the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history — his body didn’t hold diseases or drugs or other substances that could have caused aggressive behavior. In fact, it showed he was a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Las Vegas, Stephen Paddock

February 12, 2018

Ex-hostage wants British IS kidnappers put on trial in UK

LONDON (AP) — Former Islamic State hostages and families of the group’s victims are urging Britain and the United States to put two recently captured extremists on trial, arguing that denying them justice will fuel the hatred and violence they supported. French journalist Nicolas Henin, who was held by the men and their comrades for... Read More

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IS, Isis

February 12, 2018

Attorney general suit: Weinstein Co. failed to protect women

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general is accusing Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein of “repeatedly and persistently” sexually harassing female employees at his film company, according to a lawsuit filed on Sunday by the state prosecutor that could impact the company’s potential sale. “As alleged in our complaint, The Weinstein Company repeatedly broke... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Harvey Weinstein

February 9, 2018

Man facing deportation from Kansas gets temporary stay

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — An adjunct chemistry instructor living in Kansas who was arrested last week by immigration officials and faced imminent deportation to Bangladesh has been granted a temporary stay of removal but that doesn’t mean he will be allowed to stay in the U.S., his attorney said Thursday. Syed Ahmed Jamal, 55, a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, National Security, News

Syed Ahmed Jamal

February 9, 2018

88-year-old man who tried to kill wife with hammer sentenced

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An 88-year-old man who tried to kill his wife with a hammer at her New York nursing home has been sentenced to six months in jail. Martin Turkiewicz (TURK’-uh-witz) told a judge on Thursday he wanted to end his wife’s suffering from dementia. The Cheektowaga (cheek-tuh-WAH’-guh) resident walked into the room... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Martin Turkiewicz

February 9, 2018

Prosecutor: Man in US illegally meant to kill deputies

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man who came to the U.S. illegally had “nothing but hate” when he killed two California sheriff’s deputies, prosecutors said in closing arguments Thursday in a case that has helped fuel the national debate on immigration. Authorities say defendant Luis Bracamontes intentionally shot Sacramento County Deputy Danny Oliver in 2014... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Immigration, News

Luis Bracamontes

February 9, 2018

18 states, coal group, US Chamber want ash order overturned

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Eighteen states, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, national coal industry interests and more than a dozen other groups are urging an appeals court to overturn a coal ash cleanup order at a federal utility’s Tennessee plant, contending the decision will have wide-reaching, expensive consequences. In a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

Coal, Environment

February 9, 2018

Defense exposes misdeed by witness in trial of ex-Cuomo aide

NEW YORK (AP) — The government’s star witness in the bribery trial of a former top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was bracing for a scolding from prosecutors as he left the witness stand Thursday after admitting that his proclivity to tell lies did not end when he promised not to commit... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News, Politics

Joseph Percoco, Mario Cuomo

February 9, 2018

Judge hears testimony on pipeline’s environmental impact

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge heard testimony Thursday that construction of a crude oil pipeline in a Louisiana swamp is tearing down irreplaceable, centuries-old trees, destroying animal habitats and jeopardizing fishermen’s livelihoods. But the company building the Bayou Bridge pipeline though the heart of Cajun country insists that governmental regulators issued a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

Alaska Pipeline, Environment

February 9, 2018

Suspect in scholar kidnapping asks judge to recuse himself

CHICAGO (AP) — Lawyers for a former physics student accused of kidnapping and killing a 26-year-old University of Illinois scholar from China say they want the judge overseeing the death-penalty case to recuse himself, though they don’t spell out why in newly filed public records. In documents filed Wednesday in federal court in central Illinois,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Brendt Christensen

February 9, 2018

Trump faces legal challenge on border wall with Mexico

SAN DIEGO (AP) — An Indiana-born federal judge, whose Mexican heritage Donald Trump used to paint him as biased against him in a 2016 court case because of his immigration stance, will hear arguments in a lawsuit that could block construction of a border wall with Mexico. Judge Gonzalo Curiel will hear arguments Friday on... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Border Wall, Mexico, Trump

February 9, 2018

Man sentenced in connection with $20M found in box spring

BOSTON (AP) — A Brazilian man arrested in connection with the discovery of about $20 million cash hidden inside a box spring in a Massachusetts apartment has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison. Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in October to money laundering charges. The money was... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Finance, Fraud, News

Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha

February 9, 2018

Trial for Paris attack suspect Abdeslam hints at deadly plan

PARIS (AP) — The weapons stockpile in his hideout and the Islamic State fighter covering his getaway with a spray of gunfire were signs of a deadly plot to come, a Belgian prosecutor argued Thursday in the trial of the man who was once Europe’s most wanted fugitive. Salah Abdeslam refused to attend the final... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

Paris attack, Salah Abdeslam, Terrorism

February 9, 2018

Jury deliberates in Baltimore police corruption case

BALTIMORE (AP) — Jurors started deliberating Thursday in a case involving one of the worst U.S. police corruption scandals in recent memory after hearing nearly three weeks of testimony from drug dealers, a crooked bail bondsman and disgraced Baltimore detectives who detailed astonishing levels of police misconduct. The two detectives on trial face robbery, extortion... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, Law Enforcement, News

Baltimore

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Autopsy gives no insight on motive in Vegas mass shooting

Ex-hostage wants British IS kidnappers put on trial in UK

Attorney general suit: Weinstein Co. failed to protect women

Man facing deportation from Kansas gets temporary stay

88-year-old man who tried to kill wife with hammer sentenced

Prosecutor: Man in US illegally meant to kill deputies

18 states, coal group, US Chamber want ash order overturned

Defense exposes misdeed by witness in trial of ex-Cuomo aide

Judge hears testimony on pipeline’s environmental impact

Suspect in scholar kidnapping asks judge to recuse himself

Trump faces legal challenge on border wall with Mexico

Man sentenced in connection with $20M found in box spring

Trial for Paris attack suspect Abdeslam hints at deadly plan

Jury deliberates in Baltimore police corruption case

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