The Vatican expressed “shame and sorrow” Thursday over a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report about clergy who raped and molested children in six dioceses in that state, calling the abuse “criminally and morally reprehensible” and saying Pope Francis wants to eradicate “this tragic horror.”
Read moreThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court is giving those who’ve sought to block release of a grand jury report into allegations of child sexual abuse and cover-ups in the state’s Roman Catholic dioceses a chance to respond to news organizations’ effort to make it public.
Read moreOne of the Russian companies indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller failed Friday to secure a federal judge’s review of grand jury instructions.
Read moreThe Kansas Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a citizen-initiated grand jury petition can investigate Secretary of State Kris Kobach on allegations that he intentionally failed to register qualified voters.
Read moreOne of the three Russian companies charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election asked a federal judge Monday to privately review the grand jury instructions.
Read moreThe special counsel leading the Russia investigation raised the prospect in March of issuing a grand jury subpoena for President Donald Trump, his former attorney said, confirming that investigators have floated the extraordinary idea of forcing a sitting president to testify under oath.
Read moreA former Trump campaign aide arrived Friday at the federal courthouse in Washington for a scheduled grand jury appearance days after he defiantly insisted in a series of news interviews that he intended to defy a subpoena in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Read moreA grand jury convened Tuesday over the fatal shooting of an Australian woman by a Minneapolis police officer last summer, a month after a state prosecutor called for further investigation.
Read moreA grand jury’s report in the wake of a fraternity pledge’s drinking death said Friday that Penn State officials displayed “a shocking apathy” to dangers from excessive drinking and that its inaction allowed criminal acts to occur.
Read moreA Missouri appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a member of the Michael Brown grand jury who sought to go public with her experience.
Read moreFinding that prosecutors created an impermissible “gravitational pull towards a guilty verdict,” a New York appeals court refused Thursday to reinstate an indictment obtained via unconstitutional short cut.
Read moreA grand jury used by special counsel Robert Mueller has heard secret testimony from a Russian-American lobbyist who attended a June 2016 meeting with President Donald Trump’s eldest son, The Associated Press has learned.
Read moreDescribing herself as “heartbroken,” the mother of a Guinean immigrant killed by police spoke at a prayer service Tuesday morning before New York federal prosecutors announced her son’s killer would not be charged.
Read moreFive years after bankruptcy capsized the video game company started by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, a judge’s restraining order has thrown a wrench in Rhode Island’s effort to get answers on the pricey boondoggle.
Read moreA Kansas federal jury awarded nearly $218 million on Friday to farmers who sued Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its introduction of a genetically engineered corn seed variety.
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The Oakland City Council violated open-meeting laws by awarding more than $500 million in contracts to developers for public properties in some of Oakland’s most valuable neighborhoods, according to a grand jury report released Monday.
Read moreAn Orange County grand jury report released Tuesday said no evidence exists that prosecutors are using an unconstitutional secret jailhouse informant program for criminal investigations.
Read moreAmid the fallout of President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas seeking the business records of known associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Read moreThe NAACP’s Cleveland branch asked the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas to release all grand jury transcripts in the investigation into the police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, arguing the process may have been tainted by a former prosecutor.
Read moreBeleaguered Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha resigned during a closed-door meeting with the city’s police commission Friday, following the revelation that he is under investigation by a federal grand jury.
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