Epstein Rape Probe
The chief Paris prosecutor announced Friday that he will investigate the rape of minors, age 15 and older, as well as other charges linked to the case of the late wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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LAPD Officer Must Face Some Claims in Shooting of Teens
The Ninth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity Wednesday to a Los Angeles police officer facing excessive-force claims for firing into a group of teenagers after he mistook a replica gun for a real weapon.
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Jane Doe sued Los Angeles County, its Sheriff’s Department and Det. Neil David Kimball, claiming Kimball raped her when she was 14 and he was a member of the Sex Crimes Unit, in Superior Court.
Read moreSexual Assault
A student brought a federal complaint against the Riverhead Central School District, saying high school principal Charles Regan sexually harassed, seduced and assaulted her.
Read moreMan Charged With Assault in National Anthem Flap With Teen
A U.S. Army veteran who choked and threw a 14-year-old boy to the ground for not removing his hat during the national anthem at a small-town Montana rodeo pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of assault.
Read moreEpstein Accuser Fights for Damages on Heels of New Law
A woman who says Jeffrey Epstein began sexually abusing her when she was just 14 filed suit Wednesday against the late sex offender’s estate and alleged accomplices, invoking a law that just took effect in New York for child sex abuse survivors to seek civil damages.
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Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Setting Sail for the United States
Greta Thunberg’s two-week voyage to the United States will be no pleasure cruise. The 16-year-old climate change activist who has inspired student protests around the world will leave Plymouth, England, this week bound for New York in a high-tech but low-comfort sailboat.
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Man Convinced Trump Ordered Him to Beat Child, Lawyer Says
A Montana man charged with assaulting a 13-year-old boy who did not remove his hat during the national anthem believed he was doing what President Trump wanted him to do, his attorney said.
Read moreNetflix & Chill
A federal judge refused to dismiss claims that a South Dakota high school punished a student after falsely claiming that her statement in an edition of the student newspaper that her hobby was to “Netflix and chill” with her boyfriend referred to having sex, and that the school did not punish male students who had said the same thing.
Read moreOhio Shooter Kept a ‘Hit List’ and a ‘Rape List’
High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling a “hit list” of people he wanted to kill and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault.
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US Teen Birth Rate Declines to Lowest Level on Record
The teen birth rate in the United States dipped to 18 births per 1,000, the lowest since statistics started being kept, the Pew Research Center said Friday.
Read moreFathers of Detained American Teenagers Arrive In Italy
The fathers of two American teenagers jailed in Italy over the death of a police officer arrived in Rome to support them, with one saying his son didn’t know his friend had the 7-inch, military-style knife said to have been used in the stabbing.
Read moreItaly Sheds More Light on Murder Involving US Teens
Italian police on Tuesday provided more details – but also stoked more questions – surrounding the killing of a plainclothes Carabiniere officer who is said to have been stabbed to death in central Rome by a teenager from California during a drug deal gone bad.
Read moreUS Teen Claims He Knifed Italian Officer in Self-Defense
One of two American teenagers jailed in Rome for allegedly slaying a police officer said he stabbed the plainclothes officer because he feared he was being strangled, according to a judge’s ruling obtained by The Associated Press on Monday.
Read more2 US Teens Jailed in Italy in Policeman’s Killing
Two American teenagers who were classmates at a California high school spent a second night in a Rome jail Saturday after they were interrogated for hours about their alleged roles in the murder of an Italian policeman.
Read moreJudge Dismisses $250 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Washington Post
A federal judge in Kentucky dismissed a $250 million libel and defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post, finding that the newspaper’s coverage of a January incident between a high school student and an American Indian activist was not defamatory in any way.
Read moreHouse Panel Grills Juul Chief Over E-Cig Marketing Tactics
In the span of a year, e-cigarette use among high school and middle school students increased by 1.5 million users, to 3.6 million young users in 2018. Several federal agencies have called the situation an epidemic.
Read moreICE Releases US Citizen Wrongfully Detained Near Border
A U.S.-born 18-year-old was released from immigration custody Tuesday after wrongfully being detained for more than three weeks.
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