A three-day auction of Betty White’s personal belongings memorabilia raised $4 million – exceeding the auction’s original estimate of $400,000 to $600,000. Thousands of bidders attended the auction, either live in Beverly Hills or online, where 1,600 pieces were for sale. The top-selling item was White’s director’s chair from “The …
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The defense for R. Kelly and two co-defendants rested Friday at the R&B singer’s trial on charges of trial-fixing, child pornography and enticing minors for sex, with closing arguments and the start of jury deliberations scheduled for early next week. Minutes before resting, Kelly co-defendant and ex-business manager Derrell McDavid …
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South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a grand jury in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump’s conduct after losing the 2020 election. Graham had asked a federal judge to quash a subpoena, arguing that he was performing “legislative acts” when he twice called Georgia Secretary of State Brad …
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A judge had no authority to issue indictments in the Flint water scandal, the Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday, wiping out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and seven other people. It’s an astonishing defeat for Attorney General Dana Nessel, who took office in 2019, got rid …
Read More »Update: CBS News has confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is President Biden’s pick. Read the latest here. Our earlier story is below. President Biden is likely to announce his Supreme Court nominee selection Friday, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is the frontrunner, CBS News has learned. Two sources familiar with the …
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Denver police say they have identified a man responsible for killing three women and a 17-year-old girl in separate incidents between 1978 and 1981 by using DNA technology and genealogy to link the cold cases to a single suspect. The man, Joe Michael Ervin, killed himself in a suburban Denver …
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Firefighters extinguished a large fire at a Houston-area oil refinery that broke out early Thursday, injuring four people. Four people were injured but everyone else on site has been accounted for, said Rohan Davis, the refinery’s manager. Three of the injured were taken to hospitals by helicopter while the fourth …
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A former Georgia school administrator has been indicted on a murder charge after investigators accused him of poisoning his ailing wife with a cocaine overdose in 2019. CBS affiliate WMAZ-TV reports indictments issued last week charge Edward Judie Jr. of Macon with felony murder and violating state drug laws. A previously …
Read More »A 30-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to 9 years and 2 months in prison for fraudulently acquiring more than $1.6 million in funds through the government’s coronavirus pandemic Paycheck Protection Program [PPP], the Department of Justice said Monday. The government said Lee Price III had pleaded guilty in September to …
Read More »CNN anchor and journalist Chris Cuomo sought to help tailor former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s responses to allegations of sexual misconduct, according to documents released Monday by the state’s attorney general. Chris Cuomo has previously acknowledged involvement in his brother’s response to the allegations, but the new documents shed …
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