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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — State Attorney Willie Meggs said Saturday it is unlikely that a final decision will be made before Thanksgiving on whether to charge Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston in a sexual assault case. Meggs’s comments came just a day after the family of the alleged victim sent out a statement disputing the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court refused Friday to toss out court rulings finding that New York City carried out its police stop-and-frisk policy in a discriminatory manner, ending what was likely the city’s last chance to nullify the decisions before the arrival of a new mayor who has criticized the tactic. A […]
Just before 1st Lt. Schanna Speight-Johnson got out of the Air Force in November of 2008, she asked God, “What can I do?” Her answer didn’t come immediately. For a month she searched for a job back home in her native Jacksonville, Fla. Then she ran into a former high school classmate who told her […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The estranged wife of George Zimmerman said Thursday she thinks her husband has unraveled since he was acquitted in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. “I don’t know who George is anymore,” Shellie Zimmerman said on Katie Couric’s show “Katie.” After his murder trial, he became unpredictable and “a pacing lion.” […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The attorney for Florida State’s Jameis Winston says the quarterback volunteered a DNA sample last week to the Tallahassee Police Department as part of the sexual assault investigation involving his client. Tim Jansen said at a Thursday press conference that he is upset that the information was leaked and made public […]
Federal prosecutors want former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to pay about $4.5 million for the rampant corruption that took place under his watch, reports the Associated Press. Kilpatrick began a 28-year prison sentence in October for rigging contracts, taking bribes and putting his own price on public business. Prosecutors on Thursday filed their recommendation for […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Honoring the legacy of John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the assassinated president’s gravesite as a nation remembers that terrible day in Dallas a half-century ago Friday. Obama also recognized a group of distinguished Americans — including Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey — with the Presidential Medal of […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The family and attorney of the alleged victim in a sexual assault investigation involving Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston on Wednesday sharply criticized Tallahassee police in their first public comments about the case. The lengthy family statement said their attorney, Patricia Carroll, was warned by police that Tallahassee was a “big […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Zapiro, an award-winning South African cartoonist, likes to stir things up, and he did that by putting words in Nelson Mandela‘s mouth. Jonathan Shapiro, who signs “Zapiro” on his cartoons, said his newspaper editors grew edgy earlier this year when he submitted an image of an ailing Mandela in bed, holding hands […]
A father from Westminster, Colo., posted a selfie of himself with his baby girl on Facebook before shooting her and himself in an attempted murder-suicide,…
What began as a traffic stop turned into a wild police chase that led to a New Mexico State police officer shooting at a van…
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman‘s arrest following a domestic dispute with his girlfriend marks the latest in a series of brushes with the law…