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The new charges against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will remain under seal until he is arraigned Wednesday. (Associated Press file)
Sep 13, 2024

Weinstein faces additional sex crimes charges ahead of retrial

NEW YORK — Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges ahead of his retrial in New York, Manhattan prosecutors said at a hearing Thursday. […]

Michele Fiore, a justice of the peace and former member of the Nevada state Assembly and the Las Vegas City Council, faces federal charges of using funds raised for a statue honoring a slain police officer for political and personal purposes. (Associated Press file)
Sep 10, 2024

Fraud, conspiracy trial looms for Nevada politician

LAS VEGAS — A Nevada Republican who ran unsuccessfully for state treasurer in 2022 pleaded not guilty Monday to two new charges and headed toward trial in two weeks on […]

A courtroom artist’s drawing depicts Hunter Biden entering a federal courtroom Thursday in Los Angeles as jury selection was to start for his tax evasion trial. (Associated Press)
Sep 6, 2024

Hunter Biden enters surprising guilty plea to tax charges

LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges Thursday in a surprise move that spares President Joe Biden and his family another likely embarrassing and painful criminal […]

The electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair sit in the South Carolina death chamber in Columbia. (South Carolina Department of Corrections file)
Aug 21, 2024

Solicitor to seek death penalty in quintuple slaying

SPARTANBURG — South Carolina prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man arrested nearly two years ago and accused of fatally shooting five people. The 7th Circuit Solicitor’s Office […]

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein faces retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in November in New York City. (Associated Press file)
Aug 20, 2024

Weinstein will remain jailed pending rape retrial

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein will remain in custody in New York while awaiting retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan, prosecutors confirmed Monday as the former movie […]

A frame from a police body camera video shows Gideon Cody, then police chief on Marion, Kan., during his department's raid of the Marion County Record newspaper’s office on Aug. 11, 2023, in Marion, Kan. (McDonald Tinker Attorneys at Law file)
Aug 14, 2024

Ex-chief who raided newspaper faces felony obstruction charge

TOPEKA, Kan. — A former Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of […]

Hunter Biden could face up to 25 years in prison after being convicted of felony firearms charges, but as a first-time offender, he is likely to get far less time or avoid prison entirely when he is sentenced Nov. 13 in Wilmington, Del. (Associated Press file)
Aug 5, 2024

Hunter Biden faces gun conviction sentencing in November

WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden is set to be sentenced on felony firearms charges in November under an order signed by a judge on Friday. The president’s son could face up […]

Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, speak during his involuntary manslaughter trial Friday at Santa Fe County District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. The charge was dismissed by the court later that day. (Associated Press)
Jul 16, 2024

Ammunition questions linger after Baldwin’s trial ends

SANTA FE, N.M. — The criminal case against Alec Baldwin was about the handling of bullets from the beginning. And the handling of bullets brought it to an end. When […]

Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson pleaded not guilty to murder in the 2023 shooting death of his wife, Sheryl Ferguson. (Associated Press file)
Jun 21, 2024

Judge can stand trial for murder in wife’s slaying

LOS ANGELES — A Southern California judge can stand trial on a murder charge in the shooting death of his wife, another judge ruled Thursday, after finding there was sufficient […]

Former President Donal Trump sits at his counsel table surrounded by police officers, members of the media and his attorneys Thursday during deliberations in his New York City hush money trial. (Associated Press)
May 30, 2024

Jury’s verdict: Trump guilty on all counts

NEW YORK — Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in […]

The lead lawyer for Harvey Weinstein, above, the former movie mogul, has been accused by prosecutors of making statements meant to intimate a potential witness in Weinstein’s retrial. (Associated Press)
May 28, 2024

Weinstein’s lawyer has prosecutors crying foul

Prosecutors in New York have accused Harvey Weinstein’s lead defense lawyer of making public statements intended to intimidate a potential witness ahead of the fallen movie mogul‘s retrial and asked […]

Attorneys for Hunter Biden have asked the full 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear a bid to dismiss the prosecution of the president’s son on charges that he bought a gun during the period he was addicted to illegal drugs. (Associated Press file)
May 21, 2024

Hunter Biden’s attorneys press for gun trial delay

WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden pressed for a delay Monday in his federal gun case, asking an appeals court to pause the Delaware trial set to begin next month. Defense attorneys […]


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