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On Aug. 2, 10-month-old Mary Anne Welch was found dead in her crib in her Michigan home. An autopsy determined that she died from malnutrition and dehydration “due to neglect by adult care givers.” So, the police arrested her parents, Seth Welch and Tatiana Fusari,...
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Illinois’ long-closed Joliet Correctional Center opens for public tours on Tuesday. The Chicago Tribune describes it as “surrounded by a 25-foot-tall limestone wall that looks like it was dipped into a cauldron of bile.” The administration building, the castle-looking centerpiece of the facility, was built...
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It’s been 24 years since O.J. Simpson’s acquittal in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman divided public opinion in a way that perhaps no other verdict in U.S. history has. At 85, F. Lee Bailey, one of the...
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Jailed for the past month on charges that she used sex to infiltrate U.S. political circles, accused Russian agent Mariia Butina asked a federal judge to release her on bond, Courthouse News reports. Signed by defense attorneys Robert Driscoll and Alfred Carry, a motion to...
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Ken Wyniemko spent nine years in prison before DNA proved he wasn’t a rapist. He’s been free since 2003, but he’s still haunted by the horrors of Michigan penitentiary life, reports the Detroit News. “When I was locked up, I saw people get stabbed to...
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Ever since Shawn Fanning launched Napster from his Northeastern University dorm in 1999 and upended the music business, every industry has been on guard about a potential tech disruption.
There’s legitimate cause for such concern. Uber really has changed the taxi and limousine industry. Airbnb has...