Tioga County, NY

Mountain View, CA

Texas State

BROOKLYN (CN) — Just two weeks after ex-U.S. Representative George Santos entered his own guilty plea in the Eastern District of New York, he returned to court in a starkly different capacity: as a victim. The expelled congressman sat in the gallery Thursday while a Texas man admitted he...

Texas man cops to scam attempt on George Santos, Danny Masterson

New York City, NY

MANHATTAN (CN) — Former President Donald Trump didn't attend a single day of the 2023 trial where jurors found him liable for sexually assaulting columnist and writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room some three decades prior. But on Friday, he appeared at an appeals hearing in New York City while his attorneys urged a panel of judges to throw out the verdict.

Trump asks federal appeals court to overturn verdict in ‘he said, she said’ civil rape case

Manhattan, NY

MANHATTAN (CN) — Donald Trump isn’t giving up his fight to move his hush money case from state to federal court. The former president is appealing a Tuesday ruling by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein that rejected federal removal, according to court documents. Trump filed a notice of...

Trump signals appeal of failed bid to move criminal case to federal court

Virginia State

WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge knocked 15 months off a Capitol rioter’s seven-year sentence on Wednesday, the first resentencing following the Supreme Court’s decision to narrow the Justice Department’s key felony charge in its prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021. Thomas Robertson, a former Virginia...

Federal judge shaves a year off Capitol rioter sentence in wake of appellate Jan. 6 decisions

Colorado State

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Florida State

Uncovering Florida

Today, Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration for failing to provide public documents requested through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing. The March 2024 FOIA request sought records related to policies allowing the release of dangerous criminal illegal aliens from U.S. prisons into the general population rather than deporting them.

FL Attorney General Sues Biden-Harris Administration Over Release of Criminal Illegal Aliens

Los Angeles County, CA

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Actor Van Johnson, who died in 2007, was one of Hollywood's ideal films idols. In the 1940s, the charming screen icon was box office gold, and remained a popular presence on TV in shows like Murder, She Wrote (which starred his good friend Angela Lansbury).

The Secret Gay Life & Horrific Car Accident of Actor Van Johnson: 16 Years After His Tragic Death

San Francisco, CA

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Victor Viera-Chirinos, a high-level drug trafficker who fled to Honduras to avoid prosecution three years ago, was sentenced to 82 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco on Wednesday morning. Chirinos, 42, was among 14 defendants accused of being...

Tenderloin drug trafficker gets 82 months in prison for role in large dealing operation

Maine State

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Sagadahoc County, ME

Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

Los Angeles, CA

L.A. TACO

After Curtis Wallace was sentenced to 46-years-to-life in prison nearly two decades ago, for a shooting he has always maintained he did not commit, he made his family a promise: one day he would make it home in one piece.

‘I’m Innocent:’ He Was Stabbed In Prison After Nearly 20 Years, Will D.A. Gascón’s Policies Help Free Him Before It’s Too Late?

Boulder, CO

BOULDER, Colo. (CN) — Insanity is the only plausible reason a 21-year-old Colorado man opened fire at a Boulder grocery store, killing 10, defense attorney Sam Dunn argued in opening statements Thursday at the Boulder County Justice Center. A jury will soon decide whether they agree — or whether...

After insanity plea, man who killed 10 at Boulder grocery store goes on trial

Idaho State

BOISE, Idaho — A federal court in Idaho protected the rights of two trans inmates who sought an injunction against a state law against using public funds on gender-affirming medical procedures. They win an injunction narrowly tailored to their situation: they, and other gender-dysphoric people who are incarcerated and prescribed hormone therapy, may receive their hormone treatments.

Gender care for Idaho prisoners

Coffee County, GA

Daily Coffee Press

Last week, two individuals from Coffee County were charged with trafficking methamphetamine following a search at a residence on Willacoochee Highway. On August 13, detectives with the Coffee County Drug Unit conducted an operation involving Charles Black, which led to a search of his residence on Willacoochee Highway. According to the report, Black left his residence before the warrant was served and was subsequently detained.

Two Charged with Trafficking Methamphetamine After Search in Coffee County

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials reported Thursday, pointing to a shrinking number of high school students who are using Elf Bar and other fruity, unauthorized e-cigarettes. The latest survey numbers show the teen vaping rate...

Teen vaping hits 10-year low in the US

South Carolina State

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A criminal defendant did not need to be advised that he would face mandatory deportation and a permanent ban from the country if he entered an Alford plea to criminal sexual conduct with a minor, ruled the South Carolina Court of Appeals. His counsel should have explicitly advised the man of the immigration penalties, but the defendant did not show how this omission prejudiced him, as he still would have taken the plea and its lesser sentence even if he was told this.

Bad lawyering, but no relief

Louisiana State

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana governor may not dismiss, as moot, a federal civil rights suit against the state brought by some three dozen incarcerated juveniles who say they are being housed at a parish prison where they are exposed to adult inmates. The suit is not dismissed because corrections officials previously made “promises and representations” that were not trustworthy; limited discovery may be conducted, and dismissal can be once again urged later.

Juveniles mixed with adult prisoners

Pennsylvania State

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — A medical student might well be right that the National Board of Medical Examiners’ method of scoring exams is discriminatory against those with disabilities, ruled a Pennsylvania federal court. Nevertheless, the Americans with Disabilities Act does not give the courts power to reshape how medical licensing exams are graded, so the student’s request for an injunction or restraining order is denied.

Medical licensing exams

Boston, MA

BOSTON — The maker of Vyvanse successfully sought dismissal of a putative consumer protection class action, which was brought by a patient who says she was given medicine with less of the active ingredient in them than the label indicated. She received empty pills, and some were deficient in the amount of medication in them, but she could not show how this rose above to the level of a breach of warranty or deceptive practices, rather than a mere error or negligence.

Amphetamine trouble

Salem, OH

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

Ohio State

CINCINNATI (CN) — A nearly unanimous Sixth Circuit upheld U.S. Supreme Court precedent Thursday and rejected calls by Senate Republicans to remove limits on coordinated spending between political parties and their candidates. Vice Presidential candidate and Ohio Senator JD Vance, former Ohio Representative Steve Chabot and the National Republican...

Sixth Circuit torpedoes Republican First Amendment challenge to coordinated expenditure limits

Georgia State

According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

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Ex-New York DA fights to duck malicious prosecution claims from decades-old murder case

MANHATTAN (CN) — A 23-year-old murder case saw the light of day in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, when a former New York...

Ex-New York DA fights to duck malicious prosecution claims from decades-old murder case

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