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MIAMI (AP) — A former career U.S. diplomat told a federal judge Thursday he will plead guilty to charges of working for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba, an unexpectedly swift resolution to a case prosecutors called one of the most brazen betrayals in the history of the U.S. foreign service. Manuel Rocha’s stunning fall from grace could …
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A Michigan toddler’s shooting highlights new gun storage law and other states’ strategies
A Michigan man is the first person to face charges under the state’s new law requiring gun owners to keep weapons in locked storage containers around minors. The case is bringing attention to similar state laws across the U.S. and prosecutors’ determination of when to bring criminal charges using them. The debate is particularly sharp in Michigan, where prosecutors in …
Read More »Here’s where all the cases against Trump stand as he campaigns for a return to the White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — From allegations of plotting to overturn a lost election to illegally stowing classified documents at his Florida estate, former President Donald Trump faces four criminal indictments in four different cities as he vies to reclaim the White House. The cases, totaling 91 felony counts, are winding through the courts at different speeds. Some might not reach trial …
Read More »Two fired utility execs and a former top Ohio regulator plead not guilty in bribery scheme
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two fired executives of FirstEnergy Corp. and a former top state utilities regulator pleaded not guilty Tuesday to state charges related to a $60 million bribery scheme that centered on securing a legislative bailout for two Ohio nuclear power plants with the help of a powerful House speaker. Former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones and Senior Vice …
Read More »Former Wallaby playmaker Kurtley Beale cleared of rape charges after 2-week trial
SYDNEY (AP) — Former Australia rugby international Kurtley Beale was found not guilty Friday of raping a woman in the bathroom of a Sydney pub after a jury deliberated for less than two hours following a two-week trial. The former Wallaby playmaker was cleared of one count of sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of sexual touching. The verdicts …
Read More »A prosecutor says man killed, disposed of daughter like ‘trash.’ His lawyer says he didn’t kill her
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man brutally beat his 5-year-old daughter to death and spent months moving her body around before disposing of it “like yesterday’s trash,” a prosecutor said Thursday. But the man’s lawyer said he didn’t harm the child and the last person who saw her alive — the man’s estranged wife — won’t say what …
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