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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former American president and several members of Congress were targets of a plot carried out by two European men to intimidate and threaten dozens of people by calling in bogus reports of police emergencies at their homes, according to court records unsealed last week. Thomasz Szabo, 26, of Romania, and Nemanja [...]
PARIS (AP) — French authorities last week handed preliminary charges to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov for allowing alleged criminal activity on his messaging app and barred him from leaving France pending further investigation. Free-speech advocates and authoritarian governments have spoken in Durov’s defense since his arrest. The case has also called attention to the challenges [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio last week upheld an appellate court ruling to deny the writ of habeas corpus filed by a Marion Correctional Institution inmate who seeks his release from prison on the basis that he was sentenced according to an unconstitutional death-penalty statute. The 7-0 court dismissed the action of Prince Charles Cotten [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disbarred celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi was convicted this week of embezzling tens of millions of dollars from his clients, including several with severe physical injuries, and families of people killed in accidents. After a 13-day trial and less than a full day of deliberations, the federal jury in Los Angeles found [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel sided with prosecutors who sought reversal of a trial-court ruling that granted judicial release to a Columbus man who had served a 12-month sentence for a gun charge related to a felony drug-trafficking offense. The Tenth District Court of Appeals held that the Franklin County Common Pleas Court’s ruling in [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to blunt the loss of an expired broadband subsidy program that helped more than 23 million families afford internet access by using money from an existing program that helps libraries and schools provide WiFi hotspots to students and patrons. Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the Federal Communications [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is precluded by statute from granting itself an extension as it did in the rehearing request of Chicago-based Carbon Solutions Group LLC. Justice Pat DeWine reasoned that Ohio Revised Code 4903.10 states that if PUCO does not grant or deny an application [...]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A body camera captured every word and bark uttered as police Sgt. Matt Gilmore and his K-9 dog, Gunner, searched for a group of suspects for nearly an hour. Normally, the Oklahoma City police sergeant would grab his laptop and spend another 30 to 45 minutes writing up a report about [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel ruled that Ohio deputy registrars did not exceed their statutory authority nor was the Department of Public Safety unjustly enriched during a yearlong period in which deputy registrars collected a $1.50 lamination fee for driver’s licenses and state IDs that they did not laminate. That’s despite deputy registrars collecting $5.1 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators last week approved updated COVID-19 vaccines, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains — and possibly other variants. With the Food and Drug Administration’s clearance, Pfizer and Moderna are set to begin shipping millions of doses. A third American manufacturer, Novavax, expects its modified vaccine version to be [...]