A group of defendants facing various charges in the Jan. 6 insurrection are electing to represent themselves Some of the defendants charged in the storming of the U.S. Capitol are turning away defense lawyers and electing to represent themselves, undeterred by their lack of legal training or repeated warnings from judges. That choice already has…
Some places are experiencing a more difficult path to release monies they need At the Loma Verde Recreation Center south of San Diego, demolition work is underway on a $24 million project that will rebuild the facility from the ground up, complete with a new pool. An hour’s drive to the north, the iconic bridge…
Professor Gordon Klein’s response to an email asking him to grade his students differently who may be undergoing ‘racial trauma’ was met with calls for his termination Gordon Klein, a long-time professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), has sued the college in response to a suspension he faced after he refused…
Spokesman says Clinton’s health indicators were “trending in the right direction” Bill Clinton was released Sunday from the Southern California hospital where he had been treated for an infection. The former president was released around 8 a.m. from the University of California Irvine Medical Center. Clinton, 75, was admitted Tuesday to the hospital southeast of…
An unidentified elderly Black man was found on a sidewalk in Conyers, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, with medical tubes still attached after being discharged from a hospital nearby because Medicare would not continue coverage for his treatment. The 68-year-old man was discovered collapsed near the Piedmont Rockdale Hospital on Thursday, Oct. 14. According to…
The county requests Kobe Bryant’s widow be questioned to pinpoint what caused her emotional distress When Vanessa Bryant filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County in the wake of the untimely deaths of her husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna last year, she accused the county’s sheriff’s department of causing emotional distress after photos were…
The entire episode in suburban Philadelphia was captured on surveillance video that showed other people on the train at the time, official says A woman was raped by a stranger on a commuter train in suburban Philadelphia in the presence of other riders who a police official said “should have done something.” Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt…
Defense attorneys for former officer Kim Potter could argue Wright’s death was an innocent mistake, among other reasons A former suburban Minneapolis police officer who has said she meant to use a Taser instead of a handgun when she shot and killed Daunte Wright in April is laying out her potential defenses ahead of her November trial….
50 Cent is still seeking nearly $50,000 from reality star Teairra Mari. Radar Online reported on Wednesday, Oct. 13, that 50 Cent is back in court after Mari failed to turn over money a judge ordered her to pay. But that’s not all. Even Mari’s lawyer, Edward Ward, claims that she owes him money as…
Sean Urbanski was sentenced to life for killing Lt. Richard Collins III in 2017 A white man serving a life sentence for stabbing a Black college student to death at a bus stop at the University of Maryland has asked the state’s second highest court to throw out his murder conviction. WTOP-FM reports that Sean Urbanski’s…
