A Los Angeles nun and school principal who stole more than $800,000 to pay for a gambling habit was sentenced Monday to a year in federal prison. Mary Margaret Kreuper, 80, admitted to stealing the money from 2008 to 2018 while she was principal at St. James Catholic School in …
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Fashion Nova will pay $4.2 million to settle allegations that the online retailer blocked negative customer reviews from being posted on its website, the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday in announcing the first-of-its kind case for the agency. The California retailer, which mostly sells its “fast-fashion” products online, suppressed reviews …
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Four new indictments were issued Friday against once-prominent lawyer Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina Attorney General’s office announced. The 27 new charges outlined in the indictments include breach of trust with fraudulent intent and computer crimes. At the time of the announcement, the 53-year-old Murdaugh was in custody at the …
Read More »Detroit — The parents of a teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school didn’t anticipate that he would commit violence and are “devastated” like others in the community, a lawyer said Wednesday in requesting that they be granted a lower bond. James and Jennifer Crumbley are …
Read More »A judge has declared a mistrial in a South Florida murder trial one day after the jury delivered a manslaughter verdict, only to have its decision rescinded moments later when a juror said she didn’t agree. It happened in the trial of Dayonte Resiles, who is accused of killing Jill …
Read More »Police in eastern Washington say they have solved the slaying of a 9-year-old girl, 62 years after the crime occurred. The Spokane Police Department used advanced DNA analysis, forensic genealogy and traditional detective work to name John Reigh Hoff as the killer of young Candice “Candy” Elaine Rogers in 1959. …
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Brian Williams, who remade his career as an MSNBC host after losing his job as NBC “Nightly News” anchor for making false claims about a wartime story, is leaving the network after 28 years. Williams said in a note to colleagues that “following much reflection,” he had decided to exit …
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Buffalo is the second-biggest city in New York. It’s the third-poorest city in the nation. It could soon be the first major American city in six decades to elect a socialist as mayor. And now, Buffalo is a flashpoint for the national divides in the Democratic Party. “This race has …
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One person was killed and another was wounded after Alec Baldwin’s prop firearm discharged on the set of the movie “Rust” on Thursday, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office. Baldwin is starring in and co-producing the Western film. Alec Baldwin calls fatal movie set shooting a “tragic accident” …
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Montezuma, Iowa — Investigators searching for an Iowa boy who vanished in May days before his 11th birthday said Thursday they have found human remains matching his description in a nearby cornfield. The remains were discovered by a farmer working in a field a few miles outside of Montezuma, where …
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