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Intense weekend search fails to locate woman’s body
Intense weekend search fails to locate woman’s body

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — Searchers from around Michigan are pledging to return to the Battle Creek area to look for the body of a woman who disappeared in late June.   Two people have been charged in Amber Griffin’s apparent death, including a man who was a boyfriend. About 30 volunteers worked together Sunday, […] More

July 13, 2020

In libel case, Depp says Heard hit him with ‘haymaker’ punch
In libel case, Depp says Heard hit him with ‘haymaker’ punch

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Johnny Depp accused Amber Heard of hitting him with a “haymaker” punch during an altercation near the end of their volatile marriage, as the star wrapped up testimony in his libel suit against a tabloid newspaper that accused him of domestic abuse. Depp said the fight came […] More

July 13, 2020

Ghislaine Maxwell seeks jail release in Epstein abuse case
Ghislaine Maxwell seeks jail release in Epstein abuse case

By TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — British socialite and longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was made a scapegoat for the disgraced financier since he killed himself last summer while he was facing sex abuse charges, her lawyers said in court papers filed Friday seeking her release from jail while she awaits trial. After […] More

July 10, 2020

Depp says feces in bed was last straw in marriage to Heard
Depp says feces in bed was last straw in marriage to Heard

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Johnny Depp described the breakdown of his marriage to Amber Heard on Friday in a London court, saying the last straw came when feces were found in the couple’s bed after a party. Depp was wrapping up his evidence in his libel case against a British tabloid […] More

July 10, 2020

Police: Pop Smoke’s social media led killers to LA home
Police: Pop Smoke’s social media led killers to LA home

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities believe rising rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed during a Los Angeles home-invasion robbery in February after his social media posts led five suspects to the house he was renting, police said after detectives arrested the group Thursday morning.   Los Angeles police had […] More

July 9, 2020

Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen back in federal prison
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen back in federal prison

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was returned to federal prison, weeks after his early release to serve the remainder of his sentence at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday.   In a statement to The Associated Press, the Bureau […] More

July 9, 2020

Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher jailed for raping student, dies
Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher jailed for raping student, dies

SEATTLE (AP) — Mary Kay Letourneau, a teacher who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted of raping him in a case that drew international headlines, has died. She was 58.   Her lawyer David Gehrke told multiple news outlets Letourneau died Tuesday of cancer. He did not immediately return an email from […] More

July 8, 2020

Suspect’s girlfriend charged in Fort Hood soldier’s gruesome death
Suspect’s girlfriend charged in Fort Hood soldier’s gruesome death

UPDATED 7/7/20 Cecily Ann Aguilar waived Tuesday’s video teleconference hearing, according to official court documents. United States Magistrate Judge Jeffrey C. Manske appointed Aguilar with a federal public defender, Leis Berray Gainor. Aguilar’s next hearing, preliminary/detention hearing, is scheduled for July 14, 2020, at 10:30 a.m. ET.   ORIGINAL STORY 7/2/20 ATLANTA (Court TV) A […] More

July 7, 2020

Murder and the Menendez Brothers Episode 3
Murder and the Menendez Brothers Episode 3

Content Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised. Erik and Lyle Menendez were arrested for the brutal shotgun killing of their parents in March of 1990.  It took three years of legal wrangling before they stood before a jury of their peers, who would soon learn the details of […] More

July 7, 2020

Maxwell moved to NY for Epstein-related sex abuse charges
Maxwell moved to NY for Epstein-related sex abuse charges

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred Monday to a New York City jail plagued by coronavirus concerns and other problems as she faces charges that she recruited girls, one as young as 14, for him to sexually abuse. Maxwell, 58, […] More

July 6, 2020

Lawyer: Remains of missing Texas soldier identified
Lawyer: Remains of missing Texas soldier identified

By JAKE BLEIBERG DALLAS (AP) — Army investigators have identified the body of a soldier who vanished more than two months ago from a base in Texas, according to a lawyer for the soldier’s family. Remains found last week buried near Fort Hood belong to Spc. Vanessa Guillén and Army officials informed her family in Houston […] More

July 6, 2020

2 Oklahoma police officers charged in death of man
2 Oklahoma police officers charged in death of man

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two police officers from a small southern Oklahoma town have been charged with second-degree murder after being accused of using their stun guns more than 50 times on a 28-year-old man who died.   Wilson police Officers Joshua Taylor, 26, and Brandon Dingman, 34, were charged in the death last year […] More

July 6, 2020

Supreme Court upholds cellphone robocall ban
Supreme Court upholds cellphone robocall ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 1991 law that bars robocalls to cellphones.   The case, argued by telephone in May because of the coronavirus pandemic, only arose after Congress in 2015 created an exception in the law that allowed the automated calls for collection of government debt. RELATED STORY: Robocalls argued […] More

July 6, 2020

Cosby citing systemic racism as he fights assault conviction
Cosby citing systemic racism as he fights assault conviction

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian’s testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It was sensitive. Embarrassing. Private.   U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno had another word for it. […] More

July 6, 2020

Epstein pal arrested, accused of luring girls for sex abuse
Epstein pal arrested, accused of luring girls for sex abuse

By JIM MUSTIAN and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested Thursday on charges she helped lure at least three girls — one as young as 14 — to be sexually abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of victimizing dozens of girls and women over many years.   […] More

July 2, 2020

One officer shown in Elijah McClain photos resigns
One officer shown in Elijah McClain photos resigns

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — One of the police officers investigated over photographs connected with the death of Elijah McClain in Colorado has resigned, Aurora police said Thursday. In a tweet, the department said that Jaron Jones was one of those depicted in the photos, which were taken sometime after McClain’s death last summer. The department […] More

July 2, 2020

Attorney: Missing Texas solider was killed at Fort Hood
Attorney: Missing Texas solider was killed at Fort Hood

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Army investigators believe a Texas soldier missing since April was killed by another soldier on the Texas base where they served, the attorney for the missing soldier’s family said Thursday. Lawyer Natalie Khawam said the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Division told her that the other soldier bludgeoned 20-year-old soldier Vanessa Guillen […] More

July 2, 2020

Couple accused of killing son by forcing him to drink water
Couple accused of killing son by forcing him to drink water

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado couple accused of killing their 11-year-old son by forcing him to drink large amounts of water are facing several charges, including child abuse and first-degree murder.   The Colorado Springs Gazette reports 41-year-old Ryan Sabin and 42-year-old Tara Sabin turned themselves in to authorities Tuesday and are being held without […] More

July 2, 2020

Animal cruelty tip leads to caged toddler, drugs, guns
Animal cruelty tip leads to caged toddler, drugs, guns

UPDATED 7/1/20   ORIGINAL STORY 6/26/20 PARIS, Tenn. (AP) — Three people are facing a multitude of charges after police found a caged toddler in a filthy Tennessee mobile home that also contained dogs, rodents and snakes, authorities said Friday. Authorities went to the home Thursday after receiving an anonymous tip about possible animal cruelty, […] More

July 2, 2020

Family: Human remains found in Texas are missing soldier
Family: Human remains found in Texas are missing soldier

  KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — The family of a soldier who has been missing since April believes partial remains that were found in Central Texas are her remains, the lawyer for her family said Wednesday, and the Army said it has identified two suspects in her disappearance. Pfc. Vanessa Guillen was last seen April 22 in […] More

July 1, 2020