Now 82 and slowed by age, NAACP activist Claudette Colvin is asking a court in Montgomery to wipe away her 1955 conviction for assaulting a police officer during a bus incident that occurred months before Rosa Parks' historic case.
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Genealogy websites and a cheek swab enabled U.S. Marshals to arrest a man suspected of being the “Potomac River Rapist,” who terrorized the nation’s capital in the 1990s. News outlets report 60-year-old Giles Daniel Warrick is now awaiting extradition from Horry County, South Carolina. He’s accused of raping 10 women and […]
Prosecutors set to defend Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault conviction in appeals court next month call the accusations from other women no coincidence, but “the culmination of a decades-long pattern of behavior.” Cosby, a long-beloved actor and comedian, was convicted in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. He turned 82 this month while serving […]
