Feds indict 68 in California white supremacist gang bust
(CN) — Over five dozen members of a Southern California white supremacist street gang with ties to the state’s most prolific prison-based gangs were indicted on a slew of drug trafficking, fraud and...
View ArticleGarth Brooks accused of rape in lawsuit by former hair stylist
LOS ANGELES (CN) — An unnamed woman sued country music star Garth Brooks on Thursday, claiming Brooks violently raped her in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2019 and continually subjected her to sexual...
View Article‘I’m not trying to kill the guy’: Prosecutors show Daniel Penny’s first...
MANHATTAN (CN) — Fresh after choking an unruly straphanger to death on a New York City subway last year, Daniel Penny was initially relaxed when he recounted the incident to New York Police Department...
View ArticleHouston officer convicted of murder suffers medical emergency during sentencing
HOUSTON (CN) — Gerald Goines, the former Houston police officer convicted in September of felony murder, suffered a sudden medical episode during court proceedings on Thursday, abruptly stopping the...
View ArticleNo candy here
ST. LOUIS — Registered sex offenders in Missouri will not have to put a “No candy or treats at this residence” sign on their homes on the night of Halloween. A federal judge ruled that the portion of...
View ArticleBrita no longer in hot water
LOS ANGELES — Brita Products Co. dodged a class action accusing it of deceiving buyers into thinking that its water filtration systems remove hazardous chemicals from tap water. The consumer claimed...
View ArticleTitanium dioxide in tampons
BROOKLYN — A federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit accusing This Is L Inc. of falsely advertising its tampons as being free of dyes even though they contain titanium dioxide, an inorganic...
View ArticleThe US could have seen shortages and higher retail prices if a dockworkers...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. Workers began walking picket lines...
View ArticleYouTube auto-renewal win
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling clearing YouTube of claims that its automatic renewal terms violated two Oregon laws. The check-out pages for YouTube Music, YouTube...
View ArticleOakland ‘sideshow’ laws criminalize journalism, reporter says
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — People shutting down intersections to do donuts until their tires burn out may not sound like a First Amendment issue at first, but that’s exactly what it is, according to an...
View ArticleKansas correctional officers not immune to excessive force claims for death...
(CN) — The Kansas correctional officers involved in the in-custody death of a 17-year-old foster child must face claims of excessive force, battery and emotional distress, a federal judge ruled on...
View ArticleOutrage at nonguilty verdict after slaying of Black man at Virginia hospital
DINWIDDIE, Va. (CN) — To the anger of friends and family, a jury on Thursday acquitted a hospital security guard on charges stemming from the slaying of a mentally ill Black man. That man, Irvo...
View ArticleTexas ghost gun manufacturer will have to face lawsuit in California, not Texas
SAN DIEGO (CN) — An Austin, Texas-based manufacturer of milling machines that allow people to build their own untraceable guns will have to face a lawsuit brought by the state of California in state...
View ArticleDefendant’s statements to cops after NYC subway killing ruled admissible as...
MANHATTAN (CN) — A New York judge ruled Friday that a series of on-camera statements Daniel Penny made to police officers and detectives are admissible evidence in his upcoming manslaughter trial....
View ArticleConstable acquitted
SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court threw out a tampering with evidence conviction against former Bexar County Constable Michelle Barrientes, ruling that the prosecution did not sufficiently prove that...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists sue to protect world’s oldest known oak tree
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (CN) — A group of environmental advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit Friday hoping to protect a more than 13,000-year-old oak tree from nearby industrial development. Led by the...
View ArticleBusinessman convicted of cheating ex-NBA star Dwight Howard out of millions...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Georgia businessman was convicted Friday of scamming former NBA star Dwight Howard out of millions of dollars in a bogus scheme to buy the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream. The jury returned its...
View ArticleJudge denies an order sought by a Black student who was punished over his hair
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday denied a request by a Black high school student in Texas for a court order that the student’s lawyers say would have allowed him to return to his high school...
View ArticleReal — or imagined — crime spike spurring California voter interest in...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Emotion can play a large role in California elections, especially when it comes to statewide ballot measures. Californians typically see a handful of measures at the polls,...
View ArticleKagan shoots down challenge to California ban on gun show sales
WASHINGTON (CN) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan refused Friday to pause California’s prohibition on firearm sales at gun shows hosted on public property. Kagan, a Barack Obama appointee,...
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