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Menendez brothers’ family foundation organization: “New Covenant of Hope”

Amid the emotional weight of a 35-year battle, Anamaria Baralt stood alongside nearly two dozen members of the Menendez family, whose voices united in the call for justice for brothers Erik and Lyle. “Here we are, both sides of the family – united. We share a new bond of hope,” said Baralt, Jose Menendez’s niece. […]

By Andrew Jack

October 19, 2024October 19, 2024

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Sean “Diddy” Combs will appear before the judge for the first time in the sex trafficking case

NEW YORK – NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs will make his first appearance before the judge expected to preside over the hip-hop leader's trial on sex trafficking charges. Combs will be transported from a Brooklyn jail to federal court in Manhattan, where he is scheduled to appear before Judge Arun Subramanian on Thursday […]

By Andrew Jack

October 10, 2024October 10, 2024

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Marcellus Williams was executed for murder in 1998. Was he guilty or innocent?

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (AP) — Shortly before his death, Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was given the opportunity to make one final statement to the world. He spoke few words – neither claiming his innocence nor admitting guilt in the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and former reporter for the St. […]

By Andrew Jack

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

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Missouri executes man for 1998 murder of woman despite her family's requests to spare his life

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman's home and killing her, despite demands from her family and the prosecutor who put him on death row to let him spend the rest of his life in prison. Marcellus WilliamsThe 55-year-old was convicted of the 1998 murder of […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

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Missouri judge rejects Marcellus Williams' claim of innocence as he faces execution

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge on Thursday declined to consider the conviction and death sentence against Marcellus Williamsa Missouri man is scheduled to be executed later this month for stabbing a woman to death in 1998, although there are doubts about DNA evidence on the knife used in the attack. St. Louis County Circuit […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

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Woman claims in lawsuit that Sean “Diddy” Combs raped her on video

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another woman sues Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday, claiming that the music mogul and his security chief raped her and videotaped it in his New York recording studio in 2001. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, is the latest of several similar lawsuits against Combs, coming a week […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

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Lawyers ask the Supreme Court to intervene just hours before the scheduled execution of a Missouri inmate

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri – Lawyers for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed Tuesday night have filed a new appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming racial bias and constitutional errors occurred during his trial. Marcellus Williams, 55, long maintained his innocence in the 1998 death of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and former newspaper […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

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Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed today for murder in 1998

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (AP) — A Missouri man seeking to avoid execution suffered a double setback Monday: Both the state Supreme Court and the governor rejected a request to cancel his planned lethal injection. Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle. The social worker […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024