SAN FRANCISCO – A judge has relieved California’s attorney general of the duty to process a proposed ballot initiative that advocated killing anyone who engages in gay sex. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei ruled late Monday that the so-called Sodomite Suppression Act was patently unconstitutional. Cadei said it …
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DUBUQUE, Iowa – A 75-year-old Dubuque man has scratched off two winning tickets in one day. One was worth $100,000, the other $930. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1NjVOT0 ) that Ken Broadwell bought both of his Tuesday winners at the same convenience store in Dubuque. He said Wednesday that …
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SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – Some Oregonians woke on the Fourth of July to a significant jolt when a magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck near Springfield and Eugene. Hundreds of people reported to the U.S. Geological Survey that they felt the quake, which struck at 8:42 a.m. Saturday. Usually, there isn’t any damage …
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NUTLEY, N.J. – Police are trying to figure out how a child’s gravestone ended up at a bus station in northern New Jersey. An employee found the headstone at the NJ Transit Bus Terminal in Nutley, about 15 miles west of New York City, on Wednesday. The headstone is engraved …
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting case reached a decision Friday on whether James Holmes should be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty. They deliberated for about six and a half hours over two days. The sentence will be announced at 7pm ET. The …
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NEW YORK – New York City police say a man has been arrested on charges of assault and reckless endangerment after an officer assigned to guard the mayor was struck with a pellet gun. The 19-year-old man was arrested Monday in the assault on the officer outside Gracie Mansion, where …
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. – One of Oregon’s first hemp farmers says a lack of seed is making it tough to get going. Josephine County Commissioner Cheryl Walker says fertile seed is expensive and hard to come by because the federal government prohibits imports. She figures it will take three years …
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ALBANY, N.Y. – A man refusing to say what he did with money from the sale of property during divorce proceedings is urging New York’s highest court to refuse to hold him in contempt. Arguing Thursday before the Court of Appeals, Sam Reed’s lawyer says Reed doesn’t have to testify …
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Failure wasn’t an option. With the entire case against Bryan Kohberger on the line, an Idaho prosecutor held steady and helped convince a judge to allow controversial DNA evidence to stand – despite the FBI violating its own policy to obtain it. Jeff Nye, chief of the criminal division at …
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The family of the late Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Jeffrey Epstein accuser, slammed last week’s release of prison interview transcripts between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. The family accused the DOJ of giving Maxwell an opportunity to “rewrite history.” “The content of these transcripts …
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