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NYC to pay $28 million in Rikers suicide attempt case

The city has agreed to pay $28.7 million to the family of a Rikers Island inmate who suffered severe brain damage after attempting suicide while prison guards watched, according to court records. The incident left Nicholas Feliciano in need of lifelong care, led to criminal charges against four security guards, and his family filed suit […]

Judge tells key witness in Madigan corruption case he handed defense ‘a gift’

(The Center Square) – A key witness in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s upcoming corruption trial was caught lying on a federal form to buy a gun, a major blow for prosecutors and a surprise boon for Madigan’s defense team. Fidel Marquez, the former ComEd executive who cooperated with federal investigators in the corruption […]

Trump wants judge off hush money case

Jury selection is expected to begin soon to determine whether Trump falsified business records. cover up criminally A 2016 hush-money payment to a porn actress who claimed to have had sexual contact with President Trump. Trump has denied having an affair with her and maintains her innocence. President Trump is trying again to force the […]

Retired Philadelphia detectives ordered to stand trial in perjury case

Three long-retired Philadelphia police detectives will go on trial after being accused of lying under oath in the 2016 retrial of a man a jury acquitted of a 1991 rape-murder case. If this case goes to trial in November, it will be an unprecedented situation in which police and prosecutors face criminal charges for flawed […]

CDC on Friday issued a health alert to inform doctors about bird flu case

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert Friday informing clinicians, state health departments, and the public that a person in Texas who came into contact with dairy cows has been infected with avian influenza, also known as avian influenza. A farm worker at a commercial dairy farm in Texas […]