MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in George Floyd’s death will go on trial Jan. 20. The trial date was given Thursday in a docket filing, with proceedings to be held in St. Paul. Court records in November showed that juror summonses had gone out for that
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Texas — One year ago, hours after a swarm of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and briefly stopped Congress from ratifying the 2020 election results, 17 Texas Republicans voted against certifying Joe Biden as president. This week, The Texas Tribune reached out to all those members asking if they accept the 2020 election results
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By Taylor Romine, CNN Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should turn over money to his victims, including a previously deposited $1,400 federal stimulus payment, the US Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts said in a filing. The Wednesday filing is requesting the Federal Bureau of Prisons to turn over funds from Tsarnaev’s inmate trust account. Tsarnaev is
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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has one message for Americans and the world on the eve of the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol: “Democracy won.” Pelosi spoke in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday at the Capitol, steps from where
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EL PASO, Texas — A man already in custody at the El Paso County jail was rebooked on a murder charge. Police say 35-year-old Jevare Stephawn Freeman-Handy was arrested for the murder of 35-year-old Rodolfo Fuentes. Investigators say Fuentes was killed sometime between Nov. 15-20 at 921 N. Zaragoza. His body was found inside a
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police say an argument escalated into a deadly shooting on Dec. 30, 2021. The victim has been identified as 16-year-old Isaiah Lerma of central El Paso. Police say an officer responding to a call on the 4400 block of Durazno heard gunshots and found three people with gunshot wounds.
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UPDATE, Jan. 05, 2022: El Paso police have identified the teenager killed in a shooting back in December as Fabian Gomez. Police have yet to make an arrest in the case. Police say the shooting happened along the 2200 block of Zaragoza. UPDATE: El Paso police say a 16-year-old teenage male died in an east
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers say she’ll request a new trial after revelations by a juror in her case that he was a victim of sexual abuse. Her lawyers said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan on Wednesday that the court should order a
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EL PASO, Texas – Pets become members of our families when we welcome them into our homes. We take care of their every need, shelter them and love them. That is the case for most families who own pets but not all. In El Paso, specific laws are put in place to protect animals from
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy, CNN The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office says they are investigating how almost 600 packages from Amazon ended up dumped in a rural area northeast of Oklahoma City. According to a Facebook post from the sheriff’s office, the packages, all from Amazon, were found on New Year’s Eve. Some of the packages
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of duping investors into believing her startup Theranos had developed a revolutionary medical device that could detect a multitude of diseases and conditions from a few drops of blood. The case exposed Silicon Valley’s culture of hubris and hype.
Continue Reading FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a South Florida man tried to obtain more than $4.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds by filing false loan applications. Court records show that 27-year-old Valesky Barosy made his first appearance last week in Fort Lauderdale federal court. He faces multiple charges and up to 132 years
Continue Reading OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma has set a Jan. 28 date for the resentencing of “Tiger King” Joe Exotic. A federal appeals court in July ruled that Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, should get a shorter sentence. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A 2009 lawsuit settlement that Prince Andrew’s lawyers claim protects him from being sued by an American woman has been publicly released. The lawyers said the $500,000 settlement between Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein was released in Manhattan federal court on Monday. The prince’s attorneys
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A three-year-old boy and his stepfather were shot and killed Thursday night in their Juárez home. The boy’s mother was also wounded in the attack, according to ABC-7’s newsgathering partner Canal 44. Canal 44 reported Friday that a 20-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man were arrested by Juarez police on murder
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police said a 16-year-old was shot and killed and two others were hurt in central El Paso early Thursday morning. Police said the gunfire took place just before 12:30 a.m. at 4116 Duranzo Avenue, which is near Lincoln Park. Police did not specify whether the 16-year-old shooting victim was
Continue Reading By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has shortened the prison sentence of a truck driver convicted in a deadly explosive crash to 10 years, drastically reducing his original 110-year term that drew widespread outrage. The decision Thursday on Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence was among several end-of-the-year commutations and pardons issued
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UPDATE, Dec. 30: El Paso police on Thursday said they had arrested the car driver involved in a deadly hit-and-run crash with a motorcyclist on Christmas Day in east El Paso along George Dieter at Rex Baxter. 64-year-old Carmen Ofelia De Los Santos of El Paso was jailed on a charge of accident involving death.
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EL PASO, Texas — A victim was stabbed and wounded late Wednesday night in a central El Paso alleyway. The alley where the attack happened is located in the 3400 block of La Luz Avenue; it occurred around 9:15 p.m. The wounded person was taken to a local hospital, but first-responders said the injuries weren’t
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Advocates are renewing their push for legislation that would abolish life without parole for juveniles sentenced as adults in New Mexico. The proposed “Second Chance” bill would make juveniles sentenced as adults eligible for parole after serving 15 years in prison. Denali Wilson is an attorney with the American Civil Liberties
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UPDATE, Dec. 29: A daughter accused of stabbing her mother on Christmas Eve and then leading police on a chase along Interstate 10 in an SUV she stole from mom has been ordered held in the El Paso County jail on $285,000 bond. Judge Jon Joseph set the bond amount for 35-year-old Crystal Lynn Guillen
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UPDATE, Dec. 29: Police announced the arrest Wednesday of a 39-year-old northeast El Paso man for allegedly firing shots at a neighbor’s home the day prior, although fortunately authorities said the neighbor wasn’t injured in the gunfire. 39-year-old John Michael Connelly was being held in the downtown jail on $58,000 bond on aggravated assault with
Continue Reading NEW YORK, NY — British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a month-long trial featuring accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14. The jury convicted Maxwell, a longtime associate of the serial
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle, Steve Almasy and Ray Sanchez, CNN A jury in a New York federal court has found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty on five of six counts related to her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minor girls between 1994 and 2004. Maxwell, 60, was found guilty of five federal charges: sex trafficking
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UPDATE: Police confirmed one victim from a shooting that occurred Tuesday afternoon outside the Circle K store in in the 5000 block of East Paisano Drive. Authorities didn’t provide any information on the injured victim’s condition nor did they indicate the circumstances surrounding the shooting. However, EPPD’s Gang Unit was heading up the investigation – a
Continue Reading By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Authorities say a gunman who went on a deadly shooting rampage in several locations in the Denver area was targeting at least some of his victims. Police say the suspect in Monday’s shootings killed five people, including one who succumbed to her injuries Tuesday. They say the
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Authorities say a gunman who went on a deadly shooting rampage in several locations in the Denver area was targeting at least some of his victims. Police say the suspect in Monday’s shootings killed five people, including one who succumbed to her injuries Tuesday. They say the
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EL PASO, Texas– 911 call centers across the country are short staffed and strained. That’s the situation in El Paso, too. The volume of calls does not stop, but the ability to pick them up is becoming increasingly difficult. A shortage of dispatchers in El Paso could be leaving many of you on hold. ABC-7 spoke to
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — With authorities logging more than a dozen DWI arrests in the Albuquerque area since Christmas Eve, there are more calls for New Mexico to crack down on repeat offenders. Albuquerque television station KOB-TV reports that many of the cases over the past year involve first time offenses. But officers have seen
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police were looking into the death of a baby on Christmas Day. A Crime Scene Unit was deployed Saturday to a residence in the 600 block of South Yarborough and a police spokesperson confirmed there was an ongoing investigation. Police said a cause of death hadn’t yet been determined
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