South Carolina doesn’t have drugs for December execution

Disruptive Hawaii flight passenger sentenced to time served

HONOLULU (AP) — A Turkish man who said a hallucination about a butterfly caused him to disrupt a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu won’t receive additional jail time under terms of his sentence handed down Monday. Anil Uskanli was sentenced to the six months that he has spent locked up since the incident that... Read More

Airplane, Bomb Threat

Charles Manson used charm to turn youths into mass killers

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In summer 1969, a scruffy ex-convict with a magnetic hold on young women sent some of his disciples into the night to carry out a series of gruesome killings in Los Angeles. In so doing, Charles Manson became the leering face of evil on front pages across America and rewrote the... Read More

Charles Manson

Ex-Chicago officer who shot at teens gets 5-year sentence

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former Chicago police officer who was convicted of civil rights violations after he opened fire on a car full of teenagers to five years in prison on Monday, telling the officer that when he pulled the trigger 16 times he was acting more like a violent criminal... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Law Enforcement, News

Guns, Police

Attorneys filing Vegas shooting lawsuits with 450 plaintiffs

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Attorneys who filed one of the first lawsuits after the Oct. 1 mass shooting that killed 58 concert-goers and left hundreds injured on the Las Vegas Strip filed four new negligence cases Monday on behalf of more than 450 victims. This time, however, Houston-based lawyers Chad Pinkerton and Mo Aziz filed... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Las Vegas, Paddock, Shooting

Judge permanently blocks Trump sanctuary cities order

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick rejected the administration’s argument that the executive order applies only to a relatively small pot of money and said Trump cannot... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, National Security, News

Immigration

California balcony fall victims settle with building owner

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Relatives of six college students who died when a balcony collapsed in Berkeley, California, have reached a settlement with the owners of the apartment building and the company that managed it, it was announced Monday. Terms of the lawsuit settlement with owner BlackRock and management firm Greystar were confidential. The settlement... Read More

Berkeley

Epic antitrust fight looms for AT&T’s $85B Time Warner deal

NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department is suing AT&T to stop its $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, setting the stage for an epic legal battle with the telecom giant. It could also create a new headache for President Donald Trump, whose public statements have raised suspicions that he might have interfered with the... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, News

AT&T, Business, Time Warner

Trial wrapping up in case that sparked immigration debate

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jurors will consider dueling arguments Tuesday that either a homeless man killed a woman at a San Francisco pier by accident or while playing a sick game... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Immigration

Students seek $55M in damages, say dorms had toxic mold

SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — Five current and former students are seeking $55 million in damages in a lawsuit that says they were exposed to toxic mold while living in three dormitories at a South Carolina college. Multiple media outlets report the five have sued Morris College, a historically black liberal arts college in Sumter. They... Read More

College, Mold

Ex-student to face judge in body fluids contamination case

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former Connecticut college student is facing arraignment on allegations she smeared body fluids on her roommate’s belongings. Brianna Brochu is scheduled to appear Tuesday in Hartford Superior Court. She’s charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief and breach of peace. Prosecutors say they’re determining whether to add a hate crime charge. The... Read More

Bodily Fluids

Woman says she was harassed by New York state employee

NEW YORK (AP) — An upstate New York woman struggling to find a place to live and a job after ending an abusive relationship said a state employee helped her, only to use it as an excuse to sexually harass and assault her, and the governor’s office knew and did nothing to stop it, according... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics, Sexual Abuse

Politics, Sexual Abuse

Jurors return in trial of deputy accused of abusing girls

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A jury is scheduled to resume deliberations in the trial of a onetime “Deputy of the Year” who’s charged with sexually abusing three girls in Maine. Jurors began deliberating Friday in the trial of Kenneth Hatch. A judge sent them home for the weekend before getting back to work Monday. Prosecutors... Read More

Abuse, Child Abuse

Murder trial in Ohio firefighter’s arson death set to resume

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — Attorneys are ready to resume their defense of an Ohio homeowner and his nephew charged in a 2015 house arson that resulted in a firefighter’s death. Prosecutors say homeowner Lester Parker solicited nephew William “Billy” Tucker to set the fire that led to the death of Hamilton firefighter Patrick Wolterman. The... Read More