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Animal Welfare Group Sues on Behalf of Isolated Chimp
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In what it calls “a landmark case for animal protection,” the Animal Legal Defense Fund has filed a suit against the Dixie Landin’ amusement park for keeping a chimpanzee in solitary confinement for 40 years. So reports The Shreveport Times.
Read more...Woman Arrested for Twerking Against Man Without Permission
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Police have arrested one of two women who rubbed up against a man in a sexual way and grabbed his groin without his permission in a D.C. gas station. So reports NBC News.
Read more...Canadian Judge Under Investigation for Asking Rape Victim Outrageous Questions
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A Canadian judicial review board is investigating a Canadian federal court judge for what law school professors have called his “sexist and degrading” behavior during a sexual assault case. So reports the New York Post.
Read more...Mom Admits to Killing Disabled Daughter, Gets Prison Time
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A woman in Long Island, N.Y., who admitted to the manslaughter of her wheelchair-bound 8-year-old daughter, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. So reports the Associated Press.
Read more...Penn. Man Gets Life Sentence for Killing Adult Stepdaughter, Sexually Abusing Corpse
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A Pennsylvania judge sentenced a man to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he admitted to killing his stepdaughter and committing necrophilia with her corpse. So reports The Morning Call.
Read more...Bill Cosby to Be Deposed in Defamation Case Brought by Model
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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered Bill Cosby and his former attorney to give depositions in model Janice Dickinson's defamation lawsuit against the comedian for denying that he sexually assaulted her. So reports People.
Read more...Husband Finally Charged With 2009 Murder of Estranged Wife
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A man has been arrested for the 2009 murder of his estranged wife, who was found in the bathtub of the family’s New York City apartment the day before she was supposed to cut him out of her $4 million will. So reports the New York Post.
Read more...Student Learns He Was Abducted 13 Years Ago After Applying to College
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A 2002 child abduction case was finally solved when the abductee, Julian Hernandez, tried to apply to colleges using a phony social security number provided to him by his father. So reports USA Today.
Read more...Feds Thwart AZ Attempt to Import Illegal Lethal Injection Drug
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At the Phoenix International Airport, federal agents stopped the shipment of sodium thiopental, an execution drug that is no longer manufactured by FDA-approved companies. So reports the Associated Press.
Read more...Pharmacy Owners Charged with Illegally Selling Record Amount of Oxycodone
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An undercover agent busted a husband and wife team who, from their small store, sold 430,000 oxycodone pills without valid prescriptions in 2013 alone, prosecutors say. So reports the New York Post.
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