By TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli had his bail revoked and was headed to jail Wednesday while awaiting sentencing for a securities fraud conviction. A judge heard arguments about whether the provocative online antics of Shkreli, dubbed the Pharma Bro, were bad enough to put him behind …
By GRETCHEN EHLKE, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin girl who told investigators she helped stab a classmate was convinced the crime would protect her and her family from a fictional horror character called Slender Man, her attorney told jurors Tuesday. The defense is trying to convince jurors that Anissa Weier was suffering from …
By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) — A man who lived in the “dark, dark world” of methamphetamine and morphine abducted a Tennessee nursing student from her rural home in 2011, then drugged, raped and shot her before discarding her body and bragging about it, a prosecutor said Monday. Paul Hagerman made the statements …
By EMERY P. DALESIO, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A jilted husband’s lawsuit against a doctor accused of stealing his wife’s love can proceed after a North Carolina appeals court ruled Tuesday that the husband can continue suing the spouse’s lover, seeking damages. The state Court of Appeals decision resurrects a lawsuit that a …
By MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A judge threw out involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault charges Friday against members of a Penn State fraternity in the alcohol-related hazing death of a pledge, ordering 12 of the young men to stand trial on less serious counts. The ruling, issued without explanation by District Justice …
“I believed that if I didn’t go through with it, Slender Man would come and attack and kill myself, my friends and my family.”
By MARINA VILLENEUVE, Associated Press A lawsuit claims that Poland Spring Water is deceiving consumers with evergreen labels that say their bottle contains “100 percent natural spring water” that hails from Maine. The class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Connecticut claims that parent company Nestle Waters North America is bottling common groundwater that doesn’t …
Johnson pleaded guilty to acting as an accessory.
Swift attorney: “Return a verdict for a single dollar, a single symbolic dollar, the value of which is immeasurable to all women in this situation.”
“I lurched away from him”
“She was really shaken. She was humiliated”
Former DJ seeking at least $3 million, Taylor Swift countersuing for a symbolic $1
