Crime
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Clean Energy Jobs Act reintroduced with stricter utility accountabilityFeb 09, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Following the admission in court by utility giant ComEd to a yearslong bribery scheme, lawmakers are reintroducing the Clean Energy Jobs Act in the General...
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Melodie Gliniewicz's trial date set for late MayFeb 09, 2021 12:00 am - Widow of disgraced Fox Lake cop accused of helping him steal from youth program
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R. Kelly's trial in New York delayed
Feb 09, 2021 12:00 am - A federal judge in Brooklyn on Tuesday delayed the trial there of R&B singer R. Kelly until August, saying an earlier trial date was unrealistic amid the coronavirus pan...
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Polish court rules record compensation for wrongful jailing
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A Polish court on Monday ordered a record high compensation of nearly 13 million zlotys ($3.4 million) to a man who had spent 18 years in prison fo...
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3 years' probation issued in Puerto Rico cruise ship death
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window of a cruise ship doc...
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Justice Dept. seeks resignations of Trump-era US attorneys
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department will ask U.S. attorneys who were appointed by former President Donald Trump to resign from their posts, as the Biden administrat...
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Georgia election officials investigate Trump call
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's secretary of state's office on Monday opened an investigation into a phone call between Donald Trump and the state's top elections official in w...
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Trump's trial starting: 'Grievous crime' or just 'theater'?
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate launches Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial on Tuesday, with lawyers for the former president insisting he is not guilty of in...
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Israeli PM pleads not guilty as corruption trial resumes
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty Monday as his trial on corruption charges resumed in a Jerusalem courtroom just weeks befor...
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Man charged in US Capitol riot worked for FBI, lawyer says
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who authorities say is a leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and helped to organize a ring of other extremists and led them in the...