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Rohingya hail UN ruling ordering Myanmar to prevent genocide
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In a sweeping legal victory for members of the Rohingya Muslim minority, the United Nations' top court on Thursday ordered Myanmar take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the Rohingya people. The court's president, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, said the...
Police: 6 arrested in fatal shooting during home invasion
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia announced six people have been arrested in the shooting death of a man during a home invasion. Ceuion English, 23; Anthony Foster, 23; Laqwane Kindred, 26; and Trevonuis Williams, 22, were charged with murder and booked in jail Wednesday, news outlets reported...
Man guilty of setting fire in effort to kill wife, her uncle
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — A man has been found guilty of setting a fire that injured two people at his eastern Iowa home. A jury convicted Shane Heins, 45, on Wednesday of arson and two counts of attempted murder. He'd pleaded guilty June 16 to misdemeanor domestic abuse assault, second offense. The online...
Michelle Carter, of texting suicide case, is leaving jail
BOSTON (AP) — A woman convicted of manslaughter for urging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in 2014 is set to leave jail Thursday morning. The impending release of Michelle Carter comes after she served most of a 15-month sentence at the Bristol County jail in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The...
Ex-pharmaceutical exec to be sentenced for pushing opioid
BOSTON (AP) — The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company is expected to be sentenced in Boston's federal court Thursday for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme that prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis. John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found...
Connecticut deals with 3 fatal police shootings in new year
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three fatal police shootings in Connecticut since the start of the New Year have raised questions over the use of deadly force by law enforcement in a state that normally sees about a half-dozen such shootings each year. The deaths of Michael Gregory in Ansonia, Mubarak Soulemane...
Weinstein trial turns to accusers, starting with Sciorra
NEW YORK (AP) — For years, actress Annabella Sciorra felt powerless against Harvey Weinstein, keeping to all but a few friends the allegation that the once-revered Hollywood honcho pinned her to a bed and raped her in the early 1990s. Now, more than a quarter-century later, Sciorra is set to confront...
Police bust ring accused of smuggling 10,000 migrants to UK
PARIS (AP) — French and Dutch police have arrested 23 suspected members of a criminal network that has smuggled as many as 10,000 migrants from France to Britain, according to the European police agency Europol. The network was suspected of earning 70 million euros ($77.6 million) in profits by organizing...
Florida man sentenced for device fraud, identity theft
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to four years in prison nearly a year after pleading guilty to charges that he made fraudulent withdrawals from automated teller machines and used skimmers to get money from other ATMs, a federal prosecutor said. U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon Jr. said in...
W.Va. woman arrested nearly a month after fatal hit-and-run
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash has been arrested nearly a month after the collision, police said Wednesday. The Morgantown Police Department said Codie Leigh Richards, 27, was arrested at her home for the Dec. 28 crash. A news release from the...
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