DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Eleven students from Brazil and Chile have filed a federal lawsuit accusing a northwest Iowa community college, a recruitment company, a pet food manufacturer and a packaging company of human trafficking and involuntary servitude. The lawsuit filed Monday in the Northern District of...
They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children. Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in rural Tennessee, was a top cookie seller in her troop when she first heard rainforests were being destroyed to make way for ever-expanding palm oil plantations....
MILTON, Fla. (AP) — A traffic stop on Interstate 10 in Florida's Panhandle led to the arrest of two men suspected of human trafficking, officials said. A Santa Rosa County Sheriff's deputy stopped a vehicle and noticed indicators of possible human trafficking. Two teenage boys from Guatemala were inside...
VERNON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut businessman convicted in what prosecutors called a human trafficking ring involving young men told police that his longtime domestic partner attacked him with two steak knives for no apparent reason, according to court documents released Thursday. Bruce Bemer told...
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — A former professor at a Massachusetts college has been indicted on rape and other charges, prosecutors say. A Plymouth County grand jury returned indictments on Wednesday charging former Bridgewater State University professor Nicholas Pirelli, 37, with rape, indecent assault and...
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York’s newspapers: Don’t Let the Games Begin The New York Times Dec. 30 Look no further than the storied Rose Bowl game to understand the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s disingenuous and perilous posturing about the...
GLASTONBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut businessman convicted in what prosecutors called a human trafficking ring that preyed on young men was stabbed Tuesday night in an apparent domestic violence episode, according to his lawyer. Bruce Bemer has been released from the hospital and is expected to fully...
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge rejected a $28.5 million proposed bail package for Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Monday, saying her incarceration is necessary to ensure she faces trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for the late financier to sexually abuse. U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan...
WASHINGTON (AP) — For a second night in a row, President Donald Trump issued a round of pardons and commutations in the final weeks of his presidency, giving full pardons to his former campaign chairman, his son-in-law’s father and another of his allies convicted in special counsel Robert...
WASHINGTON (AP) — For a second night in a row, President Donald Trump issued a round of pardons and commutations in the final weeks of his presidency, giving full pardons to his former campaign chairman, his son-in-law’s father and another of his allies convicted in special counsel Robert...