ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly said a gunman who carried out a racist massacre in her hometown of Buffalo had used the gun accessory that can allow semiautomatic rifles to shoot as fast as a machine […]
Jun. 5—After hours of deliberation Wednesday and initial difficulty coming to a verdict, a jury decided Santa Fe police had wrongly arrested a man during an October 2020 protest over the Plaza obelisk and awarded him $50,000 in damages from the city. Jurors did not find in Dylan Wrobel’s favor, however, on another question: whether […]
An informant who has spent most of the last three decades in and out of lockups has helped send two men to prison for life in separate cases in Georgia — and is now a target of lawyers who say he made false claims in an attempt to spare himself time behind bars. Sterling Flint, […]
Rep. Katie Porter’s parting comments after her failed bid for U.S. Senate have been widely and appropriately denounced. Calling the primary race “rigged” was ill-tempered and immature, and it helped reassure those who voted against Porter that they were entirely justified for having done so. She later apologized, sort of, acknowledging during an interview on […]
The Wake County school system is apologizing for an error that led to families at the wrong school being notified that the campus was on a Code Red lockdown. Apex High School was placed briefly on a lockdown Monday morning because of what turned out to be a hoax threat. But instead of notifying Apex […]
A Kansas man is suing a US congressman after he was falsely identified as a shooter at the Kansas City Chiefs’ celebration parade. Denton Loudermill Jr, 48, filed a suit against the Republican US representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee on Monday in the US district court in Kansas City. Loudermill accused Burchett of calling him […]
A Florida mom says she was wrongfully questioned about trafficking her own child. The troubling incident happened after Bridgetta Tomarchio landed on a Southwest Airlines in Ohio. Police confronted her at the car rental counter after they say they received a call from a pilot about possible trafficking and asked if the child she was […]
Donald Trump was wrongly removed from Colorado’s primary ballot last year, the US supreme court has ruled, clearing the way for Trump to appear on the ballot in all 50 states. The court’s unanimous decision overturns a 4-3 ruling from the Colorado supreme court that said the former president could not run because he had […]
A Michigan village has agreed to a $320,000 settlement with a man from Japan who was wrongly accused of drunken driving after a police officer badly misread a breath test, court records show. Ryohei Akima blew a 0.02 on the test, but it was mistakenly read by the Fowlerville officer as 0.22 — nearly three […]
After Jasmine Violenes was mistakenly picked out of a police lineup and charged with two felonies she did not commit, she lost her home, her car and — most harmful of all — her good name. As the single mother of two tried to pick up the pieces of her life in Atlanta after the […]
The City of Tampa has approved a multimillion-dollar settlement with a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder. Robert DuBoise will receive $14 million. He spent 37 years in prison for the murder of a woman he did not commit. Watch: Florida police use DNA to identify woman found dead in trunk over 53 years […]
Jason Rivera wants to make one thing clear: He had nothing to do with the Megan McDonald murder case, and the only reason his name has been connected to it was because his brother-in-law, Orange County Judge Craig Stephen Brown, made a mistake. Rivera, 45, of Scotchtown, told his side of the story in a […]