Inset top: Jack Campitelli (Facebook). Inset bottom: Donald Trump waits for the start of proceedings in his trial at Manhattan criminal court, May 14, 2024, in New York (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, Pool). Background: JW Marriott in Nashville (Google Maps). A man who allegedly threw chairs from the balcony of a Nashville, Tennessee, hotel in the […]
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The group is launching a push in swing states and House battlegrounds to help “gun safety champions” with ads, polling and staffing to reach key groups of voters. NBC News Writes The new spending blitz, first reported by NBC News, will cover paid TV and digital ads, direct mail (in English and Spanish), new polls […]
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Savanna Koeckeritz (obituary), Lance Koeckeritz (Facebook), Lexi Gibson (obituary) A Minnesota father called it “mind-blowing” and “devastating” this week that the top prosecutor in Washington County is pursuing manslaughter and child endangerment charges against him for the 800cc engine ATV rollover crash deaths more than a year ago of his 10-year-old daughter and her 10-year-old […]
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Top inset: Alexa Stakely (GoFundMe). Bottom inset: Gerald F. Dowling Jr. (Franklin County Sheriff). Background: The location where Stakely was killed (WCMH/YouTube). Three teens were arrested in the death of an Ohio mother who tried to stop carjackers from taking her SUV with her sleeping 6-year-old son inside as she was picking him up from […]
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Left: Yulia Storozhuk (Miami-Dade Corrections). Right: Storozhuk abusing her child (Sunny Isles Beach Police Department). A woman in Florida caught on camera brutally abusing her toddler last year will avoid prison time after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors. In October 2023, Yulia Storozhuk, 30, was charged with felony child abuse over the brutal treatment […]
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Left: Rudy Giuliani (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office). Right: A painting of George Washington (AP Photo/Corcoran Gallery of Art). Even while granting the relief sought for “good cause,” a court didn’t take kindly to the “irrelevant characterizations” that Rudy Giuliani’s defense lawyer included across two pages of a recent request to modify the former NYC mayor’s […]
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Left: Rebekah Huskey (Chandra Law). Right: Kent Johnson (court documents). An ousted Port Clinton, Ohio, fire chief who was accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually harassing and assaulting a now former firefighter and EMT and subsequently lost a wrongful termination suit now faces a criminal indictment on multiple charges, including sex offenses. According to […]
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Glenroy Roberts (Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office). A Georgia man has been convicted and sentenced for the rage-induced murder of his wife — which he tried to blame on suicide. The killer’s excuse, however, was quickly undone by the sheer number of gunshots the woman suffered before she died, along with the testimony of a witness […]
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