RICHMOND, Va. – A newly released court document describes what former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell would have said had she testified in her husband’s public corruption case. The affidavit from her lawyer says she would have testified that she hid vitamin executive Jonnie Williams’ gifts from her husband because …
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BOSTON – Jury summonses have been flying, police have been deploying and the news media has been scrambling like seldom before as two highly anticipated criminal trials get underway almost simultaneously in Massachusetts. Jury selection in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev began Jan. …
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Four death-row inmates who are suing Ohio officials over a new state law that shields the names of companies providing lethal injection drugs want a federal court to prevent the rules from taking effect in March. Attorneys for the inmates filed the motion in federal court in …
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NEW YORK – Ocwen Financial said Thursday that it doesn’t anticipate any material fines, penalties or settlements coming from pending state examinations into alleged misconduct. Company shares rose more than 14 percent in afternoon trading. Ocwen recently reached settlements with New York and California regulators. The states were part of …
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LODGE GRASS, Mont. – State livestock officials are among several agencies investigating after up to two dozen horses were shot dead and dumped in a hay field about a mile west of Lodge Grass on the Crow Indian Reservation. Residents looking for their missing horses recently found the dead animals, …
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MINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis man has been ordered detained after authorities say he threatened law enforcement officers after six other men were arrested for allegedly trying to join the Islamic State group in Syria. Nineteen-year-old Mahamed Abukar Said is charged with one count of impeding and retaliating against a federal …
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WASHINGTON – Transit officials in Washington have temporarily suspended all issue-oriented advertisements on the region’s rail and bus system. The move comes as the agency was asked to consider an ad with a provocative cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s board of directors voted Thursday …
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The third of four inmates who escaped from a dilapidated jail in Georgia nearly a month ago has been captured, authorities said Sunday. Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, 37, was found inside a home in the 3000 block of Alpine Drive in Augusta just after 8 a.m., the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office …
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David DePape, the suspect who admitted this week to striking Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer after breakinginto his former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s residence in San Francisco last year, was found guilty of assault and kidnapping Thursday. A jury convicted DePape of attempted kidnapping of a federal …
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The widower of the 73-year-old woman who was killed in a deadly carjacking last year in New Orleans, is suing the parents of the teenagers responsible for the victim’s death. Linda Frickey was killed during a March 2022 carjacking after four teenagers dragged the woman behind her own vehicle, severing …
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