Kevin Johnson,Rick Jervis and Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY May 18, 2018 It’s not USA TODAY’s policy to identify minors charged with crimes. Due to the magnitude of this school shooting and the fact the suspect has been charged as an adult, USA TODAY has decided to identify him. SANTA FE, Texas —The 17-year-old suspect…
The crazy underworld of NFL undrafted free agency
es.pn/2ItMza1 May 11, 2018 Jordan RaananESPN Staff Writer The NFL draft stretched three days and took in excess of 13 real-time hours for all the selections to be made. When it all wrapped, there were a total of 256 players selected by the league’s 32 teams. Then the real chaos ensued. The draft quickly…
Man who was exonerated of murder after 16 years in prison will soon be a lawyer
Nancy CutlerUpdated 7:19 p.m. ET May 9, 2019 Rockland/Westchester Journal News https://www.lohud.com/videos/news/local/westchester/2019/05/09/jeffrey-deskovic-wrongly-convicted-law-school-graduate/1143445001/ Jeffrey Deskovic, 45, talks about his experience before taking the final test for his law degree at Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law in White Plains May 8, 2019. Tania Savayan, tsavayan@lohud.com WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – It seems both improbable and inevitable…
Took an ancestry DNA test? You might be a ‘genetic informant’ unleashing secrets about your relatives
Ashley MayUpdated 7:16 a.m. ET May 1, 2018 USA Today A DNA match ties a former police officer to some of the crimes committed by a California serial killer behind at least 12 homicides and 45 rapes throughout the state in the 1970s and '80s, police officials announced Wednesday. You just wanted to…
ISIS offshoot in Afghanistan willing, able to strike US, says intelligence official
Tom Vanden BrookUpdated 8:39 a.m. ET April 17, 2019 WASHINGTON – ISIS-affiliated terrorists in Afghanistan, noted for their brutality in a brutal land, pose the top threat for spectacular attacks in the United States, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official. The group known as ISIS-K, like al-Qaeda, which plotted the 9/11 terror attacks from Afghanistan, also…
California engineer poisoned his colleague for 18 months, police say. He’s charged with attempted murder
N'dea Yancey-Bragg Updated 12:08 p.m. ET April 4, 2019 Court documents show the alleged poisoning went on for 18 months. USA TODAY An engineer in California has been arrested on suspicion of trying to kill a co-worker by poisoning her for more than a year. Berkeley police arrested David Xu, 34, last week on…
The Electoral College is undemocratic? Of course. That’s why it works.
USA Today - April 2, 2019 Here are 3 things you need to know about the electoral college. Wochit We've listened to two years of complaints about how President Donald Trump is destroying the norms of democracy. But as the endless parade of Democrats announce their candidacy for the White House, they want to destroy several…
Utah ready to lower its drunken-driving threshold to .05, the strictest standard in the nation. Will other states follow?
Jorge L. OrtizUpdated 10:49 a.m. ET Dec. 20, 2018 Just in time to ring in 2019, Utah will start a stricter drunk driving law which lowers the legal blood alcohol content from .08 to .05. Veuer's Justin Kircher has more.Buzz60 One more drink? How New Year's revelers in Utah answer that question could put them…
Tennessee uses electric chair to execute double-murderer
Yihyun Jeong, Adam Tamburin and Nicole Young, Nashville - Tennessean Published 8:36 p.m. ET Nov. 1, 2018 Edmund Zagorski was executed in Tennessee on Oct. 1, 2018 Ayrika L Whitney, The Tennessean NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Death row inmate Edmund Zagorski died at 7:26 p.m. CDT Thursday after Tennessee prison officials electrocuted him with the electric chair. He…
Carruth’s son to attend Ravens-Panthers game
Carruth's son to attend Ravens-Panthers game David Newton ESPN Staff Writer October 26, 2018 Six days after former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth was released from prison, where he served nearly 19 years for conspiracy to commit murder, one notable person in attendance at Sunday's NFL game at Bank of America Stadium…
Contestants accuse Mrs. America pageant president of racist remarks – CNN
By Emanuella Grinberg and Pierre Meilhan, CNN Updated 4:58 AM ET, Tue October 16, 2018 (CNN) — Three African-American state pageant winners said they were expecting to have the time of their lives at the 2018 Mrs. America competition in Las Vegas in August. Instead, they say the pageant's white CEO and president insulted them…
Add divorce to the list of things Millennials are killing
Ryan W. MillerUpdated 1:59 p.m. ET Sept. 26, 2018 Millennials are apparently saving the marriage institution. Or at least lowering the divorce rate in the country. Bras, top sheets, sleeping with clothes and now ... divorce. Millennials get blamed for "killing" many trends, and the latest example might mean everyone's favorite generation to hate is in it for…
Daughter kills dad after finding his child porn collection, say police. She buried her secret for 12 years
Ryan W. MillerUpdated 6:57 p.m. ET July 13, 2018 USA TODAY A U.K. woman has been sentenced to nine years in prison for brutally murdering her father, after reportedly finding a box of explicit childhood photos of herself and another child among his things. Buzz60 A British woman was gardening at her father's house when…
Dad says Santa Fe shooting suspect was bullied; school rejects claim
Dad says Santa Fe shooting suspect was bullied; school rejects claim John Bacon Updated 7:55 p.m. ET May 22, 2018 USA TODAY Eight students and two teachers were killed in the Santa Fe High School shooting. Here are their stories. USA TODAY The father of the teen accused of fatally shooting 10 people at…
Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas is at least the 20th of 2018
William Cummings Updated 3:00 a.m. ET May 19, 2018 The shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas is not only the latest school shooting, but it's also one of the deadliest in modern U.S. history. USA TODAY "This has been going on for too long in our country, too many years, too…
Gay Division I football player won’t come out: ‘Not ashamed, just scared’
Erik Brady Updated 1:46 p.m. ET May 18, 2018 SportsPulse: Arian Foster wants you to know he's an artist who happened to play football. He also wants you to know the current state of the NFL doesn't allow players to share their emotions the way they should. Alone in the Game is a new documentary…
How Lions might have missed Matt Patricia allegation
es.pn/2IaSHEL May 12, 2018 Michael Rothstein ESPN Staff Writer ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Matt Patricia's 1996 arrest and indictment on a charge of aggravated sexual assault in Texas came as a surprise to his NFL employers. The Detroit Lions said they didn't know. The New England Patriots, in a statement, said they were unaware, as…
German man ordered to pay child support after ex-wife forges signature for IVF pregnancy
Alexander Pearson, Deutsche WellePublished 6:00 a.m. ET May 3, 2018 - USA Today A German man has been ordered to pay child support after his ex-wife forged his signature to have a child via IVF. Nathan Rousseau Smith has the bizarre story.Buzz60 A woman in Germany forged her ex-husband's signature twice to…
A pardon expert emailed me his life’s work before killing his two sons and himself
Gregory Korte, USA TODAY Published 11:52 a.m. ET March 14, 2018 | Updated 7:45 p.m. ET March 26, 2018 A White House correspondent tries to reconcile a professor's valuable contribution to the study of the presidential mercy with his horrific final acts. (Photo: via Twitter) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 38COMMENTEMAILMORE EDITOR'S NOTE: A version of this essay…
Oregon couple’s final days captured in intimate aid-in-dying video
JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Published 7:37 a.m. ET March 12, 2018 | Updated 3:14 p.m. ET March 12, 2018 On the last morning of their lives, Charlie and Francie Emerick held hands. The Portland, Ore., couple, married for 66 years and both terminally ill, died together in their bed on April 20, 2017,…
Switzerland makes it illegal to boil lobsters
USA Today 2/17/2018 GENEVA — When it comes to cooking fresh lobster, the Swiss are now saying: We feel your pain. A law takes effect March 1 that bans the common cooking method of tossing a live lobster into a pot of boiling water, quickly killing the tasty crustacean. That practice is being outlawed because the Swiss say…
Ohio Supreme Court Denies Law License for Grad with $170,000 in Student Loans Court Says High Debt Fails ‘Fitness Test’ But Most Law Grads Have Pile of Loans
By SUSANNA KIM Jan. 18. 2011 While many law school graduates are all too aware of their accumulating pile of debt, few may realize it can prevent them from practicing law and kill any hopes of paying down their loans. Just ask recent law grad Hassan Jonathan Griffin. The highest court in Ohio denied his bar…
Newly released FBI documents reveal disturbing details about Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza
Kevin Johnson,Nicole Gaudiano and Julia Fair, USA TODAY Published 3:01 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2017 | Updated 8:27 a.m. ET Oct. 25, 2017 WASHINGTON – The FBI on Tuesday released some 1,500 pages from its investigation into the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school, painting a dark portrait of the young man who carried out one of the…
Rock dropped from I-75 overpass leads to murder charges for 5 teens
USA TODAY NETWORK John Wisely, Detroit Free PressPublished 11:01 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2017 | Updated 8:12 a.m. ET Oct. 24, 2017 DETROIT — Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton Monday charged five teens with second-degree murder for the death of a motorist killed Oct. 18 by a piece of concrete dropped off an Interstate 75 overpass. Kenneth…
Vanderbilt linebacker Chris Marve tries to tackle career in law
By Jim Wyatt | The Tennessean March 3, 2012 "Chris Marve is bypassing the NFL to pursue his dream of becoming an attorney or judge. Already accepted by one law school, he's working at Nashville's Neal & Harwell law firm while awaiting other offers. - GEORGE WALKER IV / THE TENNESSEAN Chris Marve has spent…
Philadelphia Man Moves to Foreclose on Wells Fargo Over Mortgage
Homeowner Says Mortgage Company Failed to Respond to His Questions, So He Took Them to Court BY SUSANNA KIM Feb. 17, 2011 When a Philadelphia man became fed up with his bank for failing to respond to his mortgage questions, he took them to court and won. In a twist that will warm the…
3 mass shootings in the past 17 months have been among the nation’s bloodiest
Susan Miller Updated 8:18 a.m. ET Nov. 6, 2017 USA TODAY Three mass shootings have rocked the U.S. in the past 17 months — and they have been some of the nation's bloodiest. That grim statistic was reached Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a small and humble place of worship in Texas, leaving at least 25 people dead. The…
Detailed claims in Houston Nutt’s lawsuit make case Ole Miss definitely owes an apology
Dan Wolken Updated 7:00 p.m. ET Oct. 12, 2017 - USA Today On Jan. 29, 2016, as Ole Miss coaches were preparing for a crucial recruiting weekend just ahead of National Signing Day, Pat Forde of Yahoo! Sports broke the story that the NCAA had delivered a Notice of Allegations to the school, alleging…
Suing Over Jobs – Class Action Against Law Schools for Fraud on Employment Numbers
by: Scott Jaschik / Inside Highered.com / August 11, 2011 All three law schools deny the charges. And Cooley has already filed a defamation suit against the lawyers suing it. But the litigation comes amid a broader debate over whether the American Bar Association and others are doing enough to promote the release of…
Huguette Clark, NYC Heiress, Leaves $34 Million to Nurse
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES June 23, 2011 In 1991, Hadassah Peri was randomly chosen to look after copper-mining heiress Huguette Clark, who chose to live as a recluse for decades at New York City's Beth Israel Hospital. Clark died at the age of 104 in May, leaving Peri, a private nurse from Brooklyn, a rich…
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