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A growing number of Americans end up in Russian jails. The prospects for their release are unclear

Mar. 29, 2024 01:07 AM EDT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan to visit her family. All of them are U.S. citizens, and all are behind bars in...

Ex-Caltrain employee and contractor charged with building secret homes with public funds

Mar. 28, 2024 22:32 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former employee of Caltrain, a mass transit system that connects Silicon Valley with San Francisco, and a former contractor for the transit agency allegedly used public funds to build two small apartments for themselves inside two train stations, authorities said Thursday. ...

Suspect charged with murder, attempted murder in deadly Rockford rampage

Mar. 28, 2024 20:46 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in a frenzied stabbing and beating rampage that left four people dead in a matter of minutes in a northern Illinois city, authorities said Thursday. Christian Soto is also charged with seven...

Judge rejects officers' bid to erase charges in the case of a man paralyzed after police van ride

Mar. 28, 2024 17:44 PM EDT

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Four former Connecticut police officers accused of mocking and mistreating a man after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van in 2022 were denied bids Thursday to enter a program that could have erased criminal charges against them and let them avoid trial. ...

Orlando city commissioner charged with spending 96-year-old woman's money on a home, personal items

Mar. 28, 2024 16:58 PM EDT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An Orlando city commissioner was arrested Thursday on charges of elderly exploitation, identity fraud and mortgage fraud following accusations that she had spent a constituent's money on herself after getting power of attorney over the 96-year-old woman. Regina...

Sen. Bob Menendez decides not to delay May trial with appeal of judge's ruling

Mar. 28, 2024 16:03 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez will not appeal a judge’s ruling on Constitutional grounds that would have delayed his May trial, his lawyers said Thursday. The Democrat’s lawyers notified the Manhattan federal judge who will preside over the May 6 trial in a...

Trump's team cites First Amendment in contesting charges in Georgia election interference case

Mar. 28, 2024 15:06 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — The charges against Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, a lawyer for the former president said Thursday as he argued that the indictment should be dismissed. ...

Ex-New Mexico lawmaker facing more federal charges, accused of diverting money meant for schools

Mar. 28, 2024 13:39 PM EDT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Former New Mexico state Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton is facing more federal charges related to allegations that she abused her position as an Albuquerque Public Schools administrator. Williams Stapleton is accused of diverting money meant for vocational...

Four students arrested and others are suspended following protest at Vanderbilt University

Mar. 28, 2024 13:24 PM EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Four students were arrested and more than a dozen were suspended for their actions during a protest at Vanderbilt University stemming from the war in Gaza that included an overnight sit-in at an administration building, officials said. The protest began...

Hunter Biden's lawyers push California judge to toss out tax charges

Mar. 27, 2024 20:12 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden asked a judge Wednesday to toss out the tax case accusing him of a four-year scheme to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes while living an extravagant lifestyle. President Joe Biden's son has pleaded not guilty to the nine felony and...