The state’s top prosecutor has stepped in to assist the Fayette County Commonwealth’s Attorney in its efforts to overturn a judge’s controversial dismissal of a murder indictment last year. Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Tuesday his office appealed the dismissal of an indictment of a Lexington man charged with wanton murder for a July 2020 […]
A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer. Judge Ryan Horsman ruled late Friday that Sandra Hemme, who has spent 43 years behind bars, had established evidence of […]
The city has asked a judge to toss out a sweeping ageism lawsuit filed by a group of FDNY chiefs against Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, arguing that it fails to show that seasoned fire officials were targeted or suffered discrimination because of their age. A half dozen experienced FDNY brass say in the lawsuit that […]
A man who spent nearly a year in the custody of the state Department of Corrections is free after his burglary conviction in Pierce County was reversed by an appeals court. Prosecutors conceded they didn’t have sufficient evidence. In an unpublished opinion authored by Judge Rebecca Glasgow, a three-judge panel of Division II of the […]
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected Hunter Biden‘s effort to get his gun case in Delaware dismissed. A three-judge panel of the court did not consider the merits of his appeal, ruling that as a matter of procedure the lower court’s rejection of his various motions to dismiss the case are […]
The torso of a missing 19-year-old woman was found in a Louisiana river after she went to stay with a man she met online, authorities said. Anthony Holland Jr., 29, now faces a murder charge, the West Monroe Police department said in an April 24 news release. Sheryl Turner left home in New Iberia, Louisiana, […]
The latest earnings season has begun, and the latest quarterly results from some of our economy’s largest companies are starting to come in. Tuesday morning, it was healthcare mainstay Johnson & Johnson‘s (NYSE: JNJ) turn in the spotlight, and investors weren’t all that satisfied with the performance. In the wake of the company’s first-quarter earnings […]
A federal judge has denied former President Donald Trump‘s attempt to have his classified documents case dismissed based on the Presidential Records Act. Trump’s attorneys had argued, as part of four motions to dismiss, that Trump should have been able to have custody of the documents in question, even after he was president, due to […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden are expected in court Wednesday in Los Angeles, where he is accused in what prosecutors call a four-year scheme to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes while living an extravagant lifestyle. President Joe Biden‘s son has pleaded not guilty to the nine felony and misdemeanor tax offenses. […]
STAUNTON — A former Nexus Services Inc. executive who finds himself less than two weeks away from possible jail time after botching a plea agreement with the Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office is now looking to withdraw his plea in a perjury case and allow the case to be heard by another judge. Attorneys for […]
This retired teacher was tossed out of her Houston home of 45-plus years — here’s how other may be at risk too A retired teacher from Houston has found herself in real estate limbo after being unceremoniously kicked out of her home without warning. In September 2023, Wanda Jackson’s belongings were abruptly dumped on the […]
One of the Caribbean prison escapees who allegedly kidnapped an American couple during a violent yacht hijacking is seen in a video handcuffed and bloodied as law enforcement throws him in the back of a truck. The suspect is one of three men who allegedly threw Ralph Hendry and his wife, Kathy Brandel, overboard after […]