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Colorado

Garth Brooks claims he was “harassed” for “millions” before sexual assault lawsuit

Garth Brooks claimed he was “harassed for millions of dollars” before being sued for sexual assault and rape by an alleged ex-employee. “For the past two months, I have been endlessly plagued with threats, lies and tragic stories about what…

October 4, 2024 Madoc Meredith

Tennessee

Former Memphis police officers found guilty

Video: Ben Crump discusses the Tire Nichols federal trial Attorney Ben Crump weighs in on the federal trial of former MPD officers accused of violating Tire Nichols’ civil rights in the third week of the trial. After deliberating for about…

October 4, 2024 Eira Gwyneth

Idaho

Election-denying Colorado employee sentenced to nine years in prison for machine tampering

Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts of tampering with Mesa County’s voting machines. The judge in the case told her Thursday that he was confident she would do it again. A former Republican county clerk who spread election conspiracy…

October 3, 2024 Madoc Meredith

Massachusetts

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has ‘confessed to taking a child in Portugal’ as cellmate drops court bombshell

MADELEINE McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has confessed to an inmate that he kidnapped a child from a Portuguese apartment, a court sensationally heard today. The 47-year-old pedophile Brueckner is said to have confided his past after asking his cellmate Laurentiu…

September 26, 2024 Idris Bevan

Colorado

Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri despite doubts about his conviction | Death penalty news

The 55-year-old was convicted in 2003 of the murder of Lisha Gayle during an apparently botched burglary. Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of murder 21 years ago, was executed in the midwestern state of Missouri despite doubts about the integrity…

September 25, 2024 Madoc Meredith

Alabama

KFOR sues Ryan Walters and his spokesman for access to meetings

(This story has been updated to add new information.) Oklahoma City television station KFOR has sued state school superintendent Ryan Walters and his press secretary Dan Isett because, according to the station, they denied its journalists access to the State…

September 24, 2024 Idris Bevan

Frisco

Missouri executes man for 1998 murder of woman despite her family’s requests to spare his life

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman’s home and killing her, despite demands from her family and the prosecutor who put him on death row to let him spend the rest…

September 24, 2024 Bronwen Cerys

Washington

Jury acquits all but one defendant in Texas Trump train trial

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September 24, 2024 Madoc Meredith

Alabama

Lawyers ask the Supreme Court to intervene just hours before the scheduled execution of a Missouri inmate

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri – Lawyers for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed Tuesday night have filed a new appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming racial bias and constitutional errors occurred during his trial. Marcellus Williams, 55, long maintained…

September 24, 2024 Idris Bevan

Washington

What you need to know: Tuesday, September 24 | News from Mid-Missouri

Missouri Supreme Court rejects request to stay Marcellus Williams’ execution The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered the state to carry out tonight’s execution of Marcellus Williams for the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle. A lawyer for Williams argued before…