ATLANTA – Georgia officials waffled on whether to proceed with an execution when the lethal injection drug was discovered to have a cloudy appearance, according to court documents, and one expert said the state’s decision to postpone it was the right move. The execution of Kelly Renee Gissendaner was delayed …
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POLSON, Mont. – A Hong Kong businessman is charged with breaking into a northwestern Montana home after getting drunk at a September wedding and causing extensive damage in a case a judge says “reads like a ‘Hangover’ movie.” Court records say authorities responding to a report of a naked intruder …
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Troubling testimony was heard Monday against a former Michigan high school basketball coach who is accused of sexually assaulting multiple students. Two of the alleged victims, 15 and 16 years old, took the stand in court against 43-year-old Jerremy Thompkins, who was taken into custody on Monday. One of the …
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A carriage horse driver was charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty on Wednesday, more than a year after his frail, ill horse collapsed on the streets of Manhattan, prosecutors announced. Ian McKeever, 54, was arraigned on a charge of overdriving, torturing and injuring an animal or failure to provide proper sustenance …
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A Louisiana woman accused of involvement in the death of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana last year has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, news outlets reported. INDIANA POLICE IDENTIFY DEAD BOY FOUND STUFFED IN SUITCASE, NAME MOM AS SUSPECT Dawn Coleman, …
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A Colorado plastic surgeon whose staff administered seven times the necessary amount of anesthetic to a teenager undergoing a breast augmentation procedure, then waited five hours to get help when she stopped breathing, will spend just 15 days behind bars. Dr. Geoffrey Kim, 54, was found guilty in June of …
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A northeastern Indiana coroner has identified a woman who was fatally shot by a Fort Wayne officer after police said she tried to run him over with a car. Dachena Warren-Hill, 20, of Fort Wayne died from multiple gunshot wounds Sunday as a result of a “police action shooting,” Allen …
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Police in Ohio have released body camera footage of their SWAT response to a mass shooting in a local Walmart — and their discovery of the shooter’s lifeless body. Benjamin Charles Jones of Dayton, 20, opened fire in the store around 8:30 p.m. on Monday, shooting several rounds indiscriminately with …
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An inmate who escaped from a Philadelphia prison nearly two weeks ago has been found dead inside a warehouse in the city, authorities said Tuesday. The Philadelphia Medical Examiner identified the body found Monday in the Kensington neighborhood as 34-year-old Gino Hagenkotter, the man who escaped from the Riverside Correctional …
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A former British soldier will stand trial in the killing of two civil rights protesters half a century ago on Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland, a judge said Thursday. The former paratrooper is charged with murder in the killings of James …
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