A man accused of breaking into a home and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in southwestern Michigan is out of prison after 35 years after authorities agreed that he was wrongly convicted. Louis Wright’s convictions from 1988 were set aside …
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Allegations that a northern Virginia seventh-grader was repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted at her school more than a decade ago were totally fabricated, lawyers for the school system contend in a court filing seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit she …
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A lawsuit filed Monday accused a Florida Christian school of ignoring reports from students and staff that one of its teachers, Harriet Sugg, was allegedly grooming and inappropriately touching a student. Sugg, 54, was initially arrested in October on five …
A Texas man is facing life in prison after he repeatedly sexually assaulted a girl and impregnated her over a decade ago. The Ellis County District Attorney’s Office said that 57-year-old Wilbert James Jones, Jr. was sentenced to life in …
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BALTIMORE (AP) — After a corruption scandal led the Baltimore Police Department to disband its plainclothes gun squad in 2017, the embattled agency pledged to increase oversight while remaining focused on seizing illegal weapons and curbing rampant violence. But several …
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The boat co-captain at the center of a viral video that captured a wild brawl at a dock in Alabama in August is now facing a misdemeanor assault charge. Montgomery court records show one of the men accused of assaulting …
flash Ten alleged members and associates of the Gambino crime family were charged in a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday with using violence and extortion to try to dominate New York’s garbage carting and demolition industries, authorities announced. The racketeering indictment …
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A woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday against former Grammy Awards CEO Neil Portnow, accusing him of a 2018 sexual assault, and against the Recording Academy for negligence. The woman, who was not named, filed the lawsuit in state Supreme Court …
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A federal jury on Wednesday found a man not guilty of assaulting a woman at a U.S. research station in Antarctica in a case that drew attention amid reports of harassment and assault at the station. Stephen Tyler Bieneman pulled …
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Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the Grammy-winning music executive who influenced the careers of artists including Pink, Usher and Mariah Carey, was sued by a former music executive who says he sexually assaulted her and derailed her career. Drew Dixon filed the …
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