Richard Ray Ramirez (Tulare County Sheriff’s Office) A 49-year-old former law enforcement officer in California who was already on parole was arrested again over the weekend and now faces a possible life sentence for allegedly holding his girlfriend against her will and ruthlessly beating her. Richard Ray Ramirez was taken into custody on Sunday and […]
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Lincoln County (Okla.) District Judge Traci Soderstrom (YouTube screengrab via The Oklahoman). Inset: Traci Soderstrom (via Oklahoma State Courts Network). The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court recommended the removal of a local judge after she texted her bailiff 500 times during a murder trial, making flippant and crass remarks about the district attorney’s […]
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Maurice Monk, inset, died in custody in the beleaguered Santa Rita Jail in California, pictured, and his family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. (Images from jail body camera video via Monk’s family lawyers) An inmate died on his bunk in a California jail in a pool of his urine and feces as jailers and […]
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In May, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a red flag confiscation bill into law. At the time, a Whitmer press release stated, “At the bill signing, Governor Whitmer was joined by bill sponsors, legislators, public safety advocates, and law enforcement officials.” The bill went into effect last week. Now that court-ordered gun grabs are a […]
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Stephen Bates appears in a booking photo in March 2022. (Nashua Police Department) A now-former Baptist pastor was sentenced to well over a decade in a New Hampshire prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges related to child sexual abuse materials. Stephen Bates, 48, pleaded guilty to one count of the manufacture of child […]
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Jessica Bortle (Pensacola Police Department) and Jasmine Singletary (WSYX screenshots) A 36-year-old mother in Alabama will spend just over a year behind bars for her role in the death of her 14-year-old special-needs daughter, who died of blunt force trauma to the torso in 2021. Escambia County Circuit Court Judge ordered Jessica Bortle on Wednesday […]
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Former Aurora, Colo., Police Department officer Randy Roedema leaves the courtroom after he was convicted of charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, inset, after a trial in the Adams County, Colorado, courthouse Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski; McClain’s photo from GoFundMe) A jury found one officer guilty and acquitted a second […]
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Last Sunday, a famous Democrat was killed in another horrific incident in the state of Michigan. On October 8th, Ted Lawson, secretary of the Ingham County Democratic Party, was shot and died. The 63-year-old was canvassing when a 15-year-old allegedly approached him and demanded money before shooting him. After Lansing Police arrived to a 911 […]
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FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departure from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) At least one lawsuit seeking to kick Donald Trump off of the 2024 ballot under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment is speeding towards a late October trial […]
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Gerard Butler attends a screening of FilmDistrict’s “Olympus Has Fallen” hosted by the Cinema Society with Roger Dubuis and Grey Goose on Monday, March 11, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) Star actor Gerard Butler’s lawsuit over millions of dollars in profits that he claimed he was entitled to from his work in […]
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