Dozens more former youth inmates filed lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages for sexual abuse they allegedly endured at Illinois detention centers dating back to the late 1990s. Thirteen women and 95 men filed two separate lawsuits on Friday in the Illinois Court of Claims against the state Department of Corrections and the state Department of Juvenile Justice. Each …
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Hilbert Margol says he didn’t look on himself as a hero when his U.S. Army artillery unit fought its way across Europe during World War II. But he will be feted in France as one of 60 American veterans of that conflict traveling to Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. “I know my brother and I …
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A Michigan man who went viral last week in a video clip of a judge noticing him driving while calling into a virtual court hearing for his supposed suspended driver’s license was the victim of a clerical error, according to reports. Corey Harris, 44, attended the virtual May 15 hearing for an October traffic stop in Pittsfield Township, Michigan, USA …
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Marc Klaas, Polly Klaas’ father, described her convicted killer’s bid to overturn his death sentence as a “travesty of justice.” “I couldn’t have been happier. … It was exactly what I wanted to hear,” Klaas told Fox News Digital of a California judge’s Friday decision to reject Richard Allen Davis’ request for a resentencing. “I thought the judge was fantastic. …
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A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that defendants in Oregon who have been in jail for more than seven days without a defense attorney must be released from custody. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in its 2-1 decision on Friday that Oregon’s public defense system is a “Sixth Amendment nightmare,” referring to the part of the …
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Long Island, New York, investigators have linked a fifth alleged victim to Rex Heuermann, the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer who was accused last year of murdering four women and dumping their bodies along a remote highway more than a decade ago, sources tell Fox News Digital. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment but acknowledged that Heuermann …
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A transgender-identified California convict with a lengthy record of criminal violence has been transferred out of a women’s correctional facility and back to a men’s prison after being indicted for rape. Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, 51, is an incarcerated biological male who identifies as a woman and faces two charges of forcible rape and one of “dissuading a witness from …
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A 74-year-old Nebraska woman who was believed to be dead was discovered alive at a funeral home after showing signs of life, authorities said Monday. Emergency crews were called toButherus Maser & Love Funeral Home in Lincoln at about 11:45 a.m. after people there began performing CPR on the woman. “This is a very unusual case,” Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office …
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Two people, including a juvenile, were arrested in the shooting deaths of an Arizona police officer responding to a disturbance call and a civilian at the scene. Gila River Police Officer Joshua Briese and the unnamed second victim were killed at a home in Santan, District 4 of the Gila River Indian Community, around 2 a.m. on Saturday, Fox 10 …
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Authorities have found the bodies of two men who went over a waterfall while fishing near the Minnesota-Ontario border last month. WEATHER THWARTS SEARCH FOR MISSING FISHERMEN IN MINNESOTA’S BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA Deputies found the remains of Melvin Grams, 40, of Lino Lakes, on Monday in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota, the St. Louis County …
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