Last year, a 72-year-old nun was reportedly raped during an attack at a convent school in West Bengal in India. The nation was shocked.
Recently, the main suspect was arrested.
On June 17th NDTV reported that Nazrul, a 28-year-old Bangladeshi national, was arrested at the Sealdah railway station when he was getting off a local train.
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A former pastor has been arrested after the case of a missing Florida woman was featured on a national “cold case” television show, according to gulflive.com.
Ty Flanders was arrested Thursday in Arizona on a second-degree murder charge related to the 2011 killing of Marie Carlson, according to Fox 10. Interestingly, Carlson was the mother of Flanders’ newborn child, states the report.
Carlson disappeared on Oct. 17th, 2011. According to authorities, text messages were sent from her phone to several people saying she was leaving town to “do something she had always wanted to do.” Her ex-husband reported her missing seven days later after he couldn’t contact her, writes gulflive.com.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who shocked conservatives nearly three years ago by providing a pivotal vote to uphold Obamacare, will again face a historic judicial decision, states CNN.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could decide whether gay and lesbian couples nationwide have the constitutional right to marry. The question at the core of the Obergefell v. Hodges case is very important, and is one that is already helping to shape the 2016 presidential race.
The average pro basketball player makes $24.7 million over his 4.8 year career, according to The USA Today.
The average pro football player makes $6.7 million over his 3.5 year career.
But the average college basketball or football player doesn’t even make $1. While they may receive full or partial academic scholarships, not a single college athlete is paid.
The NCAA, which regulates 23 sports at 1,200 schools across the US, has repeatedly argued student-athletes should not get salaries. They say this “undermines the purpose of college: an education.”
“Student-athletes are not employees, and their participation in college sports is voluntary.”
In their recent report, The Case For Paying College Athletes, economists Allen Sanderson and his co-author John Siegfried claim this system is not only unfair, but possibly illegal.
“Last year in March, the National Labor Relations Board decided Northwestern’s football players were primarily athletes, rather than students,” says Allen Sanderson, senior lecturer in economics at the University of Chicago and co-author of the article.
Northwestern players can now get employee medical benefits and unionize, according to USA Today.
Although it doesn’t matter whether they unionize or not, Sanderson says, “because the overriding principle is they fall under labor law, not ‘student law.’”
Northwestern is now appealing that decision. The economists feel that Northwestern will lose the case.
“They’re going lose, they know they’re going lose,” Sanderson says. “Can the NCAA survive [players being labeled as employees]? Yes. But it’s going to be messy.”
Sanderson and his co-author John Siegfried believe the NCAA might not survive the outcome of the Kessler case.
“The Kessler case is a lawsuit [filed by Jeffrey Kessler] against the NCAA, arguing that it is price-fixing when the NCAA sets the amount for the grant-in-aid, tuition, room and books [student-athletes receive],” Sanderson explains.
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Patricia Driscoll, who dated NASCAR driver Kurt Busch for years, requested a protective order against Busch last November, claiming domestic violence.
Testifying about the request for a protective order, Kurt Busch told a Delaware court this week that his former girlfriend is an assassin and therefore he could not have hurt her.
According to the BBC, Prince Andrew’s former wife Sarah Ferguson has said she cannot just stand by when “shockingly accusatory allegations” that he had sex with an underage teenager are being made.
Speaking on US TV, Ms. Ferguson referred to Buckingham Palace’s statement that the claims were “categorically untrue”. The prince was a “great father and humongously good man”, she added.
It was the second time she had come to his defense since the allegations became public this month.
A human rights group in Berlin, Germany, has filed a criminal complaint against the architects of the George W. Bush administration’s torture program. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has accused former Bush administration officials, including CIA Director George Tenet and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, of war crimes, and called for an immediate investigation by a German prosecutor.
Here is more info on Tamir Rice.
On November 24, Cleveland officials announced that a grand jury would hear the case of Tamir Rice. They will decide whether police officers Loehmann or Garmback will be charged with Rice’s death. Both officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave.
On December 5, Rice’s family filed a wrongful death claim against Loehmann, Garmback, and the city of Cleveland in the United States District Court Northern District of Ohio.
The eight-page claim accused Loehmann and Garmback of acting “unreasonably, negligently [and] recklessly” and that “[h]ad the defendant officers properly approached Tamir and properly investigated his possession of the replica gun they would undoubtedly have determined … that the gun was fake and that the subject was a juvenile”. It also accused the city of Cleveland for failing to properly train both officers, as well as failing to learn about the Independence city internal memo made of Loehmann.
Also, dozens of people showed up for a morning rally outside the Cudell Recreation Center Saturday morning in Cleveland to remember Tamir Rice. A contingent of residents from Ferguson, Missouri were also at the rally in Cleveland.
There were also protests in Columbus, Ohio, over the weekend.
David Pakman video.
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http://www.wtam.com/articles/wtam-local-news-122520/a-rally-for-tamir-rice-13085540/#ixzz3Me6dUiqa
Here are 5 pieces of evidence that the Ferguson grand jury saw, according to ABC News:
1) Police Car Damage
The police car’s driver-side window was shattered, and the driver-side mirror was bent towards the car, possibly indicating evidence of a fierce struggle between Wilson and Brown while the officer was still seated in his patrol car.
2) A Witness’ Journal Entry
A journal entry by someone police only identified as “Witness 44” said that Brown charged at Wilson, even after Wilson fired his gun. “The cop just stood there,” the entry read. “Dang if that kid didn’t start running right at the cop like a football player. Head down. I heard three bangs, but the big kid wouldn’t stop.”
3) Wilson’s Medical Examination
Wilson sustained bruising in the face, neck, and scalp areas after “he was hit in the face a couple of times,” according to a police report. Wilson also reported jaw pain, according to a medical examination report.
4) A DNA Analysis Report
A DNA analysis report revealed that Brown’s DNA was found inside Wilson’s car, on the officer’s shirt and pants, and the interior left front door handle.
Brown’s blood was also found on Wilson’s gun, according to the police investigation. That evidence appeared to support Wilson’s claim that Brown punched the officer while Wilson was seated in his car and reached in and struggled over Wilson’s gun. Wilson said he fired twice while in the car.
5) Wilson’s Interview
Wilson testified before the grand jury that he perceived Brown as a direct threat. “He looked up at me and had the most intense aggressive face, it looks like a demon, that’s how angry he looked,” Wilson told the panel.
A nurse’s release Tuesday from an Atlanta hospital leaves a single person in the United States now battling Ebola, though she and others — including President Barack Obama — stressed the fight against the deadly virus isn’t over.
“While this is a day for celebration and gratitude, I ask that we not lose focus on the thousands of families who continue to labor under the burden of this disease in West Africa,” said 29-year-old Amber Vinson.
Smiling broadly and occasionally brushing aside tears, Vinson was surrounded by relatives as well as Emory doctors and nurses.
Nurse Nina Pham from Dallas, who also had Ebola, was released Oct. 24 from a National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda, Md.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Kaci Hickox traveled from New Jersey to Maine, where her boyfriend is a senior nursing student at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Hickox, who spent the weekend in a quarantine tent in New Jersey, said she never had Ebola symptoms and tested negative in a preliminary evaluation. She also sharply criticized New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for ordering mandatory quarantines.
Hickox, told CNN that her “basic human rights have been violated,” and was released Monday, two days after testing negative for Ebola. She was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a quarantine tent in Newark.
The nurse’s treatment, as well as the quarantine policies of New York and New Jersey, have been criticized as heavy-handed.
Former Ebola patient Rick Sacra, a doctor infected in Liberia, likened the mandatory quarantine for returning health-care workers in New York and New Jersey to a “police state approach.”
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