Recent Updates
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Chief justice re-elected to Supreme Court of Virginia
Political and Legal News 08/29/2018The current chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia has been elected to a second term in that role.The court said in a news release Tuesday that the justices re-elected Donald W. Lemons as chief justice. His second term will begin Jan. 1, 2019...
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Weinstein pleads not guilty, released on bail
Political and Legal News 07/07/2018Harvey Weinstein, who was previously indicted on charges involving two women, was released on bail on Monday while fighting sex crime accusations that now include a third woman."We fight these battles one day at a time, and today we won this round," ...
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North Carolina court allows case against dance instructors
Political and Legal News 04/11/2018North Carolina's highest court says dance instructors who glided away to a competing dance studio can still be sued by the employer who wrangled the foreign-born pair's permission to work in the United States.Happy Dance Inc. studio owner Michael Kra...
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Court leaves black judge on case against white officer
Political and Legal News 02/24/2018The Alabama Supreme Court is refusing to make a black judge quit the case of a white police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black man.The justices without comment Friday turned down a request from officer Aaron Cody Smith of th...
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Warrant dropped for professor who spoke Hawaiian in court
Political and Legal News 02/02/2018A judge dropped an arrest warrant Thursday for a University of Hawaii professor who refused to respond in court to English and spoke Hawaiian instead.Samuel Kaleikoa Kaeo was in court Wednesday facing a trial for charges connected to his participatio...
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Burundi becomes 1st to leave International Criminal Court
Political and Legal News 10/30/2017Burundi has become the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, but officials say the court's prosecutor will move ahead with an examination of the East African nation's deadly political turmoil.An ICC spokesman confirmed that...
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Court weighing whether graffiti mecca was protected by law
Political and Legal News 10/30/2017For two decades, Jerry Wolkoff let graffiti artists use his crumbling Queens warehouse complex as a canvas for their vibrant works. Artists gave the spot the name "5Pointz" — a place where all five New York City boroughs come together — but painters ...
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Court: Utility, not gov't responsible for Fukushima disaster
Political and Legal News 09/22/2017A Japanese court has ruled that a utility, not the government, should pay compensation to dozens of former residents of Fukushima for losses to their livelihood caused by meltdowns at a nuclear plant after a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.Chi...
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Ohio court sets 2022 execution date for Cleveland killer
Political and Legal News 09/22/2017The Ohio Supreme Court has set a 2022 execution date for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a man in an argument over a sewing machine.Death row inmate Percy Hutton, of Cleveland, was sentenced to die for the 1985 slaying of Derek Mitchell.H...
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Indiana high court hearing appeal in children's fire deaths
Political and Legal News 09/01/2017The Indiana Supreme Court will hear arguments in the appeal of a man sentenced to death for setting a fire that killed his fiancee's two children.A Clark County jury convicted 41-year-old Jeffrey Weisheit on murder and arson charges in 2013 for the 2...
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Prosecutors ask court to imprison Samsung heir for 12 years
Political and Legal News 08/17/2017South Korean prosecutors have recommended a 12-year jail term for Lee Jae-yong, 49-year-old billionaire heir of the Samsung business empire, urging a court to convict him of bribery and other crimes.Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, became e...
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Federal court's agenda has topics that draw Trump's ire
Political and Legal News 07/20/2017The nation’s largest federal court circuit has clashed repeatedly with President Trump over the past six months, and the agenda for its annual meeting is not shying away from topics that have stoked the president’s ire.Immigration, fake news and medd...