Parents of killed college student not focused on motive

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The parents of a University of Pennsylvania student found stabbed and buried in a California park said Thursday they’re not focused on potential motives for the killing or any suggestions their son was attacked because he was gay. A former high school classmate was charged Wednesday with murder in the... Read More

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Blaze Bernstein

January 18, 2018

Ex-Ataris bassist indicted, accused of telemarketing fraud

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The former bassist of the rock band The Ataris awaits arraignment after he and a woman were indicted on federal conspiracy and fraud charges. Michael Sean Davenport was arrested last month at a Little Rock, Arkansas, airport on a warrant issued by a southern Illinois federal court accusing him of... Read More

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Fraud, Michael Sean Davenport

January 18, 2018

Terrorist screening lawsuit by CAIR backs 5 Muslim Americans

DALLAS (AP) — A civil rights group has filed a court challenge to the federal government’s Terrorist Screening Database, alleging it stigmatizes its targets without due process. The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Dallas on behalf of five Muslim American citizens. In a statement, the group says the... Read More

Criminal Justice News, National Security, News

CAIR

January 18, 2018

Officials: Inmate serving life sentence jumps to his death

CAMP HILL, Pa. (AP) — Officials say an inmate serving a life sentence for a 1989 murder jumped to his death from the second floor of a housing unit at a Pennsylvania prison. Prison officials said Wednesday that 70-year-old James Bailey died Monday of injuries suffered at the State Correctional Institute at Camp Hill. He... Read More

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James Bailey

January 18, 2018

Officer guilty of threatening to release nude pics of ex

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury in Florida took just 20 minutes to find an officer who threatened to send nude photos of his former girlfriend to their colleagues on their police force guilty of extortion. The SunSentinel reports jurors decided Wednesday that James Krey, 40, threatened to release the photos and a sex video unless... Read More

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James Krey

January 18, 2018

‘Cocaine cowboys’ smuggler convicted in auto fraud case

MIAMI (AP) — A pilot who once smuggled tons of drugs for Colombian cartels during Miami’s “cocaine cowboys” era in the 1980s was convicted Wednesday of playing a key role in an auto fraud ring that stole at least 150 cars using a fake paper trail. A federal jury found Mickey Munday, 72, guilty of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Mickey Munday

January 17, 2018

Wave of lawsuits filed to block net-neutrality repeal

NEW YORK (AP) — The expected wave of litigation against the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net-neutrality rules has begun. A group of attorneys general for 21 states and the District of Columbia sued Tuesday to block the rules. So did Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, public-interest group Free Press and New America’s... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Technology

Net Neutrality

January 17, 2018

Young Hong Kong activist Wong gets second prison term

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court sentenced democracy activist Joshua Wong to three months in prison Wednesday for contempt, his second prison term stemming from his role in the 2014 “Umbrella Movement” protests. The 21-year-old Wong and another defendant were immediately taken into custody at Hong Kong’s High Court, while 14 others, including... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

Hong Kong, Joshua Wong

January 17, 2018

UK citizens ask Dutch court to protect post-Brexit EU rights

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A group of British citizens who live in the Netherlands went to a Dutch court Wednesday in a bid to retain their EU citizenship rights after Britain completes its divorce from the bloc, but lawyers for the Dutch state dismissed their case as a legal fiction. In a case that could have... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

January 17, 2018

Man who fled Hawaii psychiatric hospital pleads not guilty

HONOLULU (AP) — A man who escaped from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital and flew to California will stay behind bars instead of going back to the facility he was sent after being acquitted by reason of insanity for a woman’s 1979 killing, his attorney said Tuesday. Attorney Michael Green said Randall Saito’s family does not... Read More

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Randall Saito

January 17, 2018

9 face hazing charges in death of Florida State pledge

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Nine men are facing hazing charges in connection with the death of a Florida State University fraternity pledge, police said Tuesday. The Tallahassee Police Department said in an emailed release that arrest warrants were signed earlier in the day by a Leon County judge for Luke E. Kluttz and Clayton M.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Florida State University, FSU, Hazing

January 17, 2018

Landlord in fatal fire again due to file brief in appeal

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A landlord who was convicted of code violations stemming from Maine’s deadliest fire in decades is due to file a brief in his appeals case. Gregory Nisbet was convicted following the November 2014 fire that killed six people in Portland. He appealed his conviction to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, and... Read More

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Fire, Gregory Nisbet, Maine

January 17, 2018

Ex-doctor’s victims recount sex abuse as young gymnasts

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One after one, gymnasts and other victims of a disgraced former sports doctor stepped forward in a Michigan courtroom Tuesday to recount the sexual abuse and emotional trauma he inflicted on them as children, including one who warned that girls eventually “grow into strong women that return to destroy your world.”... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Doctors, News, Sexual Abuse, Sports

Larry Nassar

January 17, 2018

California couple’s ordinary home held torture chamber

PERRIS, Calif. (AP) — From the outside, the brown-and-beige four-bedroom home looked fairly orderly. Inside, it was a veritable torture chamber for 13 siblings who lived with their parents, police said. The couple who owned the home purchased it new in 2014 and soon arrived in the rapidly growing city 70 miles (113 kilometers) southeast... Read More

Bad Parenting, Criminal Justice News, News

David Allen Turpin, Louise Anna Turpin

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Parents of killed college student not focused on motive

Ex-Ataris bassist indicted, accused of telemarketing fraud

Terrorist screening lawsuit by CAIR backs 5 Muslim Americans

Officials: Inmate serving life sentence jumps to his death

Officer guilty of threatening to release nude pics of ex

‘Cocaine cowboys’ smuggler convicted in auto fraud case

Wave of lawsuits filed to block net-neutrality repeal

Young Hong Kong activist Wong gets second prison term

UK citizens ask Dutch court to protect post-Brexit EU rights

Man who fled Hawaii psychiatric hospital pleads not guilty

9 face hazing charges in death of Florida State pledge

Landlord in fatal fire again due to file brief in appeal

Ex-doctor’s victims recount sex abuse as young gymnasts

California couple’s ordinary home held torture chamber

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