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Samuel Bateman, a polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal prison sentence in a child sex abuse case, was convicted in Arizona on state child abuse charges stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in which authorities found three girls locked inside an enclosed trailer.A Coconino County jury found Bateman guilty Friday on three counts of child abuse. The verdict came after about 40 minutes of deliberation. Bateman is scheduled […]

Mackenzie Shirilla’s bid to get Ohio’s highest court to review her latest appeal has crashed.The Ohio Supreme Court declined to accept jurisdiction in Shirilla’s case, leaving intact a lower-court ruling that tossed her postconviction petition because it was filed one day too late.In an entry filed June 23, the court said it had reviewed the jurisdictional filings but would not take the case. The order was signed by Chief Justice […]

A U.S. Marine serving aboard the USS Anchorage went missing during a training exercise off the Southern California coast, prompting a massive multi-agency search that has since transitioned to a recovery operation, the Navy said.According to the Navy, the Makin Island Amphious Ready Group launched the search at about 1:21 a.m. Thursday after the Marine was reported missing during integrated training with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit.The Navy said the […]

One of the defining images of 2020 featured two homeowners, two firearms and a confrontation that ignited a national firestorm.Six years later, the legal, political and cultural fallout from that moment continues to reverberate through debates over self-defense, private property rights, public protest and prosecutorial power.On June 28, 2020, as racial justice protests swept cities across America following the death of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter demonstrators made their way […]