Category Archives: Justice

Man who pled guilty in 4 spa deaths was in court for other 4

ATLANTA (AP) — A man accused of killing eight people at Atlanta area massage businesses is already destined to spend the rest of his life locked up after pleading guilty in four of the killings. But he faces more charges

N.S. privacy czar says Health Department improperly viewed and disclosed medical info

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's privacy commissioner says the Health Department violated the privacy rights of a participant in a program for people whose licences have been suspended for drunk driving offences. The ruling stems from a complaint by a participa...

‘They’re being banished:’ Inuit women need their communities, not jail, says advocate

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — It was just six weeks in jail for Jody Blake, an Inuk woman living in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L., but those weeks were long and lonely, and there was no chance of her kids or family

West Virginia woman pleads guilty to entering US Capitol

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A college student from West Virginia who was seen taking a “Members Only” sign near the Senate chambers after entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with supporters of former President Donald Trump pleaded guilty to

Chicago agency probes officer’s encounter with Black woman

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police oversight agency is investigating a white officer's struggle with a Black woman who was walking her dog in a lakefront park, an encounter the woman's attorneys allege became violent and was an “obvious case of

Robbers escape with hostages atop cars in Brazil bank heist

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Bank robbers armed with explosives and high-powered rifles plunged a city in Sao Paulo state’s

EU mission helps Kosovo with database on war crimes

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The European Union's mission in Kosovo said Monday it has assisted the country's police in developing a database to help investigate war crimes.

RFK’s oldest son condemns possible parole of Sirhan Sirhan

BOSTON (AP) — Former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, the oldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, denounced the possible parole of the man convicted of killing his father in California in 1968.

Trial of Olympic sheikh on forgery charges opens in Geneva

GENEVA (AP) — The trial opened Monday of an influential Olympic official accused of forgery in an alleged plot that implicated political rivals in Kuwait in a coup attempt.

Trial set to begin for prisoner accused of killing guards

CAIRO, Ga. (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the trial of one of two Georgia prisoners accused of killing two guards more than four years ago.

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