Day: September 7, 2023

Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years in prison for forcible rape

6:48 pm September 7, 2023

Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted of rape. Masterson was found guilty on two counts of forcible rape in May. The jury was hung on a third charge during the trial after the seven men and five women deliberated for eight days. 30 years was the maximum sentence Masterson […]

Hartford police officer killed after speeding car runs through red light, strikes into cruiser

6:17 pm September 7, 2023

A police officer was killed and another was seriously injured Wednesday night when their cruiser was struck by a car speeding through a red light while fleeing a traffic stop in Connecticut’s capital city, authorities said. The driver of the car was arrested. Officer Robert “Bobby” Garten, 34, an eight-year veteran of Hartford police whose […]

Indiana man, who set fire that destroyed century-old historic building, sentenced to 9 years in prison

6:15 pm September 7, 2023

A southwestern Indiana man was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to setting a fire that gutted a historic century-old building which had been slated for restoration. A Vanderburgh County judge sentenced Charles James Perrin, 25, on Tuesday after the Evansville man pleaded guilty to felony charges of arson and criminal mischief […]

DOJ finds state-run veteran care in New Jersey was so bad it violated Constitution

6:15 pm September 7, 2023

New Jersey’s state-run care at two veterans homes was bad enough to violate the U.S. Constitution, the Justice Department said Thursday. The DOJ found that the residents of New Jersey Veterans Memorial Homes in Menlo Park and Paramus faced “unreasonable harm and risk,” violating the 14th Amendment. The investigation alleged that the occupants had “inadequate […]

New York deputy shoots 2 teens, feared their vehicle was going to run him over

6:13 pm September 7, 2023

A sheriff’s deputy investigating a burglary in upstate New York fatally shot two teenagers Wednesday who were in a vehicle he thought was about to run him over, according to authorities. The deputy fired three shots into the vehicle during an encounter around dawn in the Syracuse suburb of Dewitt, said Onondaga County Sheriff Tobias […]