Wednesday, 2 March 2022

2 Mardi Gras season visitors slain in separate shootings

Stray bullets in separate shootings have killed two people who were visiting New Orleans for the festivities leading up to Mardi Gras

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/3mtMU0j
via

Florida 'Monkey Whisperer' guilty of illegal wildlife trade

A Florida man who went by the nickname “the Monkey Whisperer” has pleaded guilty to illegally transporting and selling primates, including a species considered endangered

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/dSDCnhb
via

2 convicted of inciting fight at assisted living facility

Two women have been convicted of inciting two female residents at an North Carolina assisted living facility to fight each other in 2019

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/LZRAxaK
via

Researchers seek new search for Tulsa Massacre victims

Researchers say the results of last year's search for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma show the search for mass graves should continue

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/SElbgW4
via

Immigrant sentenced to life without parole in Nevada murders

A Salvadoran immigrant has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for the murders of two of the four northern Nevadans he admitted killing in a plea deal that spared him from a death penalty trial

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/V4yb2LY
via

Ex-cop pleads guilty in rough arrest of woman with dementia

A former Colorado police officer shown on body camera video roughly arresting a 73-year-old woman with dementia has pleaded guilty to assault in a plea deal objected to by the woman’s family

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/fYAC9TU
via

Foster, first Black student at University of Alabama, dies

Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enroll at the University of Alabama, has died

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/Dc2IXnB
via

Tuesday, 1 March 2022

Prosecutors recommend 9 years for ex- Kansas City detective

Prosecutors are recommending that a former Kansas City police detective be sentenced to nine years in prison for the fatal shooting of a Black man

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/SdvW4RV
via

Goldman banker's messy love life scrutinized in 1MDB trial

The messy love life of former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner has become a focus at the U.S. trial over a $4.5 billion scheme to loot the Malaysian investment fund known as 1MDB

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/wQ3gdyS
via

US expels Russian `intelligence operative' working at UN

The United States says it is expelling a Russian “intelligence operative” working for the United Nations, in addition to the 12 members of the Russian Mission to the United Nations whose expulsions were ordered Monday for engaging in espionage

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/MOvXzoy
via

Judge: No FBI entrapment for 3 in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot

A judge has ruled that three men charged in a plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before the 2020 election were not entrapped by the FBI

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/JvoH8z5
via

South Carolina Senate votes to remove Confederate holiday

A bill that would allow state employees to take the Juneteenth holiday or any other day instead of Confederate Memorial Day has unanimously passed the South Carolina Senate

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/t6OiaYA
via

Boy charged in Michigan school shooting will stay in jail

A 15-year-old boy accused of killing four students at a Michigan school will remain in jail while awaiting trial

from ABC News: US https://ift.tt/UelFNwa
via