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Oregon man found guilty of murder in 1980 cold case of college student after DNA link

Mar. 18, 2024 22:08 PM EDT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man living in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, has been found guilty in the 1980 cold case murder of a 19-year-old college student. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Amy Baggio on Friday found Robert Plympton, 60, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of...

Lawsuit accuses NYC Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting a woman in a vacant lot in 1993

Mar. 18, 2024 16:28 PM EDT

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was accused in a lawsuit Monday of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993 and demanding a sexual favor in exchange for his help advancing her career in the police department. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan, offered the first public details of a...

Shannon helps Illinois move on to bigger stage after Big Ten championship

Mar. 17, 2024 20:36 PM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Terrence Shannon Jr. took over the Big Ten Tournament, putting Illinois in position for much bigger goals. After scoring 34 points in the championship game to lead 13th-ranked Illinois past Wisconsin on Sunday, Shannon received the Most Outstanding Player award...

Former Massachusetts transit officer convicted of raping 2 women in 2012

Mar. 15, 2024 16:40 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — A former transit police officer from Massachusetts was convicted Friday of raping two women more than a decade ago after giving them what prosecutors described as a joyride while on duty in his marked cruiser with its blue lights flashing. Shawn McCarthy, 50, formerly...

Coroner's probe reveals Los Angeles maintenance man was Washington rape suspect believed long dead

Mar. 15, 2024 15:49 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A coroner’s investigation into the death of a man in Los Angeles last month revealed that he was a suspect in a 2008 Washington state child rape who was believed to have jumped to his death from a bridge on Puget Sound years ago, authorities said. Christian...

Woman accuses Dak Prescott of sexual assault after Cowboys QB sues her on extortion claim

Mar. 15, 2024 11:54 AM EDT

DALLAS (AP) — A woman accusing Dak Prescott of sexual assault has filed a police report over the alleged incident in 2017 after the star quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys sued her on a $100 million extortion claim. Dallas police said Thursday there was an ongoing investigation...

Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges

Mar. 13, 2024 20:14 PM EDT

A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter...

Director Roman Polanski is sued over more allegations of sexual assault of a minor

Mar. 12, 2024 18:39 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, on Tuesday. ...

Dozens allege child sexual abuse in Maryland treatment program under newly filed lawsuits

Mar. 12, 2024 17:18 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — More than three dozen people allege in two lawsuits filed Tuesday that they were sexually abused as children at a Maryland residential program for youths that closed in 2017 following similar allegations. In the separate lawsuits, atorneys detailed decades of...

A US man is sentenced to life in prison for murder and rape in attack on 2 American women in Germany

Mar. 11, 2024 17:45 PM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — An American man was convicted of murder and other charges on Monday for brutally attacking two American women near Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them. He was sentenced to life in prison. The...