WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have sought to delegitimize criminal investigations into his actions by declaring that Democrats have “weaponized” the justice system. That claim only intensified after a jury convicted Trump last month of 34 felonies in a hush-money case. In pushing that narrative, they have tended to ignore […]
Jun. 10—TROY — A Piqua man convicted of 18 felony counts including sexual battery and endangering children was sentenced June 6 to a minimum 30 years and a maximum of 34 years in prison. Rodney Davis Jr., 37, was accused of conduct that was allegedly “going on for years,” said Matthew Joseph, an assistant Miami […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s attorney general’s office is looking into whether Donald Trump’s recent felony convictions in New York make him ineligible to hold liquor licenses at his three New Jersey golf courses. A spokeswoman for the office said Monday that it is reviewing whether Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts involving […]
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday reinstated the murder convictions of Lindsey Lowe, the Hendersonville woman accused of killing her twin newborns after secretly giving birth in the bathroom of her parents’ home. The court reversed the decision by a Sumner County judge in 2022 to grant her a new trial because of […]
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Arizona on Thursday for the first time since late 2022 for a town hall-style event in north Phoenix. The event at Dream City Church is Trump’s first political rally since a New York jury convicted him last week of 34 felonies in connection with hush money […]
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden laid into his predecessor and likely opponent in November’s election, Donald Trump, for being convicted by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments, saying Monday night that “this campaign has entered uncharted territory.” Speaking at a fundraiser in Greenwich, Connecticut, Biden said the […]
A bunch of MAGA Republicans appeared in El Salvador over the weekend in yet another demonstration of the conservative movement’s allegiance to authoritarians around the globe. Several Republicans, including Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, Donald Trump Jr. and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, traveled to El Salvador to cheer […]
Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records before the 2016 election. Trump joins a handful of world leaders with criminal convictions. Leaders from Croatia, Israel, and France are among those to face criminal charges. Former President Donald Trump‘s criminal conviction will do little to slow his bid for The White House. On Thursday, […]
Child serial killer Lucy Letby has lost her UK Court of Appeal bid to challenge her convictions. At a two-and-a-half day hearing last month, Letby’s lawyers asked senior judges for approval to bring an appeal against her convictions for the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others. At a short hearing […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the felony convictions of five retired military officers who had admitted to accepting bribes from a Malaysian contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” in one of the Navy’s biggest corruption cases. The dismissals came at the request of the government — not the defense — citing prosecutorial […]
May 14—The New Mexico Supreme Court will decide whether to reaffirm a former state Cabinet secretary’s convictions in a yearslong corruption case or uphold an appeals court’s reversal based on the criminal statute of limitations. A prosecutor from the state Department of Justice delivered oral arguments Tuesday morning, asking justices to reverse the New Mexico […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, a change the Republican-controlled Statehouse championed amid concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases. Lee, a Republican, quietly signed off on the legislation last week without issuing a statement. The […]