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Hundreds of guns are being swapped for gift cards in Phoenix, where two anonymous donors have given $100,000 apiece to help fund what some say may be the city’s last series of gun buybacks.It’s the third buyback the city has held in May, racing to take unwanted guns off the hands of residents before a new state law goes into effect that would require police to resell any lost, forfeited or abandon...
O.J. Simpson, making a long-shot bid for a new trial, testified Wednesday that he had been drinking steadily on the day of a 2007 gunpoint confrontation over sports memorabilia that he claimed was stolen from him.Simpson, who claims he got bad legal representation before he was thrown in prison on a robbery conviction in 2008, took the witness stand in Las Vegas. He has appeared grayer and heavier...
The American Legislative Exchange Council, its corporate backers and extremist Missouri lawmakers may have won the first round in their drive to silence working people with a paycheck deception bill, when the House gave it final approval (86-69) earlier this week.
Jurors who convicted Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell of first-degree murder said Wednesday it was wrenching to sift through the gruesome evidence that he delivered three babies alive and then killed them.“It was business as usual for him,” juror David Misko told reporters outside the courthouse where Gosnell was sentenced to a third life term as part of a deal that allowed him to avoid...
