11% of felony defendants charged with new crime on pre-trial release, data shows Data show that 10,353 felony defendants have been released pre-trial since new provisions of the SAFE-T Act took effect in September of 2023. Of those, 89% were not charged with new crimes. However, ... 04/19/2024 - 11:14 am | View Link
Houston crime: Man sentenced to life for double murder of ex-wife and her new partner A custody dispute turned deadly when a woman's husband gunned down her and her boyfriend in southwest Houston. 04/18/2024 - 5:36 am | View Link
County judge to decide if Falls man is a persistent felony offender A Niagara County Court judge is expected to rule soon on a request from prosecutors to have a Falls man declared a "persistent felon." If Judge Caroline Wojtaszek finds Curtis Griggs meets the ... 04/17/2024 - 4:59 pm | View Link
Bainbridge man pleads guilty to family offense A Bainbridge man pleaded guilty in Delaware County Court to one count of aggravated family offense, a class E felony. 04/17/2024 - 4:41 am | View Link
New Orleans judge gives convicted rapist a probation sentence The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office said they believe a judge broke the law when she sentenced a convicted rapist to probation. 04/17/2024 - 12:35 am | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.