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☆ Florida anger management therapist accused of murdering a homeless man after a dispute, say police
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Travis McBride, 46, is accused of fatally shooting homeless man Clinton Dorsey. The victim's body was found stashed in the trunk McBride's car, the state attorney office said. AdvertisementTravis McBride, a 46-year-old therapist specializing in anger management, was charged with alleged first-degree premeditated murder and tampering with physical evidence, NBC News reports. Authorities in DeLand, Florida, took McBride into custody on Thursday in connection with the death of 51-year-old homeless man Clinton Dorsey. "The defendant is accused of shooting a man multiple times off of Frankfort Avenue in DeLand on January 17, 2024.

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☆ Alabama execution using nitrogen gas, the first ever, again puts U.S. at front of death penalty debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

It marked the first time a new execution method was used in the U.S. since 1982, when lethal injection was introduced and later became the most common method. The state had predicted the nitrogen gas would cause unconsciousness within seconds and death within minutes. After he had a chance to make a final statement, the warden, from another room, was to activate the nitrogen gas. And experts appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council cautioned they believe the execution method could violate the prohibition on torture. Smith's attorneys had raised concerns that he could choke to death on his own vomit as the nitrogen gas flows.

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☆ Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Kim Chandler | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

It marked the first time that a new execution method has been used in the United States since lethal injection, now the most commonly used method, was introduced in 1982. After a chance to make a final statement, the warden, from another room, would activate the nitrogen gas. And experts appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council cautioned they believe the execution method could violate the prohibition on torture. Three states — Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma — have authorized nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method, but no state had attempted to use the untested method until now. Smith's attorneys had raised concerns that he could choke to death on his own vomit as the nitrogen gas flows.

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☆ Woman accused of murdering her doppelgänger wanted to stage her death to get away from her strict, religious community, prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Joshua Zitser | Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A prosecutor in the "doppelgänger murder" trial said the suspect wanted to "start a new life." She said the suspect wanted to fake her own death to escape her religious community and family. Complications arose in her Yazidi family due to her separation from her husband, reports said. Related storiesCiting prosecutors, Blick reported that Sharaban wanted to distance herself from her family and escape the strict norms of the Yazidi religious community in Germany. AdvertisementIn addition to the first-degree murder charge, Sharaban K is accused of an attempt to order a hit on that relative.

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AdvertisementA few months later, she canceled the wedding due to the domestic violence she experienced from her fiancé. I found out by seeing a post on social media. Her husband posts pictures on social media washing brand-new four-wheelers they purchased for him and their two kids and an expensive truck. Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Financial Security tells us that 99% of domestic violence cases have a financial element. Certainly, remember what may happen before you give your niece money in the future, but don't stop showing up for her in other ways.

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☆ An American Airlines flight attendant was charged over claims he photographed minors in airplane bathrooms
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Pete Syme | Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementA 36-year-old American Airlines flight attendant was arrested Thursday on two charges related to claims he'd filmed a minor using an airplane bathroom, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said. A press release from the Department of Justice released Thursday says the claims involve an American Airlines flight to Boston from Charlotte, North Carolina, in September. A family says their daughter discovered a cellphone taped inside a toilet on an American Airlines flight in September. American Airlines said in a statement that Thompson had not worked for the airline since the September incident. Paul Llewellyn, an attorney representing the girl's family in their civil lawsuit against American Airlines, said the family is happy that police arrested Thompson.

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A Vallejo police detective interrogated Quinn for hours, at times suggesting he may have been involved in Huskins’ disappearance. Police said they became suspicious because Quinn waited hours to report the kidnapping. But Quinn and Huskins were adamant that it wasn’t a hoax and insisted they were the victims. Muller put Huskins in his trunk, drove her to his home in South Lake Tahoe and held her there for two days. During and after the kidnapping, Muller used an anonymous email account to send messages to a San Francisco reporter claiming that Huskins was abducted by a team of elite criminals practicing their tactics.

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“I lost 14 years of my life for a crime that I didn’t commit,” Steven Ruffin told a Brooklyn judge after sighing with emotion. Ruffin told the detectives they could retrieve the gun from his sister's boyfriend, and they did, prosecutors' report said. Prosecutors didn't release the boyfriend's name Thursday, and the names of lawyers who have represented him weren't immediately available. He told prosecutors during their recent reinvestigation that he had nothing to do with the shooting and didn't give detectives the gun. Asked Thursday about the boyfriend, Ruffin's lawyers noted that the prospect of any prosecution now is uncertain.

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☆ Tech CEO Pava LaPere's rape and murder has spurred lawmakers to curb early-release credits for violent sex offenders
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Glynis Kazanjian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Pava LaPere, 26, the founder and CEO of EcoMap Technologies, was raped and murdered in 2023. Her death has spurred Maryland legislators to introduce a law to stop violent offenders from accruing early release credits. Her father, Frank LaPere, told Business Insider that it was time to change the justice system. The Pava Marie LaPere Act would require the Maryland Parole Commission to approve an offender's early release. "This bill is a little different because of Frank [Pava LaPere's father], to be honest," Bates said.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can wait a week to testify at a New York defamation trial where he could face millions of dollars in damages after a jury concluded that he sexually abused a columnist in the 1990s, a federal judge said Sunday. The judge also noted that he has learned that Trump, even while seeking to postpone the trial, had scheduled an evening campaign appearance on Wednesday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He said Trump's lawyers notified the judge on Friday that Trump planned to attend the trial. This month's trial, long delayed by appeals, stems from defamatory comments the judge said Trump made about Carroll in 2019 and last May, a day after the jury announced its verdict. Habba said Trump also can testify about the circumstances of his comments and how they related to comments in Carroll’s "continuous parade of interviews and publicity."

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☆ Ghislaine Maxwell had a secret Tumblr account, newly unsealed court records reveal
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ghislaine Maxwell had a secret Tumblr account, an attorney said in a newly unsealed court hearing. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementConvicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell had a secret Tumblr account. The Terramar Project, an ocean conservation nonprofit run by Maxwell, had a Tumblr account with the username @tmpizzle. The apparent Tumblr account hasn't been mentioned in other court documents reviewed by Business Insider.

Persons: Ghislaine Maxwell, Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, —, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Giuffre, Epstein, Meredith Schultz, Schultz, Loretta Preska's, Martin G, Weinberg, She's, hasn't Organizations: Service, Business, US Locations: Giuffre, Florida, Manhattan

☆ An Iowa school principal talked down the school shooter and tried to distract him so students could escape, his daughter says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-06 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger was among those injured in the school shooting in Iowa. Marburger's daughter said he tried to distract the gunman to allow other students to escape. As her father recovers, Claire Marburger called for compassion toward the deceased gunman's family. AdvertisementAfter a school shooting in Iowa left two people dead and seven injured, the high school principal's daughter is commending her father's brave actions to distract the gunman. Among the injured was Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger, who the department said suffered multiple gunshot wounds and went to the hospital in critical condition.

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She previously told a journalist that she was on one of Epstein's private islands with Bill Clinton. AdvertisementA newly unsealed deposition from Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre offered new details for a meeting she says she had on Epstein's private island with Bill Clinton. "Whether it's true or not, that is what I do recall telling Sharon Churcher," Giuffre said of Maxwell's story. Giuffre told Churcher, however, that Maxwell said she flew Clinton to the island without Giuffre flying with them. "I'd have been about 17 at the time," Giuffre told Churcher.

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☆ An Airbnb host's son secretly filmed a guest in the shower, then tried to blackmail her into sending him a sex video: prosecutors
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A man living in his mother's Airbnb home secretly filmed a guest naked and then tried to blackmail her, prosecutors allege. Prosecutors say Strutz admitted to hiding a cell phone camera in a basket on the bathroom counter. AdvertisementThe son of an Airbnb host was sentenced to prison in connection to allegations that he secretly filmed a guest in the shower and tried to blackmail her into sending him an explicit video. The graphic messages continued for several months until Strutz sent her a nude image of herself from when she showered in the Airbnb bathroom, prosecutors allege. Strutz admitted he filmed the guest using a cell phone he had hidden in a basket on the bathroom counter, prosecutors allege in the complaint.

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This case requires us to determine whether the same rule applies to police encounters that take place on a bus. The mere fact that Bostick did not feel free to leave the bus does not mean that the police seized him. This court is not empowered to forbid law enforcement practices simply because it considers them distasteful. We therefore believe the district court erred in relying on whether the conduct ‘seriously affect plaintiff's psychological well-being’ ... As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more.

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☆ An Indian government official directed a plot to assassinate a Sikh US citizen on American soil, feds say — and more attempts were planned
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementA member of the Indian government directed a foiled plot to assassinate a US citizen on American soil, according to a newly unsealed federal indictment. Students give final touches to paintings of US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at an art school in Mumbai on September 5, 2023, ahead of the two-day G20 summit in New Delhi. President Joe Biden personally raised the issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in September, according to the Financial Times. In September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India's government of being involved in the attack. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India welcomes US President Joe Biden for the 2023 G20 Leaders' Summit in New Delhi.

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☆ U.S. v. Gupta Indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The following day, on or about June 20, 2023, CC-1 sent GUPTA a news article about the Victim. Shortly thereafter, GUPTA spoke to the CS by audio call, and GUPTA directed the CS to "find the opportunity" to kill the Victim and to "do it quickly." After the Nijjar murder in Canada, GUPTA demanded rapid updates from the UC on the progress of the plot to murder the Victim, which GUPTA then reported to CC-1. At one point, on or about June 22, 2023, CC-1 messaged GUPTA that the Victim "is somewhere else," that "[h]e is not at home," and that CC-1 "got the message from boss." When the call went unanswered, GUPTA messaged the UC that the 11

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Three young men of Palestinian descent who were in Burlington for a Thanksgiving holiday gathering were shot and injured — one seriously — near the University of Vermont, police said Sunday. The shootings occurred at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday near the UVM campus, according to Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad. Two of the men are in stable condition and the other suffered “much more serious injuries,” Murad said in a news release Sunday. “All three victims were struck, two in their torsos and one in the lower extremities.”Murad said all three men are of Palestinian descent. “My deepest condolences go out to the victims and their families,” Murad said in the news release.

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☆ 2 Russians convicted of murdering and eating victims have been released after fighting in Ukraine: reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Two men convicted of murder were released after fighting in Ukraine, per Russian media. AdvertisementRussia released two prisoners convicted of murder, who then ate parts of their victims, after they fought in Ukraine, according to multiple Russian reports. He's now recovering from moderate injuries at a military hospital in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, his neighbor Dmitry told Russian news outlet Siberia Realities . "He's basically free, pardoned, and half his [prison] sentence has been wiped out," Dmitry told the outlet, according to a translation by Ukrainska Pravda . AdvertisementOgolobya stabbed two other victims to death, penetrating their bodies 666 times and counting the blows out loud, witnesses said.

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☆ A pilot who decapitated a wingsuit flyer with his plane's wing has been found guilty of manslaughter
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An experienced skydiver was decapitated by the wing of a plane seconds after he jumped. The French pilot has been found guilty of manslaughter and operating an aircraft without a valid license. The president of a French court said there had been a lack of communication between the victim and the pilot. AdvertisementA French pilot who decapitated a wingsuit flyer with the wing of his plane has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The pilot was found guilty of manslaughter and operating an aircraft without a valid aeronautical license, the Montauban criminal court ruled on Tuesday, French outlet Le Parisien reported.

Persons: skydiver, —, Nicholas Galy, Emmanuelle Franck, Alain C, Le Parisien, Galy Organizations: Service, Le, School Association, Civil Aviation, Investigation Locations: Montauban, London

ROME, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Italy is considering candidates to take the helm of state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), three sources close to the matter told Reuters, as part of a wider shake-up of state-controlled companies. State-backed investor CDP, founded 173 years ago, plays a key role in keeping strategic assets in national hands. Asked to comment on a change of CEO at CDP, Meloni's office said any rumours of a replacement for Scannapieco were unfounded. Rome is expected to decide on the top management of CDP in March at the latest, immediately after the approval of this year's CDP financial accounts, the sources said. The state lender invests savings made by Italians through the national post office network Poste Italiane.

Persons: Dario Scannapieco, Fincantieri, Giorgia, Scannapieco, Antonino Turicchi, Stefano Donnarumma, Mario Draghi, Elvira Pollina, Susan Fenton Organizations: Eni, ITA Airways, European Investment Bank, Telecom Italia's, Thomson Locations: Italy, State, Rome, EU, Milan

☆ T-Mobile faces a lawsuit after an employee sent himself nude photos he found on a customer's phone
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

T-Mobile is facing another lawsuit over allegations that it has failed to protect customer data. A member of staff is accused of sending nudes found on a customers phone to his Snapchat account. The incident occurred last October at a T-Mobile store in the Columbia Center Mall in southern Washington. "Today we sued T-Mobile for its pattern and practice of incentivizing trade-ins knowing some of their pervs will steal customers' nudes and sex vids. Breaking news: Today we sued T-Mobile for its pattern and practice of incentivizing trade-ins knowing some of their pervs will steal customers' nudes and sex vids.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Eight high school students in Las Vegas between the ages of 13 and 17 have been arrested on suspicion of murder in the fatal beating of a classmate, authorities announced Tuesday at a news conference. Johansson said the local FBI office assisted with the arrests Tuesday morning of the eight students. The coroner's office in Las Vegas ruled the beating a homicide. Political Cartoons View All 1247 ImagesThe fight, Johansson said, had been prearranged after the headphones and vape pen were stolen from the victim's friend. After his death, the victim's father, Jonathan Lewis Sr., said his son was attacked while standing up “for one of his smaller friends,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

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(AP) — New Orleans Saints receiver Michael Thomas is facing simple battery and criminal mischief charges following a confrontation with a construction worker, police said Saturday. Thomas, 30, was arrested without incident Friday night, was cooperative with investigators and was released later that night, Kenner police Lt. Mark McCormick said. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Saturday because the team has not publicly discussed Thomas' status for the game. Police say the incident occured in front of a home under construction near Thomas' home. In 2019, Thomas set an NFL record for catches in a season with 149.

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☆ Telecom Italia CEO defends grid deal as top investor threatens legal challenge
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Telecom Italia (TIM) logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, May 3, 2022. CEO Pietro Labriola's comments follow criticism from top shareholder Vivendi (VIV.PA), which has threatened a legal challenge to the plan to sell the grid, saying it considered the decision to proceed without a shareholder vote as "unlawful". "It is not possible under the Italian law to transfer such competence to the shareholders," the CEO added. According to Vivendi, the sale required an extraordinary shareholder vote because it would change TIM's corporate purpose and therefore required a change to the company bylaws. Labriola said the deal is "no more than the strict execution of the delayering (business) plan" unanimously approved in 2022.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Pietro Labriola's, Labriola, Agostino Nuzzolo, Elvira Pollina, Giulia Segreti, Jan Harvey Organizations: Telecom Italia, REUTERS, Rights, Telecom, KKR, Vivendi, TIM, Thomson Locations: Milan

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