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Executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate plans to fight payout to the families of Brown and Goldman

13Apr

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Executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate plans to fight payout to the families of Brown and Goldman

LAS VEGAS -- The executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate says he will work to prevent a payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded by a California civil jury nearly three decades ago in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson’s will was filed Friday in a Clark County court in Nevada, naming his longtime lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, as the executor. The document shows Simpson’s property was placed into a trust that was created this year.LaVergne told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the entirety of Simpson’s estate has not been tallied. Under Nevada law, an estate must go through the courts if its assets exceed $20,000. Simpson died Wednesday without having paid the lion’s share of the civil judgment that was awar...

O.J. Simpson, legendary football player and actor brought down by his murder trial, dies at 76

11Apr

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O.J. Simpson, legendary football player and actor brought down by his murder trial, dies at 76

LAS VEGAS -- LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend in a trial that mesmerized the public and exposed divisions on race and policing in America, has died. He was 76. The family announced on Simpson's official X account that he died Wednesday of prostate cancer. He died in Las Vegas, officials there said Thursday.Simpson earned fame, fortune and adulation through and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 knife slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. He was later found liable for the deaths in a separate civil case, and then served nine years in prison on unrelated charges.Goldman’s father, Fred, and his sister, Kim, released ...

Family hopeful after FBI exhumes body from unsolved 1969 killing featured in Netflix’s ‘The Keepers’

15Dec

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Family hopeful after FBI exhumes body from unsolved 1969 killing featured in Netflix’s ‘The Keepers’

CENTREVILLE, Md. -- Darryl Malecki’s last memory of his older sister is a routine interaction between siblings: A teenager at the time, he was working at a fast food restaurant outside Baltimore when she stopped by to switch cars before heading to the mall.Joyce Malecki, 20, never returned home. Her body was found on a nearby military base with signs of severe trauma. An autopsy determined she had been strangled to death.More than a half-century later, the case remains unsolved. But the Malecki family received a spark of hope this week when FBI investigators exhumed Joyce Malecki’s body as they continue working to identify her killer.The case has been a subject of widespread speculation, especially since Netflix’s documentary series “The Keepers” examined the slaying of a Baltimore nun th...

FBI to exhume woman’s body from unsolved 1969 killing in Netflix’s ‘The Keepers’

13Dec

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FBI to exhume woman’s body from unsolved 1969 killing in Netflix’s ‘The Keepers’

BALTIMORE -- FBI investigators are planning to exhume the body of a young woman whose unsolved 1969 killing has been a source of widespread speculation, especially since Netflix’s documentary series “The Keepers” examined the slaying of a Baltimore nun that unfolded days earlier under eerily similar circumstances.Joyce Malecki went Christmas shopping in November 1969 at a suburban mall outside Baltimore and never came home. Her body was found on a nearby military base days later and an autopsy determined she had been strangled.An advocate for the Malecki family confirmed Tuesday that the exhumation was tentatively planned for Thursday. The case received renewed attention after “The Keepers” was released in 2017, raising questions about whether Malecki’s disappearance was linked to that of...

Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women

24Nov

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Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women

ROME -- After the latest, horrifying killing of a college student allegedly by her resentful and jealous ex-boyfriend, students from Turin to Palermo have taken to pounding on classroom desks in unison to demand a stop to the slaying of women in Italy at the hands of men.Just days before the killing of 22-year-old Giulia Cecchettin, Italians were already applauding a blockbuster movie about a woman who endures beatings and belittling by her overbearing husband. The movie is set in 1946, 24 years before divorce became legal in Italy and on the eve of the first time Italian women were allowed to vote. The film's exploration of the suffocating role of patriarchy in Italian society is painfully resonating today.The moment is a remarkable confluence of fact and fiction, driving demands across ...

Tupac Shakur has an Oakland street named for him 27 years after his death

4Nov

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Tupac Shakur has an Oakland street named for him 27 years after his death

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A stretch of street in Oakland, California, was renamed Friday for Tupac Shakur, 27 years after the killing of the hip-hop luminary. A section of MacArthur Boulevard near where he lived in the 1990s became Tupac Shakur Way, following a ceremony that included his family members and Oakland native MC Hammer. “Let his spirit live on the rest of these years in these streets and in your hearts,” Shakur's sister Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur told the crowd, wiping away tears at the end of a nearly two-hour ceremony. The sign for Tupac Shakur Way was unveiled moments later. MC Hammer, the “U Can't Touch This” rapper who spent many of Shakur's final months with him before his 1996 shooting death at age 25, said in his remarks that Shakur was, “hands down, the greatest rapper ever, there...

Man charged with killing Tupac Shakur in Vegas faces murder arraignment without hiring an attorney

2Nov

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Man charged with killing Tupac Shakur in Vegas faces murder arraignment without hiring an attorney

The former street gang leader charged with leading the drive-by killing of Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas is expected to plead not guilty to murderByKEN RITTER Associated PressNovember 2, 2023, 12:05 AMDuane "Keffe D" Davis walks out after a court apperance Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in Las Vegas. Davis has been charged with killing Tupac Shakur in 1996. (AP Photo/John Locher, Pool)The Associated PressLAS VEGAS -- The former street gang leader charged with orchestrating the 1996 drive-by killing of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is expected to plead not guilty Thursday to murder, amid questions of whether he'll hire a defense lawyer or a judge appoints a public defender.Duane Keith "Keffe D” Davis, who is described as the only person still alive who was in the vehicle from which shots were fi...

Defendant in Tupac Shakur killing loses defense lawyer ahead of arraignment on murder charge

1Nov

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Defendant in Tupac Shakur killing loses defense lawyer ahead of arraignment on murder charge

LAS VEGAS -- The former Southern California street gang leader charged with killing Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas has lost his bid to be represented at his arraignment by the lawyer who spoke publicly about his defense two weeks ago.Attorney Ross Goodman told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis could not meet terms of an agreement that a judge on Oct. 19 gave them two more weeks to reach. Goodman did not specify a reason for the impasse.Davis is due for arraignment Thursday, and Clark County District Court Judge Tierra Jones could order a financial accounting of Davis' assets to determine if he can afford a lawyer or if she should declare him indigent and name an attorney to defend him at public expense.Scott Coffee, a deputy Clark County public defender...

DOJ Launches Hate Crime Probe Into Killing Of Muslim Boy

16Oct

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DOJ Launches Hate Crime Probe Into Killing Of Muslim Boy

The Justice Department has launched a hate crime investigation into the brutal killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and the serious wounding of his mother in Illinois over the weekend.Local police arrested a white man who was the Muslim family’s landlord on murder and hate crime charges related to the stabbing of Wadea Al-Fayoume and his 32-year-old mother, Hanaan Shahin, in their home in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield on Saturday.The landlord, 71-year-old Joseph Czuba, is accused of stabbing Wadea 26 times. Czuba also allegedly stabbed Shahin over a dozen times, and officials have said that she is in serious condition but expected to survive.Text messages Shahin reportedly sent from the hospital to her son’s father described Czuba as having shouted, “You Muslims must die!” ...

`The Laramie Project’ stages a special reading in Wyoming on the 25th anniversary of Shepard murder

12Oct

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`The Laramie Project’ stages a special reading in Wyoming on the 25th anniversary of Shepard murder

NEW YORK -- It has been 25 years since the body of Matthew Shepard was discovered in Laramie, Wyoming. The gay college student had been tied to a fence post, tortured and left to die.The murder drew national attention to violence against gay people, and attracted the interest of theater director Moisés Kaufman, who turned the horror into art with “The Laramie Project.”This 25th anniversary has triggered deep sadness for Kaufman, founder and artistic director of the New York-based Tectonic Theater Project. He wonders about all the things Shepard could have become.“Every year around this time, it’s painful to remember, but this one has hit particularly hard,” Kaufman tells the AP. After Shepard's 1998 killing, Kaufman and members of Tectonic traveled to Laramie and wrote the play based on m...