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A former Georgia wide receiver was arrested on Wednesday and charged with the 2021 murder of an Athens-area gas station attendant, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office announced, via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ahkil Crumpton was arrested and charged after police said he shot and killed 23-year-old Elijah James Wood at a RaceTrac gas station early on March 19, 2021. Crumpton, a Philadelphia native who has been under investigation since last month, allegedly was dressed in all black with… Source link

Sergio Mitre, seen here with the Mexican national team in 2018, was sentenced to 40-to-60 years in prison in Mexico this week. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images) Former MLB pitcher Sergio Mitre was sentenced to prison in Mexico this week after he was found guilty of raping and murdering the 22-month-old daughter of his former girlfriend. Mitre, 41, was found guilty on Wednesday night and sentenced to 40-to-60 years in prison, according to NJ.com. Per the report, Mitre attacked the baby in July 2020… Source link

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, more than one year after Floyd’s death sparked an international movement against police brutality. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, who presided over Chauvin’s murder trial, handed down a sentence of 270 months for charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s May 25, 2020, death. Chauvin… Source link

The Guardian Belichick’s exit plan and a JJ Watt trade: NFL subplots to watch in 2021 Will Aaron Rodgers depart Green Bay after an MVP-caliber season? Will Bill Belichick leave New England before it turns ugly? There’s no shortage of meaty NFL plotlines in 2021The NFL’s general attitude towards 2020 can be summed up succinctly: What pandemic?Whereas other leagues ground to a halt, considered voiding their seasons, entered into complex bubbles or faced existential crises, the NFL thundered… Source link

Google has released its list of the top trending searches in the US for 2020, and as one might expect, “coronavirus,” “election results,” and “Zoom” led the way. To be clear: these aren’t top searches or most-searched topics. Rather, they’re “searches that had a high spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2020 as compared to 2019,” Google said. As year-in-review content goes, it’s pretty depressing; also among the top trending searches were Kobe Bryant, Naya… Source link

Former Tampa Bay Rays prospect Brandon Martin has been sentenced to life in prison after murdering three people, including his father, with a baseball bat, according to Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times. Martin will not be eligible for parole during the sentence. Just in: A Riverside County Superior Court jury has returned a verdict of life in prison without the possibility of parole for ex-Tampa Bay Rays prospect Brandon Martin after he was convicted of murdering three people, including… Source link

PHOENIX (AP) — A former Arizona prosecutor known for winning a conviction in the Jodi Arias murder case agreed Friday to be disbarred in an ethics case in which he was accused of leaking the identity of an Arias juror and sexually harassing female law clerks in his office. Juan Martinez agreed to give up his license to practice law, ending the ethics case that was scheduled to go to trial in November. Even though he still disputes the allegations, Martinez said in a court filing that “I no… Source link

William Marcus “Marc” Wilson believed he was standing his ground when he fired at a pickup truck he says was trying to run his car off the road as he drove home with his girlfriend one night last month. He had a licensed handgun with him, and he might have assumed that he was covered by Georgia’s “stand your ground” law, which reads, in part, “A person who uses threats or force … in defense of self or others … in defense of a habitation, or … in defense of property other… Source link