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Seahawks’ Chad Wheeler out on bond after arrest on suspicion of felony domestic violence
Seahawks player Chad Wheeler bonded out of King County Jail on Tuesday after being arrested early Saturday on suspicion of felony domestic violence. Wheeler, a backup offensive lineman, is due in King County District Court again Wednesday for a probable cause hearing. Wheeler appeared in King County District Court on Monday, and bail was set at $400,000. Wheeler was ordered not to have contact with the alleged victim and to surrender all weapons. Court records show Wheeler was booked into the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle at 1:19 a.m. Saturday following a suspected assault of hi...
The Seattle Times
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Weinstein Co. to pay sexual abuse victims $17 million
New York (AFP) - A US bankruptcy judge has approved a $17 million payout to dozens of women who accused jailed movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse. Weinstein, 68, was sentenced to 23 years in prison last year after being convicted of rape and sexual assault. Delaware Judge Mary Walrath on Monday agreed to the Weinstein Company's liquidation plan, which sets aside the payment. She overruled the objections of several of Weinstein's victims who complained that the settlement prevented them from pursuing other legal claims. The money will be split between 37 women, meaning they are e...
AFP
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Editorial: Worst. President. Ever.
Well before 2020, when he tragically failed to lead the nation through the pandemic — and long before Jan. 6, when he launched his unprecedented, anti-constitutional assault on Congress and democracy itself — President Donald J. Trump had already cemented his place as the most inept and dangerous leader in America’s history. On Wednesday, his reign of chaos finally came to an end. From the June day in 2015 when Trump descended a golden escalator to launch his presidential campaign on a platform of xenophobic lies, he dragged America into descent with him. It was barely a year into Trump’s term...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Editorial: Could Sen. Josh Hawley’s 'reckless disregard for truth' cost him Missouri law license?
After disgracing his office by making dangerous and entirely false claims about nonexistent voter fraud, could U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley lose his law license? At least 60 attorneys have attached their names to a formal complaint against Hawley, Kansas City attorney Hugh O’Donnell said. The group wants the Missouri Supreme Court’s Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel to investigate the senator’s actions leading up to the assault on the U.S. Capitol. Lawyers from St. Louis to Kansas City had been expected to file complaints after gathering the signatures. More attorneys still could sign on to the ef...
The Kansas City Star
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In farewell video, Trump says he’ll pray for Biden but still won’t take responsibility for Capitol attack
President Donald Trump stated in a muted farewell address Tuesday that he’ll pray for Joe Biden’s administration and insisted he was “horrified” by the attack on the U.S. Capitol that he incited earlier this month, as he prepares to leave office with a whirlwind of legal troubles on the horizon, including an upcoming Senate impeachment trial. In a nearly 20-minute video released on his last full day as president, Trump said he’s proud to depart the White House having done “what we came here to do.” “This week, we inaugurate a new administration and pray for its success in keeping America safe ...
New York Daily News
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Balancing Act: To the teachers helping our kids make sense of the Capitol attack, thank you
CHICAGO – Benito Juarez Community Academy civics teacher Daniel Michmerhuizen starts every class with bell ringers. Bell ringers are writing prompts, tailored to the day. He might ask his students to write about their weekends, or about an assignment that’s due soon. He puts on quiet music while they write for 10 minutes and invites them to read their answers aloud if they feel comfortable. “It builds community,” Michmerhuizen told me Sunday. “It builds authenticity. It builds their willingness to share their thoughts in class.” Last Thursday, the day after the deadly assault on the U.S. Capit...
Chicago Tribune
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Ahead of Lisa Montgomery’s planned execution, sister begs for mercy, but others long for ‘finality’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If her death sentence is carried out, Lisa Montgomery will be taken to the federal government’s execution chamber in Indiana, where she will be strapped to a gurney as executioners search for a vein to inject the lethal drug. Her skin will turn a pale gray, and then blue and purple, before she is pronounced dead. “And there will be no way of anyone knowing whether she felt any of it or not,” said one of her lawyers, Kelley Henry. For some in Skidmore, Missouri, where Montgomery in 2004 killed a pregnant 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, and kidnapped her baby by cutting it fro...
The Kansas City Star
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Support grows for monument commemorating the ‘Central Park Jogger’ case in the park
NEW YORK — The city is moving closer to honoring the five teens convicted in the racially charged Central Park jogger case. The permanent exhibit would be installed in the northeast part of the park, near where the teens entered that fateful night in April 1989 — and would highlight their fight for justice against a system they and their supporters believe railroaded them and led to their convictions in the rape of Trisha Meili. It’s not yet clear if there will be a statue or some other artistic rendering. The five men are aware of the proposal and at least one, Yusef Salaam, has openly backed...
New York Daily News
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Supervised release for ‘SoHo Karen’ Miya Ponsetto on attempted robbery, assault charges for attacking Black teen over missing iPhone
The California woman caught on video wrongly accusing a Black teen of stealing her iPhone at a SoHo hotel was ordered freed on supervised release Saturday on charges of attempted robbery and assault. The court hearing capped a day of proceedings before police, lawyers and a Manhattan Criminal Court judge for Miya Ponsetto, 22. She was flown to the city from California and taken to the First Precinct in lower Manhattan. Police charged her with attempted robbery, grand larceny, acting in a manner injurious to a child and two counts of attempted assault for allegedly attacking the 14-year-old son...
New York Daily News
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Chief of Capitol police blasts pro-Trump assault as ‘criminal riotous behavior’
In his first public comments since Wednesday’s siege of the U.S. Capitol, the department’s Chief of Police Steven Sund condemned the riots as the worst day in his 30-year career. " (USCP) officers and our law enforcement partners responded valiantly when faced with thousands of individuals involved in violent riotous actions as they stormed the United States Capitol Building,” Sund said in a statement. “These individuals actively attacked United States Capitol Police Officers and other uniformed law enforcement officers with metal pipes, discharged chemical irritants, and took up other weapons...
New York Daily News
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