PHOENIX — Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury. The jurors in the trial of George Alan Kelly were unable to reach a unanimous decision on a verdict after more than two […]
Defense lawyers are deploying an interesting strategy to win over jurors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. They’re humanizing the bombastic former president as a concerned family man and boss who, like anyone, just wanted to ward off bad press to protect his reputation and brand. The idea is to undercut New York […]
Police in Northern California said they arrested and charged a homeless man Friday after he knocked out an elderly man and went on to attack the local police chief and tried to steal his squad car. Piedmont police said Willie Gomer, 42, was taken into custody on assault and assault on a police officer charges […]
The annual White House Correspondents Dinner was held on Saturday night. The featured celebrity speaker was Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost. Let’s be clear, the dinner that allows journos to pat themselves on the back for what fine work they do (ahem!) and raises money for journalism majors in college, was mostly a campaign event […]
BERLIN — Two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany, police said Sunday, and a Russian man was arrested by authorities as a possible suspect in the killings. The two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were killed on the premises of […]
An Oregon man was arrested this week, accused of breaking into a Reedsport, Oregon, hatchery and pouring bleach into a rearing pond that killed 17,890 young Chinook salmon. The targeted Gardiner, Reedsport, Winchester Bay hatchery is part of Oregon’s volunteer Salmon Trout Enhancement Program and hosts four such tanks. The fish killed were intended for […]
NEW ORLEANS — The man who fatally shot retired NFL star Will Smith during a confrontation following a car crash in 2016 is scheduled for sentencing Thursday in a New Orleans courtroom. It’s the second time Cardell Hayes, 36, has faced sentencing in Smith‘s death. He was convicted of manslaughter in December 2016 and later […]
CHICAGO — The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the department of “brutally violent” policing tactics. The 76-page federal complaint alleges the officers violated multiple laws and police department policies during the “predatory, violent, […]
For the first almost two years of our relationship, I never actually met Gen. Michael Flynn, our communications being limited to text messages and occasional phone calls. We were both standing trial in the D.C. federal courthouse, facing politically motivated prosecutions by special counsel Robert Mueller. We had so many shared experiences: Both of our […]
The trial of Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly — charged with killing an illegal immigrant on his property in 2023 — has ended in a mistrial. The jury had deliberated on Friday without reaching a verdict and spent Monday deliberating again, according to KSAZ-TV in Phoenix. “Based upon the jury’s inability to reach a verdict on […]
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