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Judge forges ahead with pretrial motions in Georgia election interference case

Mar. 28, 2024 00:18 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — The charges against former President Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, his lawyers argued in a court filing challenging the indictment. Fulton County...

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...

An indicted Tennessee judge is sent to jail after her bond is revoked for positive cocaine tests

Mar. 27, 2024 19:46 PM EDT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee criminal court judge was sent to jail Wednesday after her bond was revoked for testing positive for cocaine while she was out of custody pending a trial on charges of coercion of a witness and harassment. Online records showed Shelby County...

Truck driver indicted on murder charges in crash that killed Massachusetts officer, utility worker

Mar. 27, 2024 17:37 PM EDT

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — A pickup truck driver accused of crashing into and killing a police officer and a utility employee at a work site in a Boston suburb, then pulling a knife on another officer before stealing his cruiser, has been indicted on two counts of second degree murder and other...

Illinois Supreme Court to hear actor Jussie Smollett appeal of conviction for staging racist attack

Mar. 27, 2024 17:13 PM EDT

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court will hear an appeal of actor Jussie Smollett's disorderly conduct conviction for staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019, then lying to Chicago police about it. The court on Wednesday accepted the appeal...

Judge dismisses murder charges ex-Houston officer had faced over 2019 drug raid

Mar. 27, 2024 16:42 PM EDT

HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston police officer who led a 2019 deadly drug raid that prompted a probe which revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit and resulted in nearly two dozen convictions being overturned has won a legal victory after a judge...

Suspects plead not guilty in human smuggling case involving Indian family's death on Canada border

Mar. 27, 2024 15:34 PM EDT

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of human smuggling. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 28, who...

Missouri boarding school closes as state agency examines how it responded to abuse claims

Mar. 27, 2024 14:38 PM EDT

A rural Missouri boarding school at the center of abuse allegations has closed its doors, and a state agency is trying to determine if it adequately responded to previous concerns about the facility in calls to an abuse hotline. The closure of ABM Ministries' Lighthouse Christian...

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...

UK court says Assange can't be extradited on espionage charges until US rules out death penalty

Mar. 26, 2024 20:40 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won't get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site's publication of...