Day: February 16, 2024

NJ school district to pay out $6M to settle sex abuse case

11:54 pm February 16, 2024

A southern New Jersey school district will pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by two students who claim they were sexually assaulted for years by a former high school teacher. The male students had filed separate lawsuits weeks apart alleging they were assaulted by Nicholas Zaccaria, a social studies and history teacher at […]

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Tiger Woods withdraws from Genesis Invitational; ambulance arrives at golf course

11:09 pm February 16, 2024

Tiger Woods’ return to the PGA Tour was short-lived and scary. The 48-year-old was back on the course Thursday for an official event for the first time since the Masters in April. On Friday, though, he called it quits. Woods was playing at the Genesis Invitational, a tournament he hosts, at Rivieria, but withdrew during […]

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Trump’s penalty could cause NY biz exodus to FL, as New York State becomes ‘legal banana republic’: experts

11:07 pm February 16, 2024

Legal experts analyzed what they called “breathtaking” civil penalties against former President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, former Trump Organization Comptroller Jeffrey McConney and ex-CFO Allen Weisselberg – warning other corporations based in the Empire State may realize they could suddenly be put out of business by the state on a political whim. […]

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Top UN court rejects South African request for urgent measures to safeguard Rafah

11:01 pm February 16, 2024

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top UN court on Friday rejected a South African request to impose urgent measures to safeguard Rafah in the Gaza Strip, but also stressed that Israel must respect earlier measures imposed late last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case. The International Court of Justice said […]

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Pennsylvania magistrate judge charged with shooting estranged boyfriend in head

10:51 pm February 16, 2024

A suspended magistrate judge in Pennsylvania shot her estranged boyfriend in the head as he slept last weekend, police said Thursday in filing attempted murder and aggravated assault charges against her. Tests showed Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight, 57, had gunshot residue on her hands an hour after Michael McCoy was shot in the […]

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