NEW ORLEANS — The man convicted of killing former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith has asked for a new trial because the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that split verdicts are unconstitutional in state criminal cases. Appeal attorney Eric Santana filed a request Wednesday asking for
The coronavirus just hit too close to home for Elizabeth Warren. She announced Thursday that her oldest brother has died of the illness in Oklahoma. Don Reed Herring was 86, 16 years Warren’s senior, and he was diagnosed with COVID-19 about three weeks ago, reports the Boston Globe.
Four Indiana men who allegedly broke into a woman’s home and confined her for hours to steal her stimulus check have been charged, police said. Top, Paul David Blankenship, Phillip David Guzman, and bottom, Christopher William Jay Henderson and Jacob Baughman.Lake County Jail Paul Blankenship,
Commissioner Roger Goodell won’t have to leave his “man cave” to preside over this year’s NFL draft, because it’s going to be a “virtual extravaganza,” per the New York Post—meaning the entire thing will be produced remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s the first fully
Africa registered a 43% jump in reported COVID-19 cases in the last week, highlighting a warning from the World Health Organization that the continent could become the next epicenter of the global outbreak, per the AP. Africa also has a “very, very limited” and “very, very
Forty different languages are spoken at the South Dakota pork processing plant that has become a coronavirus hot spot, but workers who showed symptoms were sent home with informational packets that were written only in English, federal investigators revealed Thursday. That failure to communicate may be part
For a guy who cherishes his privacy, Tom Brady is developing a knack for making headlines in his new home state of Florida. First came news that he was working out in a Tampa park and had to be informed by a parks worker that it was
Michael Oghia was on a Zoom videoconference with about 20 climate activists last week when someone hijacked the presenter’s screen to show a video of explicit child pornography involving an infant. “It took me a moment to process it,” said Oghia, advocacy and engagement manager