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Three new police officers were fired for making comments on a group chat about using Miami's primarily black neighborhoods for target practice, a newspaper reported Friday. Officers Kevin Bergnes, Miguel Valdes and Bruce Alcin were let go on Dec. 23, after an internal affairs investigation concluded that they violated department policies, said the Miami Herald , citing documents it obtained.
Former Prenda attorney John L. Steele, shown here in 2010, is facing indictment for alleged pornography scam first exposed by a Los Angeles federal judge. Former Prenda attorney John L. Steele, shown here in 2010, is facing indictment for alleged pornography scam first exposed by a Los Angeles federal judge.
About one in 19 generic drugs sold in the U.S. during the past three years have undergone major price hikes that may be consistent with collusion, according to a wide-ranging study that comes in the middle of a sprawling Justice Department investigation into pharmaceutical price-fixing. Fideres Partners LLP, a London-based consultancy that works with law firms to bring litigation against companies, analyzed price moves in 1,670 generic drugs sold in the U.S. from 2013 to 2016.
Dauphin County Chief Deputy District Attorney Johnny Baer has prosecuted many of Harrisburg's most serious crimes over the past decade. Now, the chief deputy district attorney is considering trading his courtroom gig against suspected killers for the mayor's job.
The nationally-famous Bill Goodman Gun & Knife Show will be held at the Wilson County Expo Center Jan., 28-29 after being forced out at the State Fairgrounds in Nashville amid what the show's organizer calls false accusations. "Let's start with the so-called 'gun show loophole'," says David Goodman, whose late father founded the Kentucky-based trade show 49 years ago and has made annual appearances at the Fairgrounds for 35 years.
For municipalities with large populations of undocumented immigrants, it's one of the biggest challenges for law enforcement: How do we create a relationship of trust with a community taught not to trust us? After the presidential race spurred heated national debate on immigration, state Sen. Jamie Eldridge announced last month plans to refile a bill to allow state and local law enforcement to take a lighthanded approach to federal immigration laws. The Acton Democrat filed the bill in two previous legislative sessions, but he has hopes it will find more support this year.
One of the most controversial features of the recent presidential candidate was Donald Trump's promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and possibly charge Hillary Clinton with a handful of criminal offenses. Clinton's fans responded with outrage, claiming it is bad form for a presidential candidate to threaten jailing an opponent.
A bill on the governor's desk would finally respect the state's obligation to provide indigent defendants with counsel. There is no defending the perpetuation of an unjust system.
In this July 15, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the federal courthouse in Chicago. Blagojevich is asking a U.S. appeals court to nullify his 14-year prison term and order a third sentencing hearing.
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month. The revelation comes as the New York attorney general's office investigates the foundation following media reports that foundation spending went to benefit Trump's campaign.
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month. The revelation comes as the New York attorney general's office investigates the foundation following media reports that foundation spending went to benefit Trump's campaign.
All crime reporters have a story from their past they cannot shake, a case that either touched them on a profound personal level or remains mysteriously unsolved. This time of year, I think of a story I covered 20 years ago this week, which remains with me for both reasons: the Christmastime death of 6-year-old JonBent Ramsey in Boulder, Colo.
After resolving what his attorney called "complicated financial issues," former Fleming Furniture owner Danny Kelley accepted a plea agreement Thursday in McCracken Circuit Court, pleading guilty to 12 felony theft charges. Kelley, 69, was initially charged with one count of theft by deception, under $10,000; nine counts of theft by failure to make required disposition of property, over $500 but less than $10,000; one count of theft by failure to make required disposition of property, over $10,000; and one count of theft of services.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to release thousands of pages of private emails does not end a dispute in Illinois about public access to such emails from him and other officials when they deal with government business. Emanuel announced late Wednesday that he had settled a lawsuit by a government watchdog group over emails from his personal accounts, but it allows him and his personal lawyer to decide which emails are public records and which are not.
A former Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientist was sentenced to 18 months in prison this week for faking research results in a scheme that prosecutors said was to win promotions and glory - not to get rich. Sean Darin Kinion, 44, of Lafayette, cost the federal government more than $3.3 million from 2008 to 2012 because his quantum computing research project produced empty results and phony data, according to the U.S Attorney's Office.
A federal appeals court on Monday overturned the convictions of three former Probation Department officials, ruling that the government "overstepped its bounds in using federal criminal statutes to police the hiring practices of these Massachusetts state officials." Former Probation Commissioner John O'Brien and former deputy commissioners Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke were convicted in 2014 for their roles in a patronage scheme in which they "abused the hiring process ... in exchange for favorable budget treatment from the state Legislature and increased control over the Probation Department," three U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit judges wrote in their opinion.
The 2016 election will be remembered not only for the memorable presidential race but also for what was effectively a national referendum on cannabis. Eight states passed laws allowing its use.
A Seekonk man is accused in a federal sextortion case of threatening to send explicit photos of a teenage girl to her family and friends if she didn't do what he wanted. David Ackell, 48, was indicted in July 2015 with two counts of stalking under the federal cyberstalking statute.
Whenever a pendulum swings too far in one direction, it is inevitable that it will swing back in the opposite direction. Some simply refer to this as a "reversion to the mean."