COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Charges were dropped Thursday against porn actress Stormy Daniels, just hours after she was arrested while performing at an Ohio strip club and charged with letting patrons touch her in violation of a state law. Her attorney said she was set up in a Columbus police sting operation, something police deny. …
A North Carolina woman says she is the victim of racial profiling after she was allegedly singled out at her neighborhood swimming pool and asked to prove she belonged there – and she captured the incident on video. The New York Post reports that Jasmine Edwards uploaded a video to her Facebook page of a …
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is going to jail.
Judge who sentenced swimmer recalled amid #MeToo movement By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The beginning of the end for the first California judge recalled since 1932 began almost exactly two years ago, when Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault to six months in …
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts judge who engaged in sexual acts with a social worker in his courthouse chambers will be suspended indefinitely, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday, setting in motion the judge’s possible removal from the bench. The Supreme Judicial Court said Judge Thomas Estes’ “grave, willful and …
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, 43, who was accused by a news station of blackmailing his mistress with a racy half-nude, S&M photo to keep her from exposing a 2015 affair to his wife, declared victory after prosecutors dropped a felony invasion-of-privacy charge on Monday. “Today the prosecutor has dropped the false charges against me. This …
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens declared victory as prosecutors abruptly dropped a felony invasion-of-privacy charge alleging he had taken a revealing photo of a woman with whom he has acknowledged having an affair. The St. Louis circuit attorney’s office said it still plans to pursue the case, either through a special prosecutor …
The aunt of a woman who died while in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department reportedly threw her niece’s ashes at the police chief during a meeting Tuesday morning. Wakiesha Wilson, 36, was found dead in her cell at the LAPD Metropolitan Detention Center in March 2016. A day earlier, Wilson was arrested for assaulting …
NEW YORK (AP) — A legal fight over what should happen to records the FBI seized from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney took a surprise twist Monday when the lawyer, Michael Cohen, was forced to reveal in court that he had also secretly done legal work for Fox News host Sean Hannity. The disclosure came …
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin apologized Sunday for saying that children were sexually abused because they were left home alone while teachers rallied to ask lawmakers to override his vetoes. The Republican issued his apology in a nearly four-minute video posted online, saying “it is not my intent to hurt anybody in …
By TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — She was a St. Louis hairdresser whose marriage was on the rocks. He was a handsome, educated and ambitious client who bedazzled her with talk of his time as a Navy SEAL, author and volunteer. What began as a crush on future Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, the woman …
By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Attorneys defending Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens against a felony invasion-of-privacy charge have raised new doubts about a key allegation that he took a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom he had an affair. In a court filing dated Sunday, Greitens’ attorneys say …
