Jury Acquits Ohio Police Officer in Fatal Shooting of Pregnant Woman

Officer Connor Grubb was charged with murder and other offenses after he fired through the windshield of a moving car, killing Ta’Kiyah Young, 21, in August 2023.

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Police Found $1 Million in a Tub Under a Garage. The Government Gets to Keep It.

A court ruled that the hidden cash, which the police found while searching for an illegal gun in Ontario, did not lawfully belong to the man living on the property.

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Oklahoma Governor Commutes Inmate’s Death Sentence Just Before Execution

The death-row inmate, Tremane Wood, 46, had already had his last meal. It was only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has stepped in to stop an execution.

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Chess Grandmaster Faces Ethics Complaint After Death of Daniel Naroditsky

The International Chess Federation filed the complaint against Vladimir Kramnik, a former world champion who had insinuated that Daniel Naroditsky cheated.

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Jury Awards $10 Million to Abigail Zwerner, Teacher Shot by 6-Year-Old Student

The teacher, Abigail Zwerner, was shot in the hand and chest by a first grade student who brought his mother’s gun to class in 2023.

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Fugitive Who Faked Abduction Is Found 13 Years Later, Enrolled in N.Y. College

Anthony Lennon, a convicted sex offender from Oklahoma, was arrested in Canton, N.Y., where he was studying under an alias, the authorities said.

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Police Investigate Possible Arson at Home of Portland City Councilor

The police said a fire that damaged cars and a carport at the home of City Councilor Candace Avalos was “suspicious in nature.” No arrests have been made.

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Jury Awards $42 Million in Death of Inmate at Private Jail in Louisiana

Erie Moore, a retired millworker and father of three, died in 2015, a month after guards slammed him headfirst to the floor at the Richwood Correctional Center, lawyers for his family said.

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Man Who Wrote ‘So I Raped You’ Is Sentenced to 2 to 4 Years in Prison

Ian Cleary sent Facebook messages to Shannon Keeler six years after he sexually assaulted her when they were college students in Pennsylvania, prosecutors said.

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Man Who Fled to Europe Gets at Least 5 Years for Rape, Prosecutors Say

A judge in Utah said that statements from women indicated that Nicholas Rossi, 38, was a “serial abuser of women.” He faces sentencing in another rape case next month.

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