In or out? Court case on job bias casts pall on LGBT fests

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — National Coming Out Day festivities were tempered this year by anxiety that some LGBT folk may have to go back into the closet so they can make a living, depending on what the Supreme Court decides about workplace discrimination law. But the mere fact that words like “transgender” are being uttered before... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Orientation

October 14, 2019

Serial stowaway remains jailed after latest airport arrest

CHICAGO (AP) — A 67-year-old woman with a history of sneaking onto flights without a ticket will remain jailed after the latest incident in which police say she tried to get past security at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Marilyn Hartman was arrested Friday night and later charged with felony criminal trespass. A judge on... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

October 14, 2019

Law gives child sex assault victims more time to file suits

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse more time to decide whether to file lawsuits, joining several states in expanding the statute of limitations for victims over warnings from school districts that the new rules could bankrupt them. The law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom gives victims of childhood... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

October 14, 2019

High court to consider state role in prosecuting immigrants

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Donaldo Morales caught a break when federal prosecutors declined to charge him after he was arrested for using a fake Social Security card so he could work at a Kansas restaurant. But the break was short-lived. Kansas authorities stepped in and obtained a state conviction that could lead to Morales’s deportation.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

October 11, 2019

Suspect in rapper Mac Miller’s drug death pleads not guilty

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man charged with selling rapper Mac Miller the drugs that killed him last year pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles. Cameron Pettit stood alongside his attorney and spoke only to answer a judge’s questions as he entered the plea. Prosecutor allege that Pettit, 28, of West... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Cameron Pettit, Mac Miller

October 11, 2019

Man gets 100 years in prison for killing, dismembering woman

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man convicted of killing and dismembering a woman was sentenced to at least 100 years in prison Thursday after the victim’s mother carrying her daughter’s cremains shouted at him: “You threw her out like trash.” Jared Chance, 30, had turned down a plea deal that would have made... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Jared Chance

October 11, 2019

Florida jury ponders fate of 2 in law professor’s slaying

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida jury on Thursday began deliberating the fates of a man and woman facing murder charges in the killing of a Florida State University law professor who was entangled in a messy divorce and bitter child custody battle when he was gunned down five years ago in his garage. During... Read More

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Katherine Magbanua, Sigfredo Garcia

October 11, 2019

Uber driver not guilty in death of passenger in Denver

DENVER (AP) — A jury on Thursday found an Uber driver not guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of a passenger he said attacked him while driving on a freeway in Denver. Jurors sided with Michael Hancock, 31, who argued that he was defending himself against passenger Hyun (Huhn) Kim. About four hours after... Read More

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Michael Hancock, Uber

October 11, 2019

El Paso mass shooting suspect pleads not guilty in 22 deaths

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The 21-year-old man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, pleaded not guilty Thursday during a brief initial hearing. Police have said Patrick Crusius of Dallas confessed to the Aug. 3 mass shooting and that he targeted Mexicans. Some... Read More

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Patrick Crusius

October 11, 2019

Judge to hear arguments on stopping suits against Sacklers

How much members of the Sackler family should be held accountable for the role their company, Purdue Pharma, played in the nation’s opioid crisis will be at the center of a hearing Friday in federal bankruptcy court. State attorneys general are evenly divided over whether to accept terms offered by Purdue to settle some 2,600... Read More

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Purdue Pharma, Sacklers

October 11, 2019

Judge to examine failure to disclose video in terror case

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge will hold a hearing Tuesday over the FBI’s failure to turn over surveillance footage to an Arizona man until three years after he was convicted of providing guns to two friends who launched a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas. Attorneys for Abdul Malik Abdul... Read More

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Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem

October 11, 2019

Documentary highlights rape allegations at Louisiana jail

At least a half-dozen women told authorities that deputies raped and trafficked them to male inmates inside a long-troubled jail in southwestern Louisiana, according to newly unearthed state and FBI records. The records offer a harrowing account of sexual assault being traded as currency in a contraband ring that pervaded the Jefferson Davis Parish jail.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Necole Jean Guillory

October 11, 2019

Jury selection in newspaper shooting case to be discussed

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A judge and attorneys in the case of a man charged with killing five people at a Maryland newspaper are to discuss questions potential jurors will be asked during jury selection. A pretrial hearing is planned Friday in the case of Jarrod Ramos, whose murder trial is scheduled for next month.... Read More

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Jarrod Ramos

October 11, 2019

Maryland man sentenced for $396 million Ponzi scheme

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Maryland man to 22 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy in a $396 million investment scheme that stole from people as far as Singapore. The judge handed down the sentence for 54-year-old Kevin B. Merrill on Thursday. The day before, Amanda Merrill admitted in a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News

Kevin B. Merrill

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In or out? Court case on job bias casts pall on LGBT fests

Serial stowaway remains jailed after latest airport arrest

Law gives child sex assault victims more time to file suits

High court to consider state role in prosecuting immigrants

Suspect in rapper Mac Miller’s drug death pleads not guilty

Man gets 100 years in prison for killing, dismembering woman

Florida jury ponders fate of 2 in law professor’s slaying

Uber driver not guilty in death of passenger in Denver

El Paso mass shooting suspect pleads not guilty in 22 deaths

Judge to hear arguments on stopping suits against Sacklers

Judge to examine failure to disclose video in terror case

Documentary highlights rape allegations at Louisiana jail

Jury selection in newspaper shooting case to be discussed

Maryland man sentenced for $396 million Ponzi scheme

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