NEW YORK (AP) — A former top aide to New York City's mayor is expected in court Thursday to face corruption charges, source tells AP.
"If the genders were reversed, there are few who would believe that leniency is appropriate," prosecutors reportedly told the court
WARNING: This story contains details of abuse of children at residential schoolsThe trial of an Ottawa nun accused of sex crimes at northern Ontario residential and day schools in the 1960s and 1970s will not proceed after a stay of proceedings was granted due to evidence issues.Francoise Seguin, 98, is the third nun and eighth worker overall to face criminal charges in relation to abuse at St. Anne's Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ont.Seguin, of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa, appe
William Vosler and his wife Eileen Vosler were found dead inside a freezer along with notes stating when they'd died
Exclusive: Anthony Williams “spent his life fighting crime, and now to be accused of a crime so heinous as trafficking his own wife is unfathomable,” attorney Jasmine Rand told The Independent.
Mackenzie Shirilla, 19, of Ohio, was convicted in 2023 of killing her boyfriend and a friend after crashing into a car
"Don't ask, don't tell. The guy running around talking about how he's in for 'a body' is a liar. He's definitely a deflecting sex offender."
David Lever, 55, is facing three murder charges after the shooting in Greenville, North Carolina on Friday, Jan. 10
There are only two people who really know what happened on the fateful day in June 2021 when a man allegedly killed his neighbour: the one whose remains were discovered over a month later, and the one now on trial in a Winnipeg court for first-degree murder, prosecutors told the jury hearing the case Monday.But the evidence left behind was enough to help investigators piece together the story of how they believe things played out that day, Crown attorney Bryton Moen said during his opening state
Wayne Sefton Davis told one of his victims that he ‘needed to teach her how to pleasure her husband’ and wanted to check that another was ‘a virgin’.
Semina Halliwell, who was 12, died on June 12 2021, three days after she took her mother’s prescription medicine.
Police in India's southern state of Kerala have arrested 44 men accused of raping an 18-year-old girl over a period of five years, a police official said on Tuesday, in a case that has shocked the coastal tourist resort. Police have identified 58 of those men, some of whom are minors and arrested 44 over the last two days, officials said. The case came to light after the girl narrated the gang rape to a volunteer during a gender awareness programme.
WARNING: This story contains details of sexual assault and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it.The man who sexually assaulted and killed 23-year-old Hamilton nursing assistant Diane Werendowicz in 1981, and was found guilty in 2016 of first-degree murder in his fourth trial, has a chance for an early release from prison.Robert Badgerow, 66, received the mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, which means he norm
A Chilean man accused of defrauding Islanders in a so-called "grandparent scam" is facing nearly a dozen more charges in New Brunswick.Luis Luciano David Cortez has been in jail since August on five charges of fraud. Now, he is facing another 10 fraud-related charges that have been transferred from Campbellton and one additional charge from Miramichi, N.B.Provincial court Judge Jeff Lantz confirmed Monday that those charges have been transferred to P.E.I.Cortez's lawyer, Marc-Antoine Rock, appea
Ontario's police watchdog says it is investigating after a 44-year-old woman fell to her death from her apartment balcony shortly after interacting with Toronto police early Monday.The incident happened just before 2 a.m., the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a news release.Toronto police officers went to an apartment on High Park Avenue in the city's west end looking for a wanted person, the SIU said. The building is the same highrise where another woman fell from a balcony during an i
A man accused of abducting an Edmonton junior high student over the U.S. border and sexually abusing her has pleaded guilty to two federal U.S. charges.Noah Madrano, 43, was arrested by FBI agents in July 2022 in Oregon City, Ore., with police saying he was found with the 13-year-old girl who had been missing for more than a week.CBC News is not naming the girl, or her family members, to protect her identity as a minor.Madrano admitted Monday in the U.S. District Court of Oregon to two of the si
HALIFAX — The trial for a Halifax youth accused of participating in the killing of a 16-year-old student last year heard Monday from one of the victim’s friends, but much of his testimony was debunked by a defence lawyer.
Scarlett Vickers died after an incident in the kitchen of a house in Darlington in July last year.
Police say that the woman was alleged sexually abused and gangraped when she was a minor.
Calgary police struggled to control the violence and destruction carried out by two groups of Eritrean Calgarians, a judge heard Monday, as one detective testified it took nearly 200 officers as well as tear gas grenades and nearly 2,000 rounds of PepperBalls to separate the clashing sides. A trial began Monday for five men accused of participating in what police and prosecutors have described as a riot. The five men — Amanuel Kiflezgi Sium, Yamin Okubahanes, Gebrekid Hailemariam, Musie Estifano
Suspect Ryant Jones faces first-degree murder charges in Louisiana.
