A Columbine High School shooting survivor warned the prison sentences for Michigan high school shooter Ethan Crumbley’s parents set a “dangerous precedent” by removing responsibility from the criminal, who “knew what he was doing.” “I think that it removes responsibility out of the hands of this teenager,” Craig Scott said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.” “I speak at a lot …
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed several bills into law Wednesday that intend to crack down on the ability of sexual predators to “groom” children, or lure potential victims, over the internet. The bills also increase the ability of law enforcement agencies to combat and penalize these predators and child molesters. “In Florida, we stand for the wellbeing and innocence of …
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Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced Wednesday in state court. The six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who attacked Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023 have already been sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from …
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It started with three words: “They raped me.” David Meehan’s disclosure to his wife seven years ago set into motion an unprecedented criminal investigation into New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center, which was built in the 1850s as a “house of reformation.” It is now called the Sununu Youth Services Center, after former Gov. John H. Sununu, the father of …
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More than a decade ago, Kristin Fritz was struggling with pain in her spine and saw a rheumatologist recommended by her doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The visit with Dr. Derrick Todd started normally for the 37-year-old New Hampshire woman. But as Todd progressed, he aggressively groped her breasts, she said, to the point that he “seemed …
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Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reject former President Trump’s claim that he can’t be prosecuted for allegedly attempting to overturn the 2020 election. In prosecutors’ final brief before justices hear arguments in Trump’s case on April 25, Smith’s team argued lower courts were right to deny Trump’s immunity claims. “The President’s constitutional duty to …
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The billionaire business mogul who provided former President Donald Trump with the massive bond required to appeal his case in New York says he might not have charged the former head-of-state a good price. Don Hankey is the chairman of Knight Specialty Insurance, the company that supplied the $175 million bond required by Trump’s New York civil fraud trial. Hankey …
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A trial begins Monday against Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a small northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to asbestos from a vermiculite mine. For decades, the W.R. Grace & Co. mine near Libby produced the contaminated vermiculite that exposed residents to asbestos, sickening thousands and leading …
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Sophie Hartman, a Washington woman and the adoptive mother of two young biological half-sisters from Zambia, was charged in 2021 with medically abusing the younger of the two girls, allegedly subjecting her to about 470 medical appointments over four years. Hartman was cleared in 2022 after her charges – including second-degree assault of a child and second-degree attempted assault of …
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The Bronx judge who set loose six suspected migrant squatters arrested on drugs and weapons charges last week previously released two men who beat up a police officer. Bronx Criminal Court Judge Eugene Bowen, a Democrat elected in 2022, released the six men against the wishes of prosecutors. One of the migrants, HectorDesousa-Villalta, 24, of Venezuela, had been arrested in …
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