Posted in Law and Order, Politics on Aug 18th, 2008
The City Council’s effort to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at a trial-like hearing was blocked shortly before it would have begun Monday by a judge who ruled that the city charter does not give the council such power.
The ruling by Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Ziolkowski is a rare legal win for Kilpatrick, who has [...]
Posted in Law and Order, Politics on Aug 15th, 2008
A judge ruled Friday that there’s enough evidence for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to stand trial on two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation with two investigators.
The investigators testified that an angry Kilpatrick shoved one of them into the other and made racial remarks while they were trying to deliver a subpoena in the mayor’s [...]
Posted in Law and Order on Aug 15th, 2008
A Louisiana teenager who hung nooses off the back of his truck to intimidate a group of black civil rights demonstrators has been sentenced to four months in prison.
Federal prosecutors say 19-year-old Jeremiah Munsen displayed the nooses when he drove past people who had attended a massive civil rights march in Jena on Sept. 20.
Munsen [...]
Posted in Law and Order on Aug 14th, 2008
Authorities say a Las Vegas man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of former Olympic boxer Rhoshii Wells.
Las Vegas police say 26-year-old Roger Randolph was arrested by Arizona state troopers Wednesday in a traffic stop near the Nevada state line.
Randolph was wanted in the Monday shooting at a Las Vegas apartment complex that left [...]
Posted in Law and Order, Video on Aug 12th, 2008
Posted in Law and Order on Aug 12th, 2008
A northeast Georgia man has been charged with holding his wife and four children captive for three years inside their mobile home.
Lavonia Police Chief Bruce Carlisle says 36-year-old Raymond Daniel Thurmond was arrested Tuesday when he showed up for work. He has been charged with rape, child abuse and false imprisonment.
He is awaiting a bond [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Law and Order on Aug 11th, 2008
The harrowing final moments of the 24-year-old woman who was beaten to death at a New York night club during Lil Kim’s birthday party were revealed in court Friday during the suspect’s arraignment.
Syed Rahman, also 24, was charged Thursday with second-degree murder, which carries a sentence of life in prison if convicted. He’s [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Law and Order on Aug 11th, 2008
After an overnight jail stay, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was released on Friday afternoon, but with new restrictions on his movements and facing brand new assault charges.
A judge overturned a lower court ruling that revoked Kilpatrick’s bond because of an unapproved trip to Canada in July, ruling the mayor should have been allowed some [...]
Posted in Law and Order, Politics, Scandal on Aug 7th, 2008
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was jailed Thursday for a bond violation in his perjury case, his pleas for leniency rejected by a judge who made it clear the mayor would get no special treatment.
Kilpatrick, charged with perjury and other felonies over his testimony in a civil trial, apologized and acknowledged that he made a mistake when [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Law and Order on Aug 6th, 2008
SEBOKENG, South Africa — A court has postponed resumption of the trial of a former dormitory matron accused of indecently assaulting and abusing six teenagers at Oprah Winfrey’s school for poor South African girls.
Prosecutor Etienne Venter says the trial will continue Oct. 22, 24 and 28 at the Sebokeng magistrates court.
Defendant Tiny Virginia Makopo pleaded [...]
Posted in Law and Order on Aug 6th, 2008
A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black.
The all-white jury found Sgt. Joseph Chavalia not guilty of misdemeanor charges of negligent homicide and negligent assault. He had [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Law and Order on Aug 5th, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered John A. “Junior” Gotti held without bail after the man who insisted he had retired from a life of crime was arrested on charges linking him to three killings and large-scale cocaine trafficking.
Earlier Tuesday, federal prosecutor Robert O’Neill announced the indictment in Tampa, Fla., of [...]
Posted in Law and Order on Aug 5th, 2008
Gotti, 44, was arrested by the FBI at his Long Island home. Federal authorities in Tampa, Fla., are expected to announce a racketeering indictment, charging Gotti with murder conspiracy in connection with killings in the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Law and Order, Scandal on Aug 5th, 2008
The former child-star, famous for playing Michelle Tanner on “Full House,” was a close friend of Ledger’s and the first person called after her masseuse discovered Ledger’s body in his Soho apartment in January, The Post said.
But federal officials could force the actress to tell them details on the “Dark Knight” star’s drug use and [...]
Posted in Law and Order, Politics, Scandal on Jul 29th, 2008
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison on Tuesday for his role in the cut-rate sales of city land to his former mistress.
U.S. District Judge William Martini gave James 27 months and ordered him to pay a $100,000 fine, but did not require [...]
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