Jun. 20—The Minnesota Court of Appeals this week affirmed the sentence of Devin Weiland of Albert Lea, who in February 2023 was sentenced to a combined 50 years in prison after shooting three people during an eight-hour standoff in November 2020 at Shady Oaks apartments. The opinion, released Monday, stated the district court did not […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A judge has ordered the enforcement of a lawsuit settlement between Mississippi’s capital city and the family of a man who died after police officers pulled him from a car while searching for a murder suspect. George Robinson, 62, died in January 2019, days after the encounter with three Jackson police […]
May 6—The state Supreme Court on Monday affirmed John Powell’s convictions for the 2018 shooting deaths of three people and the burglary of a home in Northern New Mexico. In a unanimous decision, the court concluded there was sufficient evidence to support Powell’s convictions on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated […]
Kristina Karamo was properly removed as chair of the Michigan Republican Party, a judge said Tuesday, the same day that voters participated in the state’s presidential primary. The decision against Karamo came after months of internal fighting over the financial health of the state GOP in the battleground state. Members of the state party organized […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden. Lindell said he plans to […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden. Lindell said he plans to […]
The Second Court of Appeals has affirmed the manslaughter conviction of Aaron Dean, who in 2019 when he was a police officer fatally shot a woman as she held a handgun inside the Fort Worth house where she was living, overruling four trial errors that were alleged by the defense attorneys who represent Dean. Whether […]
Feb. 15—The 11th District Court of Appeals affirmed Ivan Jamall Grover’s conviction on felonious assault and gun charges earlier this week. Grover was indicted on Feb. 12, 2022, on one count of felonious assault and one count of improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation or school safety zone, second-degree felonies. He pleaded […]
The Supreme Court has finally declared that the government, represented by the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU), owns a part of the Samara-West oil product pipeline, Vitaliy Koval, head of the SPFU stated in Telegram on Feb. 1. “The case of Medvedchuk’s pipeline is over.” Koval said, adding that the state’s ownership of the […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A bipartisan delegation from the United States Congress reaffirmed support for Taiwan during a visit Thursday following its election of a new president. The delegation’s visit is the first by U.S. lawmakers to the island since the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party won a third-straight term in the Jan. 13 election. China, […]