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Mother charged after allegedly ordering daughter to hit opponent

A mother has been charged with two misdemeanors after allegedly being caught on video yelling at her daughter to hit an opposing player, which she did, during a youth basketball game in Garden Grove, California. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that Latira Shonty Hunt, 44, is facing one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and one misdemeanor count of battery. If convicted, she faces up to one year in an Orange County jail. In a video of the attack… Source link

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Google to pay AFP for news after charged nearly $600M fine

Google has agreed to pay Agence France-Presse for news content following a nasty legal and regulatory battle that saw the tech giant fined nearly $600 million by French authorities.  The deal comes after years of complaints by news publishers around the world about Google and Facebook using stories in search results without paying them. Some advertisers that used to support newspapers and magazines have also increasingly gravitated toward the tech giants,… Source link

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Twitter User ‘Alexander Delarge’ Charged for Hyping Penny Stocks

(Bloomberg) — The man behind a popular Twitter account that promoted penny stocks was criminally charged for touting securities while simultaneously dumping shares, the latest sign that authorities are setting their sites on the social-media frenzy that’s invaded U.S. equity markets. Most Read from Bloomberg Steven Gallagher, 50, was taken into custody in Ohio Tuesday for running a pump-and-dump scheme that netted him more than $1 million through the Twitter handle, @AlexDelarge6553,… Source link

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Lord Ashcroft’s Daughter-in-Law Charged in Shooting of Belize Cop

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos Linkedin/Facebook The daughter-in-law of British political and business titan Lord Michael Ashcroft was charged Monday with manslaughter by negligence in the shooting death of a top police officer in Belize. The arraignment of Jasmine Hartin, 38, comes three days after she was initially detained—after being found spattered with blood on a dock where she and Superintendent Henry Jemmott had been socializing alone after curfew. police… Source link

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Boxer Felix Verdejo charged in grisly death of pregnant girlfriend

Felix Verdejo is chaged in the grisly death of his pregnant lover. (Mikey Williams/Top Rank via Getty Images) Lightweight boxer Felix Verdejo has been charged in the kidnapping death of his pregnant lover, authorities announced Sunday night.  Verdejo turned himself into federal agents in San Juan after the body of 27-year-old Keishla Rodriguez was found in a Puerto Rico lagoon. Rodriguez had been reported missing two days prior to her body being discovered in the U.S. territory. The U.S…. Source link

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French actor Gerard Depardieu charged with rape

French actor Gerard Depardieu has been charged with rape and sexual assault allegedly committed in 2018 against an actress in her 20s, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday. An initial investigation into the rape accusations against Depardieu, 72, was dropped in 2019 for lack of evidence but reopened last summer, leading to criminal charges filed in December, the source said. The actress accuses Depardieu of having raped and assaulted her at his Parisian home in August 2018. Depardieu’s lawyer,… Source link

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Scott Erickson charged in connection with fatal hit and run

Former MLB pitcher Scott Erickson has been charged with a misdemeanor count of reckless driving in connection with a fatal hit and run in Westlake Village, California, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. Erickson, 52, was reportedly involved in a race with a car driven by Rebecca Grossman moments before Grossman’s vehicle struck and killed two boys in a crosswalk on Sept. 29. Erickson was charged with reckless driving, and is due in court on March 16. Grossman was charged with two… Source link

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‘Devil Worshiper’ Charged With Another Murder—Just Months After Release on Bail

Houston Police Department After spending four years behind bars awaiting trial for allegedly killing his teenage friend, Edward O’Neal was temporarily granted his freedom when his bond was reduced over the summer. But just four months after posting bail, Texas authorities say the alleged devil worshipper has killed again—fatally shooting his cousin’s ex-boyfriend before admitting the crime to his mother. “I told the DA he should not get out. He killed my son, he’ll be killing… Source link

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