Lizelle Gonzalez listens as a statement is read aloud by her lawyer Cecilia Garza during a press conference held in Garza’s office on April 2, 2024, in Edinburg, Texas (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP). For the two nights she spent in a Texas jail after being wrongfully charged with murder for a self-induced abortion in […]
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Left: Judge Arthur F. Engoron (Meir Chaimowitz/NurPhoto via AP). Right: Former President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Susan Walsh). The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial has rejected a defense request to recuse himself from the case over a controversial conversation involving a New York City real estate attorney. According to attorney Adam Leitman Bailey, […]
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Jewel Sky Fineday (Northern Peace Funeral Home) A Minnesota father will spend the next five years in prison after he allegedly starved his 7-year-old daughter to death, neglecting her in “nearly every way,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Julius Fineday, Sr., 42, “willfully deprived” his daughter Jewel Sky Fineday of food, health care and other […]
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Inset: Launice Shanique Battle (Raleigh Police Department). Background: The internet casino where Battle gambled while leaving her kids in the car (Google Maps). A North Carolina mother will spend several years behind bars after she left her young daughters to die in a hot car, letting the toddlers roast inside the vehicle for more than […]
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Left: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (Lev Radin/Sipa via AP Images) Right: Former President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer). Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday aimed to shut down former President Donald Trump’s recent efforts to throw out his 34-count felony conviction on document falsification charges. On July 12, the 45th president’s defense attorneys […]
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Jason Weir (Monroe County Sheriff’s Office) An 18-year-old in Georgia has been in jail for two months, reportedly after his own father and sister told authorities of the alleged sexual assault of a donkey and a bestiality offense against the family dog, a Great Dane. Apparently others in the Monroe County jailhouse got wind of […]
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Jocelyn Carter and her daughter (The Button Law Firm). A 20-month-old girl got access to a vape pen belonging to a Bright Horizons day care center employee in Texas and became sick from nicotine, a mother alleges in a lawsuit. Jocelyn Carter says her daughter was poisoned on her first day at the day care […]
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