Jury selection is scheduled to start Tuesday morning in a police brutality lawsuit against three Rochester Police officers, former Chief James M. Sheppard and the city of Rochester. Benny T. Warr, who filed the complaint with his wife, Nina M. ...
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Locked up for life at 15, Norman Brown remains defined by the crime that put him behind bars. Twenty-seven years ago, Brown joined a neighbor twice his age to rob a Chesterfield, Missouri, jewelry shop, and the man shot the ...
Read More »COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge in South Carolina has turned back the Trump administration’s attempt to continue preparatory work for offshore drilling during the federal government’s partial shutdown, issuing a ruling in a federal lawsuit challenging the overall expansion ...
Read More »ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the increasing number of threats against journalists shows the need for stronger criminal penalties for assaulting a member of the press. The Democrat is proposing to make assaulting a journalist ...
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Read More »SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand introduced herself to Iowa Democrats as a commonsense fighter for family and children issues as she made her first visit to the early-voting state as a 2020 presidential prospect. Unlike ...
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WASHINGTON – Democrats in Congress vowed Friday to aggressively investigate a new report that President Donald Trump personally directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the president’s push for a Moscow real estate project ahead of ...
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Despite the partial shutdown of the federal government, the courts will stay open at least through Jan. 25. According to a message posted on the website for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York by Clerk ...
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For nearly a decade, Marie Jean Pierre showed up to work as a dishwasher at the Conrad Hotel in Miami’s posh, high-rise-filled Brickell neighborhood. The Haitian immigrant said she informed the hotel from the time she was hired, in April ...
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When Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, William Barr, earlier this week whether it would be a crime if “the president tried to coach somebody not to testify, or testify falsely,” Barr was unequivocal: ...
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When Texas tried to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program based on “sting” videos produced by undercover antiabortion activists, a federal judge in Austin said the whole case sounded more like it belonged in a “best-selling novel.” ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed an advocacy group’s lawsuit over a New York state lawmaker’s attempt to shield ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools from oversight. U.S. District Judge Leo Glasser ruled late Wednesday that the group Young Advocates ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is recasting his legal team a month after losing a hard-fought bid to get his sexual assault case thrown out. Weinstein and high-profile defense attorney Benjamin Brafman said in a statement Thursday that they ...
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