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In this Nov. 30, 2006, file photo, people watch through glass as a killer whale swims by in a display tank at SeaWorld in San Diego. A former manager of SeaWorld was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison for embezzling more than $800,000 over a period of eight years while he was working there.
Protesters who have filled the streets to push for the release of video of a fatal police shooting could see their task get much harder if Charlotte authorities do not share the footage within a week. A North Carolina law that takes effect Oct. 1 will declare that the video is not a public record and that only a judge can release it, potentially making the issue far more complicated than if police simply shared the footage on their own.
Three Virginia police officers will not be charged with federal civil rights crimes for repeatedly using a stun gun on a black man who died soon after he was taken into custody, a prosecutor said Thursday. Investigators found insufficient evidence to prove that the officers violated federal law by willfully using unreasonable force against Linwood Lambert Jr. in May 2013, U.S. Attorney John Fishwick Jr. said in a statement.
The district attorney of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has filed manslaughter charges against officer Betty Shelby in the death of Terrence Crutcher six days ago. "We reviewed the facts of the allegations, it is our responsibility to determine if the filing of a criminal charge is justified under the law," District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said.
Professor Glenn Reynolds' response to the anarchy in Charlotte - where a criminal mob of hate-filled Democrat voters looted stores, attacked police and white civilians, and shut down a major freeway - was three words of advice to endangered motorists: "Run them down." What are we permitted to say about marauding gangs of thieves and thugs? The owners of Twitter have evidently hired Democrat Party activists to control the narrative on their platform, effectively turning it into a propaganda platform for a violent anti-white terrorist organization .
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, seen here speaking at a University of Chicago Medicine groundbreaking last week, will give his policing speech Thursday night. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, seen here speaking at a University of Chicago Medicine groundbreaking last week, will give his policing speech Thursday night.
On Sunday night, CBS aired the first segment of their two-part docuseries The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey . Following televised investigations from A&E and Dr. Phil, The Case Of assembled a team of investigators to reexamine key pieces of evidence surrounding the case. Over the course of their investigation, led by former New York City prosecutor and retired FBI supervisory special agent and profiler Jim Clemente and former New Scotland Yard criminal behavioral analyst Laura Richards, the team unearthed never-before-publicized details, many of which cast a suspicious shadow on the six-year-old beauty queen's family: the now-deceased Patricia "Patsy" Ramsey, John Ramsey, and the couple's eldest son, Burke.
The U.S. Department of Justice approved but later declined to pursue federal racketeering charges against Harry Morel, the former St. Charles Parish district attorney who admitted this year to using his influence to solicit sexual favors from women facing criminal charges, according to FBI records released Monday. Federal prosecutors had been planning to charge Morel with "at least 30 racketeering acts," including solicitation of sexual bribes, according to a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Michael Zummer, the FBI's lead agent on the case.
Day two of the Charles and Linda Bolton federal tax trial involved two government witnesses on the stand throughout the day, and will likely be the last of the witnesses before the government rests. Renee Moore, a certified public accountant for Topp McWhorter Harvey, PLLC, which was formerly Nicholson & Company was the government's sixth witness.
The oldest of four teenagers accused of murdering a Conway couple last year will get to keep secret a document arguing why his case should be transferred to juvenile court even though his co-defendants' similar motions were open to the public. Two other motions on behalf of defendant Hunter Drexler of Clinton also have been sealed.
BUSINESSMAN Bryan Ta-ala, who is facing charges for gun smuggling, has not been placed under the monitoring of the Bacolod City Police Office after he posted bail Thursday, September 8. Senior Superintendent Flynn Dongbo, acting city police director, said Ta-ala is already a free man after he was ordered released by the Regional Trial Court. Dongbo said Ta-ala's party and the group of Senior Inspector Ariel Artillero, head of Criminal Investigation and Detection Group -Negros Occidental went to his office Thursday, following the incident that happened inside the Clerk of Court Office at the Hall of Justice.
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday dropped corruption charges against former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, bringing to a close a case that tarnished the once-rising star of the Republican Party. "After carefully considering the Supreme Court's recent decision and the principles of federal prosecution, we have made the decision not to pursue the case further," the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.
BACOLOD. Businessman Bryan Ta-ala posts bail before the Regional Trial Court in Bacolod City Thursday for two counts of violation of the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act.
The case against former Republican Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife has been dropped by the Department of Justice. The Washington Post reports : Federal prosecutors will not attempt to retry former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, on corruption charges, ending a years-long saga that rocked the commonwealth's political class and cut short the rise of a Republican Party star.
Sean Ragan, FBI special agent in charge of criminal investigation, addresses the media during a press conference at Cal Poly to inform the public of a renewed search for the remains of Kristin Smart at sites on the Cal Pol... . San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson addresses the media during a press conference at Cal Poly to inform the public of a renewed search for the remains of Kristin Smart at sites on the Cal Poly campus in San Luis Obispo, C... via AP).
Imagine for a second that Hillary Clinton is operating a business that has run afoul of its customers, and some even believe they were defrauded and are suing to get their money back. Then imagine that there is a pattern of Clinton donating money to those attorneys general and in return, they drop their investigations into Clinton's business.
To crack Minnesota's biggest cold case - the 1989 abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling - authorities went back to the early days of the investigation. They turned a renewed spotlight last year on a man who was questioned soon after Jacob's disappearance but was never charged.
Jacob was 11 when he was kidnapped in October 1989 near his home in the central Minnesota community of St. Joseph. Authorities on Saturday announced his remains had been found.