Prosecutors in Florida are demanding the death penalty for Tyshael Elise Martin, a 35-year-old woman accused of ordering her dog to attack her boyfriend’s 9-year-old daughter before brutally beating her to death. The Fifth Judicial Circuit’s state attorneys filed a motion calling for the death sentence due to the particularly gruesome nature of the crime.…
Intrum (INTRUM.ST), Europe’s largest debt collector, announced on Friday that it will file for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States to restructure its finances. The company has faced challenges as the pandemic, an energy crisis, and two-decade-high interest rates failed to trigger a wave of loan defaults. Concerns have grown over Intrum’s…
A federal judge in California has granted Google’s request to temporarily pause his order requiring the Alphabet unit to revamp its Android app store, Google Play, by November 1. This order aimed to provide consumers with more options for downloading software. San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge James Donato made this decision on Friday amid an…
Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, the notorious drug kingpin and co-founder of the Black Mafia Family (BMF), has been released from prison after serving 15 years for his role in one of the largest drug trafficking and money laundering operations in U.S. history. Flenory’s early release was confirmed by Billboard after his sentence was reduced from…
A U.S. judge on Friday publicly released additional evidence collected by prosecutors in the federal criminal case against former President Donald Trump, who faces accusations of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. This newly unsealed evidence consists of hundreds of pages, many marked as “sealed” or redacted, and includes material referenced in a comprehensive…
A Colorado woman, Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, has secured an $8.5 million settlement in a civil lawsuit after she was struck by a freight train while handcuffed in the back of a police car. The accident resulted in severe injuries and raised significant concerns over police misconduct. The near-fatal event occurred in 2022 when Rios-Gonzalez, then 20,…
Tennessee’s abortion ban faces scrutiny over its medical emergency exception, as a court has ruled the language lacks clarity. This ruling prevents the state from enforcing the ban in specific medical situations while a lawsuit progresses, initiated by doctors and women who claim they were denied necessary abortions. On Thursday, a three-judge panel from the…
In a significant ruling that impacts the upcoming U.S. election, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney temporarily suspended a Georgia state rule requiring the hand-counting of paper ballots. This decision came after an expedited bench trial addressing emergency motions from involved parties, marking a pivotal moment in Georgia’s electoral process. The hand-counting rule was…
On Wednesday, Nebraska’s top state court upheld a law allowing felons who have completed their sentences to vote, enabling thousands more people to participate in the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election. The Nebraska Supreme Court rejected claims by Secretary of State Robert Evnen, a Republican, who argued that the law, passed in April, violated the…