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Iowa attorney general not finished with audit that's holding up contraception money for rape victims

Mar. 27, 2024 13:43 PM EDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its victim services that has held up emergency contraception funding for victims of sexual assault. Attorney General Brenna Bird, a Republican, paused the funding while awaiting the...

2 high school wrestling team members in West Virginia are charged with sexual assault

Mar. 27, 2024 12:48 PM EDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two West Virginia minors are facing sexual assault and other charges following an alleged incident at a hotel involving members of a high school wrestling team, authorities say. Raleigh County Sheriff James Canaday said the perpetrators are each facing two...

Authorities searched Diddy's properties as part of a sex trafficking probe. Here's what to know

Mar. 26, 2024 19:49 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the first nine months of 2023, Sean “Diddy” Combs triumphantly performed at the MTV VMAs, released an R&B album that received a Grammy nomination and was a suitor to buy the BET network. But several lawsuits filed late last year raised allegations of...

Convicted sex offender who hacked jumbotron at the Jacksonville Jaguars' stadium gets 220 years

Mar. 26, 2024 19:43 PM EDT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A convicted child molester has been sentenced to 220 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material and hacking the jumbotron at the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium after the team learned he was a registered sex offender and fired him. A...

Indictment accuses Rwandan man of lying about role in his country's 1994 genocide to come to US

Mar. 26, 2024 19:15 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — A Rwandan man who authorities say killed people with a machete and raped women in the country’s 1994 genocide before immigrating to the U.S. was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Boston. Eric Nshimiye, of Ohio, is accused of repeatedly lying about his...

A woman accuses a schoolmate of raping her at age 12. The school system says she is making it up.

Mar. 26, 2024 15:11 PM EDT

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A 24-year-old woman told jurors Tuesday that she was repeatedly raped and sexually harassed a decade ago as a seventh-grade student in Virginia, and that school officials reacted to her pleas for help with indifference. Lawyers for the school system say she...

Timeline of the Assange legal saga as he faces further delay in bid to avoid extradition to the US

Mar. 26, 2024 09:21 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — After fighting for more than a decade to avoid being sent to the U.S., WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing further delays in learning whether he can make a new legal challenge against his extradition. Assange, 52, faces charges related to his organization's...

Feds search Sean 'Diddy' Combs’ properties as part of sex trafficking probe, AP sources say

Mar. 25, 2024 21:40 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Two properties belonging to music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in Los Angeles and Miami were searched Monday by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation by federal authorities in New York, two law...

West Virginia governor signs law removing marital assault exemption

Mar. 22, 2024 17:54 PM EDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Certain sexual assaults against a spouse will now be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a law signed Friday by Republican Gov. Jim Justice. The law removes marriage as a defense to first- and third-degree sexual assault. ...

Former soccer star Robinho starts 9-year prison sentence in Brazil for 2013 rape in Italy

Mar. 21, 2024 20:26 PM EDT

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former soccer star Robinho started serving a nine-year prison sentence in his native Brazil on Thursday more than 10 years after he was first accused of raping a woman in Italy. The 40-year-old Robinho left his apartment building in the beachfront city of Santos,...