WASHINGTON (AP) — A defiant Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Congress on Tuesday he never lied under oath about Russian interference in the 2016 election... Read More
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Neighbors said filthy children regularly climbed into trash bins and scavenged for food behind the West Texas house where 11 children lived with their parents. Other residents heard screaming at night — one described “shrieks of terror” — that were quickly followed by loud music to cover the sounds. “It never... Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — A once-prominent Orthodox rabbi who pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping nude women at a Jewish ritual bath in Washington was given a lawful penalty when a judge sentenced him to approximately 6 ½ years in prison, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
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PRINEVILLE, Oregon (AP) — The noise in the tiny jail, built decades ago to house firefighting equipment, is constant. Voices bounce off the walls. Nothing dissipates the dank smell. There's no natural light. Fluorescent bulbs give the green walls a sickly hue. Read More
CHICAGO (AP) Six purported leaders of the Hobos street gang went on trial Wednesday in a case that is expected to provide a rare look inside the criminal activity fueling gun violence in the nation’s third-largest city. Prosecutors say the defendants murdered, maimed and tortured their way into controlling the most lucrative drug markets on... Read More
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida woman accused of killing her 9-week-old infant has committed suicide in a Sarasota jail. Read More
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man considered a person of interest in his ex-girlfriend's 2007 disappearance and now charged with burning another missing Missouri woman's car spent time in jail for assaulting his pregnant then-girlfriend in 2011, police and court records show. Read More
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A British man pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. federal court to trying to grab a police officer's gun and open fire at a June campaign rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump in Las Vegas. Read More
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman testified that he was driving to a doctor's appointment when he noticed he was being pursued by a vehicle whose driver later pulled up, exchanged words and fired one gunshot at him that missed. Read More
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man has been sentenced to 235 years in prison for sexually exploiting two children to make child pornography. Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Online review site Yelp's star rating system does not make it responsible for negative reviews of businesses because it is based on user input, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, dismissing a libel lawsuit filed against Yelp by a Washington state locksmith company owner. Read More
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A second attempt at jury selection in the trial of a metro Atlanta man charged with killing his toddler son began Monday, at a new courthouse 275 miles (440 kilometers) from the suburban parking lot where the child died in the back seat of a hot SUV. Read More
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey appeals court on Friday threw out the 15-count conviction of a former Rutgers University student whose roommate killed himself after being captured on a webcam kissing another man. Read More
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — The second of two young Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill a classmate to please horror character Slender Man entered Friday a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to an attempted homicide charge. The 14-year-old girl changed her previous not-guilty plea during a 15-minute proceeding... Read More
