Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students at a home near campus in November, appeared in an Idaho court Thursday for the second time. A preliminary hearing for his case was set for June 26. He waived his right to a speedy preliminary hearing, with …
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A CBS News investigation has uncovered a massive backlog of court cases that has delayed progress on hundreds of thousands of criminal cases across the United States. CBS News obtained and analyzed data from courts and district attorneys’ offices in more than a dozen major American cities and found “pending” …
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Authorities in Valley, Alabama, have arrested an 82-year-old woman for failing to pay several months’ worth of trash bills. Martha Louis Menefield was arrested and released on bond Nov. 27, Valley Police Chief Mike Reynolds said in a statement posted to Facebook Tuesday. In August, Menefield had been issued a …
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The Justice Department indicated Thursday that it plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate a Biden administration plan that would provide student loan forgiveness to millions of Americans. This comes after the plan has been blocked by two separate federal court rulings. On Monday, the 8th Circuit Court of …
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The University of Virginia canceled its final home football game of the season Wednesday, the same day a student accused of killing three members of the team and wounding two other students in an on-campus shooting appeared in court for his first hearing. “The Virginia athletics department announced today (Nov. …
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Powerball announced Tuesday a single winning ticket was sold in California for a world-record $2.04 billion jackpot. The announcement came after a lengthy delay in revealing the winning numbers. The winning numbers are 10, 33, 41, 47 and 56 with a Powerball of 10. California lottery officials said on Twitter the winning ticket …
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Comedian Amy Schumer revealed Sunday that her young son was hospitalized this past week with respiratory syncytial virus, also known as RSV. She described the experience as the “hardest week of my life.” Schumer, who hosted “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, wrote in an Instagram post that she was forced …
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Attorneys for former Trump adviser Steve Bannon were unable to convince a judge Tuesday that they should be given a year to go through four terabytes of data and documents collected by prosecutors in their investigation. Instead, New York County Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan gave Bannon four months to …
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The remains of a Virginia teenager who disappeared nearly 50 years ago have now been identified, police announced Monday. Authorities involved in the longstanding cold case credited advanced DNA tests and “forensic-grade” genome sequencing for the recent discovery, which linked a set of previously anonymous remains to Patricia Agnes Gildawie, …
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Washington Commanders rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. was hospitalized after being injured during an attempted armed robbery or carjacking, the team said. “We have been made aware that Brian Robinson Jr. was the victim of an attempted armed robbery or carjacking in Washington, D.C. He sustained non-life-threatening injuries and …
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