Dec 30
LOS ANGELES COUNTY — Arrests for suspected drunken driving were up slightly over the previous year this holiday season county-wide, officials said, though checkpoints held Friday in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier area saw few intoxicated drivers.Throughout Los Angeles County, police, sheriff’s and California Highway Patrol officials jailed 2,433 people on suspicion of driving under the influence since Dec. 16, Avoid the 100 Task Force officials said Tuesday in a written statement. Read all post…
Dec 17
RALEIGH Condemning the role of money in elections, a Wake County judge on Wednesday banned Gov. Bev Perdue’s former fundraiser from the political world for two years and ordered him to pay a $25,000 fine.
Peter Reichard, 54, pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstruction of justice for his role in concealing an alleged scheme to funnel $32,000 from a wealthy Perdue donor through his Chapel Hill investment bank to a campaign aide.
Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens called Reichard’s actions “sheer foolishness.”
Ignoring campaign finance laws creates “an absolutely uncontrolled free-for-all in which honesty and truth and fairness is completely vanquished, where money talks and where money frequently tries to buy elections,” the judge said in issuing his ruling.
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Dec 14
Story by staff writers Emily Kulkus and John O’Brien
Syracuse, N.Y. — A fourth man has told police that former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine sexually abused him as a child, beginning 4 years ago.
Floyd VanHooser, who celebrated his 56th birthday Tuesday behind the walls of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, says Fine began sexually abusing him when VanHooser was 14 years old, in 1969.
The Syracuse man, who is serving 16 years to life for repeatedly burglarizing homes in Central New York, told The Post-Standard Wednesday in an hour-long prison interview that the fired SU coach took him in as an orphan and sexually abused him.
VanHooser17s parents both died before he was 13 years old.
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Dec 13
Semiretired professional wrestler Hulk Hogan is suing his ex-wife for defamation, claiming she has falsely accused him of physically abusing her and of having homosexual encounters.
Hogan’s suit, filed Thursday in a Florida court, says ex-wife Linda Bollea’s false claims have harmed his reputation, exposed him to distrust, hatred, contempt and ridicule, and hurt his occupation and business, the St.
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Dec 11
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says he is being factually accurate when he calls the Palestinians an “invented” people and says they are the creation of anti-Israel propaganda.
Gingrich’s chief rival for the presidential nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. M
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