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The trial for the Air Force official who was charged with sexual battery over the weekend will start on July 18, an Arlington District Court judge announced Thursday.Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, maintained a stoic facial expression throughout his brief arraignment. He did not speak, except briefly to acknowledge that he understood his charge of sexual battery.Sheryl Shane, Krusinski's lawye...
CLEVELAND – They’re the neighbors directly behind Cleveland’s house of horrors.Verdi and Kayla Adams never knew three women lived in captivity for a decade on the other side of their fence, as police claim, but they did have encounters with their neighbor, suspect Ariel Castro.Castro, a former school bus driver, is charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape in a case that has ...
For the first time in nearly a decade, the number of traffic deaths went up and a shift away from motorcycle helmet laws may be to blame, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and helmet advocacy groups.An improving economy, which leads to more discretionary driving, also played a role in the increase, according to NHTSA officials. “With a rebounding economy that ...
Yesterday, the AFL-CIO hosted the first Youth Economic Forum in its Washington, D.C., headquarters. Young leaders in the labor movement gathered with leaders of youth organizations to discuss ways to improve the economic reality faced by the millennial workforce. The goal of the forum is to produce a shared economic policy platform for the millennial generation.
NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors on Thursday revealed charges that accuse a Tunisian man who had lived in Canada with applying for a visa "to remain in the United States to facilitate an act of terrorism." The charges name Ahmed Abassi, a native of Tunisia who had been living in Canada. Prosecutors say he came to New York in mid-March. Federal investigators say he met with the men involved in a pl...
The mother of the Cleveland kidnapping suspect says her son is sick.Lilian Rodriguez, the mother of Ariel Castro, said outside her home in Cleveland on Thursday that she is suffering and had nothing to do with the abductions.“I ask for forgiveness from those mothers, that the girls will forgive me,” she told Telemundo in Spanish.Castro, 52, is accused of holding the three women captive for a decad...
A naked surfer washed up dead near a San Diego beach early Thursday with wounds consistent with a shark attack, authorities said.The 42-year-old man, who wasn't further identified because his family hadn't been notified, appeared to have been attacked after he died under other unusual circumstances in the water — possibly suicide — said Lt. John Everhart of San Diego Lifeguard Services, who cited ...
