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☆ She’s Fighting Big Oil in Texas. But Republicans Want to Make Her D.A.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( J. David Goodman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They immediately ran into a problem finding a candidate to oppose the incumbent. There were only 16 practicing lawyers in the three counties that make up the deep-red district, including the present Democratic office-holder, Randy Reynolds, who some said was not an effective prosecutor. Desperate for a challenger, they turned to Sarah Stogner, an oil-and-gas lawyer who, on paper, would seem to be an unlikely candidate to boost the Republican Party in what ought to have been one of its strongholds. She has never tried a criminal case. And she’s made her mark in Texas oil law mainly for suing Chevron over environmental damage from abandoned oil wells.

Persons: Randy Reynolds, Sarah Stogner, she’s Organizations: Republican Party, Chevron, Texas Railroad Commission Locations: Texas, El Paso

A still image from a video shows former Milwaukee hotel workers holding down D'vontaye Mitchell at the downtown Hyatt Regency on June 30. Turner told authorities he “observed DM begging and harassing a guest of the hotel,” according to the criminal complaint. In the complaint, Turner said he told Mitchell not to enter the hotel but saw him do so and beg for money. Mitchell gets up and attempts to reenter the hotel but is pushed back outside, where Turner, Johnson-Carson and Williamson surround him. Hotel security footage appeared to show him striking Mitchell once with a closed fist, according to the document.

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☆ His Murder Conviction Was Overturned. Why Is He Still in Prison?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Jesse Mckinley | Danny Hakim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last summer, an Erie County judge threw out his conviction in a 1993 murder that had set off a raft of accusations involving bad cops, famous killers and prosecutorial misconduct. Nearly a year later, the crime is still unsolved and Mr. Lorenz remains behind bars. In 1994, Mr. Lorenz and a co-defendant were found guilty of the savage slaying of a young mother, Deborah Meindl, in the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda. But the Erie County district attorney’s office continues to appeal the overturned convictions, raising the prospect of a second trial despite a paucity of physical evidence or potential prosecution witnesses. “It just seems like it’s never going to end,” Mr. Lorenz, 54, said in a recent interview from jail in Erie County.

Persons: Brian Scott Lorenz, Lorenz, Deborah Meindl, it’s, Mr, “, ” Locations: Erie, Buffalo, Tonawanda, Erie County

☆ Atop ABC, a Personal Connection to Kamala Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Michael M. Grynbaum | Brooks Barnes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The executive, Dana Walden, first met Kamala Harris in 1994. Their husbands, Matt Walden and Doug Emhoff, have known each other since the 1980s. The Waldens — “extraordinary friends,” per the vice president — have donated money to Ms. Harris’s political campaigns since at least 2003, when she ran for district attorney in San Francisco. “In many ways, Dana and Matt are responsible for my marriage,” Ms. Harris joked at a fund-raiser in April 2022 at the Waldens’ home in Brentwood, a wealthy Los Angeles enclave where Ms. Harris and Mr. Emhoff also own a residence. The Waldens, Vice President Harris explained, set up a couple who in turn had set her up with Mr. Emhoff on a blind date.

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☆ DNA leads police to arrest of mother in 1987 California baby death
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Melissa Alonso | Steve Almasy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Cold case investigators have arrested a 55-year-old woman in North Carolina in connection with the death of a newborn girl found in a California dumpster 37 years ago, according to the Riverside Police Department. Through DNA testing, detectives identified the baby’s mother as Melissa Jean Allen Avila, police said in a Thursday news release. In 2020, the department’s new homicide cold case unit reopened the case. “Othram assisted with investigators’ reference testing efforts using (a method of testing that) allows investigators to infer kinship in closely and distantly related individuals,” the company said. “Thanks to the persistent efforts of our investigators and partners, this victim now has an identity, bringing resolution to the case,” Riverside Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said.

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☆ A Massachusetts man wanted for rapes 35 years ago arrested in LA
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Alaa Elassar | Amanda Musa | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A man wanted in the 1989 rapes of two Massachusetts women is in custody following an hourlong police chase in Los Angeles Thursday. Stephen Paul Gale, 71, was arrested after leading police on the chase, US Marshals Service spokesperson Brady McCarron told CNN. Massachusetts officials charged Gale in May with four counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping and one count of armed robbery, according to the news release. “None of this has ever left our lives,” one of the victims told CNN affiliate WFXT. A 1995 photo of Stephen Paul Gale is seen from a US Marshals wanted poster.

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☆ Columbia University exec's New York apartment building vandalized with red paint and crickets
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The Brooklyn, New York, apartment building of Columbia University’s chief operating officer was vandalized with red paint and crickets, police said. The Brooklyn, New York, apartment building of Columbia University’s chief operating officer was vandalized Thursday with red paint and crickets, police said. A preliminary investigation determined that two people threw red paint inside the building’s vestibule and unleashed a box containing crickets and mealworms, police said in a statement. Several other people involved caused “damage to the front of the building by throwing paint on the building and sidewalk,” according to police. Photos released by police showed red paint splattered across the sidewalk and on the wall of the building.

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☆ Ex-trucker awaiting trial in North Carolina murder is charged with suspected serial killings in California
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A former long-haul trucker awaiting trial in the 1992 murder of a North Carolina woman was charged in the suspected serial killings of three more women in California more than four decades ago, authorities said Thursday. The women, all sex workers, were found dead in Port Hueneme, Oxnard and an unincorporated part of Ventura County, respectively, in May, September and December of that year, officials said. Cobb, 29, was found dead on an interstate northwest of Winston-Salem on July 7, 1992, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Court records for Alexander’s case in North Carolina were unavailable Friday night and it isn’t clear if he has entered a plea or who is defending him. Authorities are now working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation through its Highway Serial Killings Initiative to help identify other potential victims linked to Alexander, Nasarenko said.

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A pair of Secret Service counter snipers, dubbed Hercules 1 and Hercules 2, surveilled the crowd from directly above and behind the stage. He radioed the local command post controlled by Butler County law enforcement and notified them of the kid with the rangefinder. “I can’t believe that the Secret Service hasn’t talked to any of our people,” he said prior to Friday’s reach out. In a different location, the Secret Service and state police set up another command post. New video reveals frustrationNicols, Woods, Young and other Beaver County officers weren’t the only ones to express concerns about the Secret Service planning.

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☆ Opinion | Nancy Pelosi: ‘It Didn’t Sound Like Joe Biden to Me’
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Ezra Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +55 min

And they know you’re going to act so they won’t mess with you. Put it in somebody else’s mouth because it was AI mean, it didn’t sound like Joe Biden to me. I think you’re I think you’re underselling this a little bit. And if they don’t, I’m going to keep my promise and send them 100 powdered wigs because they’re just living in a different era. All these other politicians, these career politicians didn’t know how to make a good deal.

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☆ Travis Scott arrested in Paris after hotel fight with his bodyguard, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —American rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Paris early Friday morning after getting into a fight with his bodyguard, authorities in the French capital said. Scott was subsequently arrested for “violence against another person,” according to a police spokesman. Scott, who was in Paris for the Olympic Games, on Thursday attended the men’s basketball semi-final that saw the United States beat Serbia. He was arrested for “violence against a security guard,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said later on Friday. Scott was arrested and booked into Miami-Dade County Jail in June on charges of trespass and disorderly intoxication.

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☆ For Years, He Demanded to See the Video. Finally, It Set Him Free.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Hurubie Meko | Olivia Bensimon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As his murder trial began in December 2009, Arvel Marshall made a desperate plea to his lawyer: Ask for surveillance videos of the Brooklyn street where he was accused of fatally shooting a 22-year-old man. Mr. Marshall’s lawyer made a halfhearted request for the footage. The prosecutor said initially that it did not exist, then that it was not accessible, and the judge moved the trial along. Mr. Marshall was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. The video in question, captured from a nearby building, showed two men, neither of them Mr. Marshall, walking down a Crown Heights street toward where Moustapha Oumaria was sitting outside his home with three friends.

Persons: Arvel Marshall, Marshall, Oumaria Locations: Brooklyn

☆ Trump said he ‘went down’ in helicopter ‘emergency landing’ with former San Francisco mayor, who says it never happened
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Rashard Rose | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump recounted a story to reporters on Thursday about being involved in a helicopter emergency landing with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. “I know Willie Brown very well. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing,” Trump told reporters gathered at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for his first news conference since the Democratic ticket was announced. A spokesperson for Jerry Brown told the Times that “there was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris.”California Gov. “First of all, it was in New Jersey, not California, and it was Willie Brown, not former Governor Jerry Brown,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

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☆ Arizona grand jurors wanted to indict Trump, prosecutors urged them not to
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-07 | by ( Zachary Cohen | Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Members of the grand jury in Arizona that indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump earlier this year for their alleged roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election had also expressed interest in charging the former president, according to a new court filing. The interest was strong enough that it prompted the state’s lead prosecutor to request that the grand jury not indict the former president and give a PowerPoint presentation to explain his reasoning. Prosecutors cited two primary reasons for why the grand jury should not charge Trump: a lack of evidence and a US Justice Department policy they believe would hamper charges against a former president. The policy cited by prosecutors deals with DOJ guidelines limiting how the federal government can prosecute individuals already charged with similar crimes at the state level. That’s why you do not see that,” the state prosecutor told the grand jury.

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☆ Prosecutors used an AI tool to send a man to prison for life. Now the person who created it is under investigation.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

But prosecutors had no direct evidence tying Black to the location of the murder, an Ohio appellate court later said. In many cases, prosecutors themselves don't even have access to the source code and haven't reviewed the underlying technology. Back in Akron, the judge in Rankin's case ordered the Cybercheck evidence excluded after prosecutors failed to turn over the source code. The Summit County Prosecutor's Office declined to comment when reached by BI. It's unclear how many others may be behind bars because of Cybercheck evidence that was never rigorously scrutinized.

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☆ JD Vance called Tim Walz a 'San Francisco-style liberal.' Walz visited the city for the first time last month, while Vance lived there for years.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio hit his new opponent as a "San Francisco-style liberal." "She has governed as a San Francisco liberal, and she's chosen a running mate who will be a San Francisco-style liberal." "Last week was my first time in San Francisco," Walz said on an episode of "The Ezra Klein Show" released on August 2. A few Saturdays ago, my wife and I spent the morning volunteering at a community garden in our San Francisco neighborhood. "I don't even know if we're actually going to get Tim Walz out of this campaign."

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After Donald Trump told journalists on Wednesday that his presidential opponent Kamala Harris “turned Black” for political gain, Trump’s comments have impacted the way many multirace voters are thinking about the two candidates. Some identify with Harris’ politics more than others but, overall, they told NBC News that Trump’s comments will not go unnoticed. She said she doesn’t support Harris’ past criminal justice policies as a district attorney and she doesn’t think President Joe Biden is doing enough to support Gaza. She uses everybody, including her racial identity!”Trump has relied on his familiar tactic of attacking Harris’ race and gender since Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Harris. But some have said Trump’s race- and gender-centered attacks may alienate women and voters of color.

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Two special prosecutors said Monday they will file a criminal obstruction of justice charge against a former Kansas police chief who directed warrant searches of a publisher and his newsroom over its retrieval of public information. As of Monday, prosecutors hadn't filed any criminal charges against former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody. It was not immediately clear if they would be seeking a felony or misdemeanor charge against Cody. The special prosecutors are working with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which stepped in at the request of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. “The findings will be incorporated into charges which will be sought in Marion County District Court,” the report said.

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Vice President Kamala Harris had a secret weapon on hand as she worked the phones in the hours after President Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed her. Tony West, her brother-in-law and the chief legal officer at Uber, was with Ms. Harris in the vice president’s residence when she received the news, and he spent the afternoon helping her reach out to would-be supporters. Since that Sunday, Mr. West has emerged as a major force behind Ms. Harris’s campaign and its record-setting fund-raising, but also as a concern for some progressives who want her to take a hard line against big business. Ms. Harris’s campaign brought on several senior political operatives on Friday, some of whom worked on former President Barack Obama’s campaigns, to add to the team that had been assembled to re-elect Mr. Biden. But none has the advantage of family ties like her brother-in-law, who has held top positions in the Justice Department and corporate America while advising Ms. Harris’s campaigns since she ran for San Francisco district attorney in 2003.

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☆ Kamala Harris Can Be the Pro-Innovation President Silicon Valley Needs - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Reid Hoffman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There is a major opportunity for Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats in the House and Senate to set our country on a different course. At a time when massive technological shifts are happening around the world, what the former Google C.E.O. In this moment, we need a leader who recognizes that innovation is the key to economic prosperity, national security and breakthrough progress on climate change and other pressing issues. She was California’s attorney general during the smartphone boom of the 2010s, when tax revenues from tech company I.P.O.s and stock market gains turned California’s budget deficits into surpluses and reinforced the state’s standing as the world’s innovation leader. Ms. Harris’s familiarity with the needs of the tech industry and her ability to innovate and protect the public interest mark her as a 21st-century leader.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Eric Schmidt, America’s, Harris, Ms Organizations: Google Locations: Francisco’s

☆ D'Vontaye Mitchell's death is ruled a homicide, from 'restraint asphyxia' and drugs, medical examiner says
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Antonio Planas | Ava Kelley | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The "immediate cause of death" for D'Vontaye Mitchell, 43, was “restraint asphyxia and toxic effects of cocaine and methamphetamine,” according to a final report from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner. Courtesy Brenda GilesHis final manner of death was ruled by the medical examiner to be homicide. On June 30, four security guards pinned Mitchell face down on the ground outside the downtown Hyatt Regency hotel. The medical examiner noted Mitchell was “restrained in prone position” by multiple individuals after using drugs. Police said a person had entered the business, “caused a disturbance” and “fought with security guards as they were escorting” him out.

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SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — Justin Timberlake appeared virtually at a Friday hearing for his driving while intoxicated case, where the judge announced the pop star's driver's license would be suspended and admonished his lawyer over "irresponsible" comments. The singer, 43, claimed he had just “one martini” before he was pulled over. He pleaded not guilty and his attorney, Edward Burke Jr., said in a statement at the time: “I look forward to vigorously defending Mr. Timberlake on these allegations. But once police spoke to Timberlake, they said, it was clear he was not in shape to drive, according to the complaint, written by Sag Harbor Village Police Officer Michael Arkinson. Timberlake struggled to walk heel-to-toe and stand on one foot without swaying or using arms to balance, the report said.

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☆ Woman charged with hate crime after vandalizing home of Jewish director of Brooklyn Museum
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A woman has been arrested and charged with a hate crime in connection with splattering red paint on the home of the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum earlier this summer. Taylor Pelton, 28, was charged Wednesday with criminal mischief as a hate crime in connection with the June attack, the New York City Police Department said. In the attack, red paint was splattered on the front facade and door of Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak’s Brooklyn home. The Brooklyn Museum told NBC News Friday: "We are aware the District Attorney has filed criminal charges against an individual accused of participating in the June 12 vandalism at the homes of several Brooklyn Museum leaders. "Our vision remains rooted in the belief that art fosters dialogue and mutual understanding among people with diverse experiences and perspectives."

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☆ Young climate activists favor Harris over Biden, despite his environmental wins
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Elysee Barakett | Elysee Barakett Is A Health Intern At Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

The Summary Many young climate advocates see Kamala Harris as stronger on environmental issues than Joe Biden. President Joe Biden may have passed the United States’ most significant climate legislation ever, but many young environmental activists say they see Kamala Harris as stronger on the issue. But several young climate activists ages 16 to 29 said for them, the expansion of the fossil fuel industry during Biden’s presidency has clouded those successes. Harris’ young supporters have highlighted the settlements she secured as California attorney general with Chevron, BP and ConocoPhillips over their handling of hazardous materials. Sunrise Movement protesters gather near Vice President Harris' Brentwood home on April 14, calling on her to urge President Biden to declare a climate emergency.

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☆ Drunk driver was going 78 mph when he crashed into nail salon and killed 4, prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Nbc New York | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A drunk driver who killed four people and injured nine more when he crashed his SUV into a Long Island nail salon was driving 78 mph at the time of the crash, prosecutors said Thursday as the driver pleaded not guilty to a multitude of charges that include murder and vehicular manslaughter. Steven Schwally, 64, entered the pleas to a 38-count indictment for the deadly June 28 crash at the Hawaii Nail & Spa store in Deer Park. Prosecutors said in court papers that Schwally purchased two 375-milliliter bottles of Montebello Long Island Iced Tea at 11 a.m. on the day of the crash. Investigators determined that he was driving 78 mph (125 kph) one second before the crash, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Schwally had no regular address and had been living in hotels for more than a year.

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