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Vermont day care provider convicted of causing infant's death with doses of antihistamine
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — A child care provider accused of sedating an infant with an antihistamine was convicted of manslaughter, and faces up to 25 years in prison when she's sentenced. A jury on Friday convicted of Stacey Vaillancourt of manslaughter and child cruelty in the 2019...
Jury orders egg suppliers to pay $17.7 million in damages for price gouging in 2000s
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal jury in Illinois ordered $17.7 million in damages — an amount tripled to more than $53 million under federal law — to several food manufacturing companies who had sued major egg producers over a conspiracy to limit the egg supply in the U.S. The...
Illinois appeals court affirms actor Jussie Smollett's convictions and jail sentence
An appeals court upheld the disorderly conduct convictions Friday of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lying about it to Chicago police. Smollett, who appeared in the TV show “Empire,” challenged the role of...
Infrequent grand juries can mean long pretrial waits in jail in Mississippi, survey shows
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Most people in Mississippi's county jails have been locked up at least three months without formal charges while waiting to go on trial. Some have longer wait times because two-thirds of the counties only convene grand juries two or three times a year, according to a survey...
Arizona officials who refused to canvass election results indicted by grand jury
PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in a rural Arizona county who delayed canvassing the 2022 general election results have been criminally charged, the state's top prosecutor said Wednesday. A grand jury in Maricopa County Superior Court has indicted Cochise County supervisors Peggy Judd and...
Actor Jonathan Majors appears in court as jury selection begins in New York assault trial
NEW YORK (AP) — The actor Jonathan Majors appeared in court in New York on Wednesday for the start of jury selection in a trial in which he is accused of injuring his then-girlfriend during an argument last spring. The trial could wind up playing a big role in what happens next...
Jury to decide whether officer fatally shooting handcuffed man was justified
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — A Maryland jury will decide in the coming weeks whether a Prince George’s County police officer broke the law when he shot and killed a handcuffed man in 2020. A trial began Tuesday for Michael Owen Jr., who had served on the police force for 10 years...
A teen is found guilty of second-degree murder in a New Orleans carjacking that horrified the city
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A now 18-year-old teenager faces life behind bars after being found guilty of second-degree murder in last year's heinous carjacking and dragging death of a 73-year-old woman in New Orleans. Jurors deliberated for about four hours Monday before finding the...
Judge cites handwritten will and awards real estate to Aretha Franklin's sons
DETROIT (AP) — A judge overseeing the estate of Aretha Franklin awarded real estate to the late star's sons, citing a handwritten will from 2014 that was found between couch cushions. The decision Monday came four months after a Detroit-area jury said the document was a valid will...
A former Canadian RCMP intelligence official is found guilty of breaching secrets law
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A jury found a former senior intelligence official in Canada’s national police force guilty on Wednesday of breaching the country’s secrets law. Jurors declared Cameron Jay Ortis guilty of three counts of violating the Security of Information Act and one...
