Judges and Prosecutors

15+ hour, 43+ min ago   (1032+ words) FILE - Payton Gendron, center, listens as he is sentenced, Feb 15, 2023, in Buffalo, N.Y. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, Pool, File) For Wayne Jones, discussing the horrific supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., in which a white supremacist killed 10 people, including his…...

22+ hour, 59+ min ago   (544+ words) Sylvie Corbet And Eva Van Dam NANTERRE – DNA left on a protective painting cover helped investigators recover two stolen Renoirs and uncover what they suspected were preparations for another art heist, a French prosecutor said Monday. Four men were given…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (252+ words) LONDON – British comedian and actor Russell Brand appeared in a London court on Monday for the start of his trial on rape and sexual assault charges. The hearing at Southwark Crown Court was adjourned until Tuesday after a morning of…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (341+ words) Joshua Goodman And Alanna Durkin Richer MIAMI – A businessman wanted for years in the U.S. for allegedly paying bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts in Venezuela has been taken into custody. Alvaro Pulido was indicted…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (965+ words) BERLIN – A former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service who is charged with passing state secrets to a foreign intelligence service was ordered held in pretrial detention after a judge issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday. August Hanning, 80, who is…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (504+ words) Michael Casey And Sudhin Thanawala BOSTON – A federal appeals court heard opposing arguments Monday over whether a judge had the authority to restore billions of dollars in funding that the Trump administration cut from Harvard University. U.S. District Judge Allison…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (943+ words) An intense, public outcry over a woman's account of being gang-raped at a Cornell University fraternity house prompted New York's governor this week to angrily yank control of the investigation away from the local prosecutor who didn't initially see what…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (198+ words) Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday she appointed the office of Attorney General Letitia James as the special prosecutor to oversee the investigation, saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney’s ability to handle the case. The investigation had…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (785+ words) Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had signed an executive order appointing the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James as the special prosecutor to oversee the investigation, which had initially been closed without charges in 2024. The woman's allegations got…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (211+ words) Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, had appeared in court in a wheelchair on Wednesday, wearing a sling on his arm. He remains in custody on charges that he assaulted an officer while trying to evade arrest. Garces Perez struck an officer…...