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White Pigeon officer pleads guilty to drunk driving
We've learned that an officer who works for a police department in Southwest Michigan has pleaded guilty to drunk driving charges. In April, Sargent William Burgoyne and Chief Lynn Baker of the White Pigeon Police Department in St. Joseph County were... -
ACLU sues over Indiana gay youth plates
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, seeking the reinstatement of specialty auto license plates for a group that counsels gay and lesbian...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Litigation, American Civil Liberties Union
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Man, 20, pleads no-contest plea to murdering dad with baseball bat
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A 20-year-old Detroit-area man has short-circuited his murder trial by pleading no-contest to accusations he killed his father and injured his mother and brother with a baseball bat. Tucker Cipriano entered the plea Monday...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Justice System, Court Preliminary
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Indiana woman condemned for killing Bible teacher at 15 is freed
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A woman who was sentenced to death at age 16 for taking part in the torture and murder of a 78-year-old bible studies teacher was released from an Indiana prison Monday after growing to middle age behind bars. Paula Cooper,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Human Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, Death Penalty
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Ind. agency sued over cuts to program for disabled
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal lawsuit says Indiana's social services agency has made changes to Medicaid waiver programs that threaten to deprive thousands of developmentally disabled people of income they need to survive outside of institutions....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Justice System, Parkinson's Disease, Litigation
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REACTION: Former St. Joseph County Democratic chairman sentenced to year in prison
Nearly 5 years after it happened, and two years after it was uncovered, sentencing has been handed down for the former head of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party, Butch Morgan, former party worker Dustin Blythe, and two co-defendants. Morgan, who...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Punishment, John Broden
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Sex charges fly in Menard-Hilbert legal battle
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A former Indiana business partner of hardware kingpin John Menard contends in a lawsuit that the Wisconsin billionaire pressured her to have sex with him and his wife and retaliated by firing her husband as a financial...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Donald Trump, Economy, Business and Finance, New Products, Laws
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At least 24 men wrongly convicted or arrested on bite evidence exonerated
At least 24 men convicted or arrested based largely on murky bite-mark evidence have been exonerated by DNA testing, had charges dropped or otherwise been proved not guilty. Many spent more than a decade in prison, and one man was behind bars for more...
Tags: Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Criminal Laws, Crimes
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UPDATE: New review for deaths of mom, 2 kids in Ind. creek
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana prosecutor has decided to have a grand jury review the deaths of a woman and her two young children whose nude bodies were found in a shallow creek in March. The move by Floyd County Prosecutor Keith...
Tags: Witnesses, Crime, Law and Justice, Hypothermia, Prosecution, Justice System
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School firearm threat a bad idea, but Dowagiac teen avoids prison term
South Bend TribuneCASSOPOLIS — A Dowagiac teenager found out the hard way today in Cass County Circuit Court that it’s not a good idea to threaten someone with a firearm, particularly in school. It wasn’t a good idea either that Joshua Clark, 18, had...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Mental Health, Prosecution, Heroin, Firearms
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3 charged with hacking into Purdue profs' accounts
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A Purdue University graduate and two former students accused of breaking into their professors' computer accounts to change grades are facing criminal charges. Roy Chaoran Sun, 25, of Andover, Mass., and Mitsutoshi...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Prosecution, Colleges and Universities, Electronics, Teachers
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2 Ind. men have 1st court hearing in woman's death
BLOOMFIELD, Ind. (AP) — The father of one of two southwestern Indiana men accused of killing a 19-year-old woman and dumping her body in a remote lake said anyone who knows his son knows he couldn't have done it. "I swear to God. If I would have...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Justice System, Judges
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