DENVER — A couple who owned a funeral home in Colorado, where authorities last year found 190 decomposing bodies, have been indicted on federal charges that they improperly spent nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds on vacations, cosmetic surgery, jewelry and other personal expenses, according to unsealed court documents Monday The indictment confirms allegations by …
SANTA FE, New Mexico – A movie gunman has received the maximum sentence of 18 months in prison for manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cameraman by Alec Baldwin on the set of a western, as authorities now turn their attention to prosecuting Baldwin himself. A New Mexico judge on Monday found that Hannah …
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DENVER (AP) – A couple who owned a Colorado Funeral Home where authorities last year found 190 decomposing bodies, were indicted on federal charges that they improperly spent nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds on vacations, cosmetic surgery, jewelry and other personal expenses, according to court documents unsealed Monday. The indictment confirms allegations by state …
NEW YORK (AP) — In an extraordinary moment in American history, former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial begins Monday with jury selection. This is the first criminal trial against a former commander-in-chief and the first Trump’s four charges to go to court. With Trump as the presumptive nominee for this year’s Republican nomination, the …
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is making history criminal process will begin Monday with a simple but extraordinary procedural step that is vital to American democracy. A group of ordinary citizens — Trump’s peers, in the eyes of the law — will be chosen to decide whether the former president of the United States …
NEW YORK (AP) – The story of The Life of OJ Simpson was inherently cinematic – what began as fodder for a triumphant sports biopic suddenly turned into something much darker and more complex as Simpson slid from fame to infamy after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. It’s no wonder, then, …
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NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his money laundering case begins Monday with jury selection. The case will force the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to juggle sitting in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks to defend himself against charges involving a …
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NEW YORK (AP) – The judge in Donald Trump hush money criminal case on Friday rejected the former president’s request to delay his trial because of publicity surrounding the case. It’s the latest in a series of denials of delays that Trump has received from various courts this week as he fights to prevent the …
NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Weiselberg, a retired executive of Donald Trump’s real estate empire, was sentenced Wednesday to five months in prison for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil case for fraud filed against the former president by the New York attorney general. Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty last month to two …
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When an illustrated edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was released in 2019, educators in Clayton, Missouri, needed little debate before deciding to keep copies in high school libraries. The book is widely considered a classic work of dystopian literature about the oppression of women, and a graphic novel would help reach teenagers struggling …
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