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Judge rules Bill Cosby case to be decided by outside jury
Trials
February 27, 2017

Judge rules Bill Cosby case to be decided by outside jury

MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A sequestered jury from an outside county will decide the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby, a suburban Philadelphia judge ruled Monday, rejecting a defense request to move the trial itself because of worldwide media reports that the actor’s lawyers say brand him a “serial rapist.” Montgomery …

Mom on trial for killing son: ‘he looked like his dad’
Child Abuse
February 27, 2017

Mom on trial for killing son: ‘he looked like his dad’

A mother in Australia sat in a courtroom on Monday morning, facing allegations that she murdered her 3-year-old son in 2014. She’s accused of killing him because “he looked like his dad.” The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the unnamed woman reportedly told police that she killed son because she couldn’t connect with him. She …

Urgent! Police searching for two missing Pennsylvania teens
Missing
February 27, 2017

Urgent! Police searching for two missing Pennsylvania teens

Authorities in Harrisburg and Middletown, Pennsylvania, are looking for two teen girls that disappeared on Sunday. FOX 43 reports that  Elliyah Griffin, 16, and Jovianna Gonzalez, 15, were last seen in the Middletown Genesis Court area. Elliyah is bi-racial. She stands five foot three inches tall and weighs around 100 to 125 pounds. She has brown hair, …

Police say more than 100 Jewish cemetery headstones damaged
February 27, 2017

Police say more than 100 Jewish cemetery headstones damaged

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, damage discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said. A man visiting the cemetery called police at 9:40 a.m. Sunday to report that three of his relatives’ headstones had been knocked over and damaged. “The …

VIDEO: Did a police officer stage his wife’s suicide attempt?
Violent Crime
February 26, 2017

VIDEO: Did a police officer stage his wife’s suicide attempt?

Footage reportedly shows a Griffin, Georgia, police officer come home to find his wife with a gunshot wound to the head. Matthew Boynton, 20, discovered his wife Jessica, 19, lying in a pool of blood in a closet. Barely clinging to life, Jessica spent three weeks in a coma before waking up, according to 11alive. …

Joseph Wapner, star of ‘The People’s Court,’ dead at 97
February 26, 2017

Joseph Wapner, star of ‘The People’s Court,’ dead at 97

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joseph Wapner, the retired Los Angeles judge who presided over “The People’s Court” with steady force during the heyday of the reality courtroom show, died Sunday at age 97. Son David Wapner told The Associated Press that his father died at home in his sleep. Joseph Wapner was hospitalized a week …