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Seven shot in Philadelphia, including 2-year-old and four teens

24 Feb 2023

(Reuters) – Seven people, including a 2-year-old child and four teenagers, were shot and wounded at a Philadelphia street corner, the city’s police chief said on Thursday. The 2-year-old’s mother was among the victims, Philadelphia Police Chief Danielle Outlaw told a news conference. The most seriously wounded victim was a teen listed in critical condition, …

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Accused LGBTQ club shooter to stand trial in Colorado for murder, hate crimes

24 Feb 2023

(Editors: note language in 12th paragraph) By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado judge on Thursday ordered the suspect accused of fatally shooting five people and injuring dozens of others at an LGBTQ nightclub last year to stand trial on 323 counts stemming from the massacre, including murder and hate-crime charges. Prosecutors presented sufficient …

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Judge tosses attorney ethics case against Trump ally Sidney Powell

24 Feb 2023

By David Thomas (Reuters) – A Texas judge has thrown out disciplinary charges that state regulators filed last year against pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, finding “numerous defects” in the evidence presented. The State Bar of Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline sued Powell last March, claiming she “had no reasonable basis” for filing lawsuits challenging U.S. …

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S. Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh admits lying, denies guilt at murder trial

24 Feb 2023

By Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Richard “Alex” Murdaugh, the disbarred South Carolina attorney charged with murdering his wife and son, admitted to lying to investigators about his whereabouts on the night of the killings but denied any guilt in dramatic testimony on Thursday. Four weeks into the high-profile trial, Murdaugh took the stand to testify that …

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R. Kelly’s 2nd conviction extends earlier 30-year sentence by a year

24 Feb 2023

By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday sentenced R. Kelly to one additional year in prison for his conviction on sex crimes, extending a 30-year sentence handed to the Grammy-winning R&B singer after an earlier trial in New York, local media reported. At a 90-minute hearing, Judge Harry Leinenweber of …

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Bankman-Fried faces more criminal charges, allegedly hid political donations

24 Feb 2023

By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried was hit with new criminal charges on Thursday, in an expanded indictment accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of conspiring to make more than 300 illegal political donations. Bankman-Fried now faces 12 criminal charges, including four for fraud and eight …

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Ozy Media, CEO Carlos Watson charged with scheming to defraud investors

23 Feb 2023

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Ozy Media and its CEO Carlos Watson have been criminally charged for scheming to defraud investors of tens of millions dollars by misrepresenting the company’s debts, financial performance and audience size, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said Thursday. Watson and Ozy Media are charged with securities fraud and wire fraud. Watson, who was …

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Earlier warning might have spared Ohio a derailment, US investigator says

23 Feb 2023

By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Brad Brooks EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (Reuters) – A U.S. train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals in an Ohio town might have been avoided if the railway company’s alarm system had given engineers an earlier warning that bearings were overheating, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday with …

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U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘major questions’ test may doom Biden student debt plan

23 Feb 2023

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Shanna Hayes in 2007 became the first member of her immediate family to attend college. She did not realize she was setting off on a path toward another, less-welcome family first – racking up more than $150,000 in student debt. “At no point did I actually have that conversation,” …

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Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in ‘Rust’ shooting

23 Feb 2023

(Reuters) – Actor Alec Baldwin entered a not guilty plea on Thursday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter stemming from a fatal shooting on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust,” court documents show. Baldwin made the plea while exercising his right to waive a first court appearance that was set for Friday. Baldwin, …

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