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Potential legal woes mount after ‘Rust’ shooting tragedy
Potential legal woes mount after ‘Rust’ shooting tragedy

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin the actor, who pulled the trigger on a prop gun while filming “Rust” in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director, likely won’t be held criminally or civilly liable for the tragedy.   But Alec Baldwin the producer might be, along with several others in […] More

October 26, 2021

‘Groveland Four’ charges could be dropped 70 years later
‘Groveland Four’ charges could be dropped 70 years later

A local prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four young African American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago in what is considered one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Jim Crow-era Florida. More

October 26, 2021

Judge in Chauvin trial to release names of jurors on Nov. 1
Judge in Chauvin trial to release names of jurors on Nov. 1

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge who oversaw the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin said Monday that he will make the names of 15 jurors and alternates who sat in the courtroom public next week. Judge Peter Cahill’s order said he will make the list of jurors public on Nov. 1. The […] More

October 25, 2021

North Carolina man identified as victim of John Wayne Gacy
North Carolina man identified as victim of John Wayne Gacy

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — When the discovery of more than two dozen bodies stashed under John Wayne Gacy’s house near Chicago was making headlines all over the world in the late 1970s, Francis Wayne Alexander’s family in North Carolina didn’t think much of it. The way they saw it, Alexander had […] More

October 25, 2021