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NEW YORK (AP) — Transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, won’t be released, a judge decided this week. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in a written ruling that the government had suggested that the materials could be released publicly “casually [...]
A federal judge last week ordered the Chemours Chemical Company to immediately stop discharging unlawful levels of certain chemicals into the Ohio River from the company’s Washington Works plant in West Virginia. “Those pollutants endanger the environment, aquatic life and human health,” U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin wrote in the order. “Today, that unlawful, [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii last week sided with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean protections. The remote Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument is home to turtles, marine mammals and [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration is doubling to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the United States with fentanyl-laced cocaine. “Under President Trump’s leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel determined that state law precludes the Ohio attorney general’s office from appealing a trial court’s award of attorney fees to an individual at the center of an auditor’s investigation of unlawful compensation of more than $195,000. The three-judge panel of the Tenth District Court of Appeals found that R.C. 2335.39 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Violent crime in the United States fell 4.5 percent last year, according to a new FBI report, which also shows an 8 percent drop in property crime from the year before. The FBI statistics show murder and nonnegligent manslaughter in 2024 fell nearly 15 percent from a year earlier, continuing a decline [...]
Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong, but she never expected the 13-year-old girl would get arrested for it. The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance software. Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, [...]
An appellate court panel upheld the conviction of a Stark County man, who — for a month — kept in his possession a box truck that he had rented for the day from a Lewis Center truck rental and storage company. The Fifth District Court of Appeals panel was unpersuaded by 57-year-old Michael Lee’s assertion [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency earlier this week said it will defend the Biden administration’s rule for reducing lead in drinking water against a court challenge. The rule gave cities and towns a 10-year deadline to replace all of their lead pipes and was the strongest overhaul of lead-in-water standards in approximately three [...]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — DuPont and two other companies will pay New Jersey up to $2 billion to settle environmental claims stemming from PFAS, commonly referred to as “forever chemicals,” the companies announced. State Environmental Commissioner Shawn LaTourette said the deal with DuPont, Chemours and Corteva is the largest such settlement in the state’s history. [...]