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Shocking Vote by Oklahoma Parole Board Clears the Way for Richard Glossip’s Execution

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

Three weeks ago, Richard Glossip was contemplating a possible future outside prison walls. In an extraordinary move, the Oklahoma attorney general had filed a motion with the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals asking that Glossip’s conviction and death sentence be overturned. If granted, the request would send his case back to the district court for a new trial — or a plea deal. After more than two decades in prison for a crime he insists he did not commit, Glossip was imagining life with his wife in Oklahoma City.But in a stunning rebuke, the court rejected the attorney general’s request, triggering the 35-day protocol that precedes an execution. Perhaps most critical: a hearing on April 26 before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, whose members are empowered to recommend clemency to the governor, serving as a final check against a wrongful execution.There was every reason to expect the board would vote to spare Glossip’s life. Among the witnesses who appeared on Glossip’s behalf...

Barcelona into 3rd straight Women’s Champions League final

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona reached its third straight Women’s Champions League final after a 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Thursday in front of more than 72,000 fans at Camp Nou Stadium.The Catalan club advanced 2-1 on aggregate after having won the semifinal first leg 1-0 in London on Saturday.Barcelona lost last year’s final to Lyon, but the previous year it beat Chelsea for its first continental title.Barcelona will face either Arsenal or Wolfsburg, whose second leg is Monday in London after a 2-2 draw in Germany over the weekend.The final will be on June 3 in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.Caroline Graham Hansen, who scored Barcelona’s winner in the first leg, put the Catalan club ahead at Camp Nou in a breakaway the 63rd minute. Chelsea equalized with Guro Reiten in the 67th.Two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas was back in Barcelona’s squad but stayed on the bench the whole match. She was sidelined for about nine months after tearing her ACL last July._...

Strahm strong, Clemens’ single lifts Phillies to 1-0 win

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kody Clemens ripped an RBI single to right, Matt Strahm pitched scoreless ball into the sixth inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies moved to .500 for the first time this season with a 1-0 win over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday.The NL champion Phillies took the final two games of the three-game set with the Mariners. Strahm (2-2) and four relievers helped get the Phillies to 13-13 as they head out for a six-game road trip. The Phillies started 0-4 and 5-10 but have won eight of 11 to straighten out their season.Craig Kimbrel worked a scoreless ninth for his third save and 397th of his career, putting him on the brink of becoming the seventh reliever to ever record 400.Signed as a free agent to fortify the bullpen, Strahm only made the starting rotation because of injuries to Ranger Suárez and top prospect Andrew Painter. Strahm made as many as 16 starts with San Diego in 2019 but made all 50 appearances out of the bullpen last season with Boston.He pitched an i...

Leonard has meniscus tear, will be ready for next season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers superstar Kawhi Leonard has a meniscus tear in his right knee, although his surgically repaired right ACL is intact.The team had said Leonard sustained a right knee sprain after playing in the first two games of the Clippers’ first-round loss to Phoenix, but didn’t provide further details. He had an MRI in Los Angeles after Game 2, which showed the tear, according to Lawrence Frank, president of basketball operations.“Regardless of the treatment, Kawhi will be ready for next year,” Frank said Thursday. The team has yet to decide on a course of treatment, he said. Rest or surgery are among the wide range of treatments for the common knee injury.Leonard missed all of last season while recovering from ACL surgery. Frank said his ACL is “firmly intact.”The Clippers were eliminated in five games against the Suns.Paul George wasn’t able to play in the series because of a right knee sprain he suffered on March 21. If the Clippers had adva...

Illinois man gets 40-year sentence for killing teenage boy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a 14-year-old boy and dumping his body in a roadside ditch.A judge sentenced Daryl Vandyke, 57, on Wednesday after the of Champaign man admitted that he used an ax or other sharp-edged garden tool to kill Steven Butler III, 14, in July 2021.Vandyke pleaded guilty to a single count of first-degree murder, WCCU-TV reported. In exchange, several other first-degree murder counts and other charges were dismissed.Vandyke’s plea agreement spared him a possible sentence of life in prison without parole. But he must serve the entire 40-year sentence, meaning he won’t be eligible for parole until age 95, The (Champaign) News-Gazette reported.Butler’s father reported him missing to police on the night of July 29, 2021, hours after he left the family home, purportedly to mow a lawn. His body was found by two cyclists the next day in a roadside ditch near Urbana.Troy Lozar, ...

Latest push to revive Equal Rights Amendment fails in Senate

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic measure to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, dealing yet another blow to supporters who have pushed for more than five decades to amend the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sex.Democrats failed to win the necessary 60 votes to move forward with the resolution, which would have removed a 1982 deadline for state ratification and reopened the process to amend the Constitution. The 51-47 vote included support from two Republicans, Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski — well short of the 10 GOP votes needed. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., put the resolution up for a vote this week, even as it was unlikely to pass. He said it was especially timely in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to an abortion.“Women in America have far fewer rights today than they did even a year ago,” Schumer said.After the vot...

Man accused of selling woman deadly fentanyl arrested

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- The man who allegedly sold a woman drugs that resulted in her death has been arrested, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.Rodolfo “Rudy” Dominguez, 56, of Evans, is facing charges of unlawful distribution of fentanyl resulting in death and unlawful distribution of cocaine and oxycodone. A woman was found dead in her home by a relative on Nov. 11, 2022, in the 5900 block of Palmer Court. The sheriff's office said crime scene investigators found "multiple substances, later determined to be user amounts of fentanyl pills and cocaine." Police searching for car allegedly involved in deadly shooting from Jan. 2022 The investigation identified Dominguez as the person who sold the woman the drugs, possibly as oxycodone. The drugs we actually counterfeit, LCSO said. “While new legislation created consequences for people who sell fatal fentanyl, these are extremely difficult cases to investigate. Our investigators spent months fact-finding and ...

Man accused of vandalizing cars at auto parts shop in Hialeah faces judge

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

A man accused of vandalizing several cars in Hialeah faced a judge, Thursday, According to police, the whole crime was captured on surveillance video. Thirty-five year-old Reynaldo Porras was arrested and charged with causing more than $1,800 in damages to cars at a local auto parts shop earlier in April. He is still behind bars with a $5,000 bond.

Brian Walshe denied bail after prosecutor says he stood to gain $2.7 million in life insurance for the death of Ana Walshe

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

(CNN) — A Massachusetts father accused of killing and dismembering his wife was denied bail Thursday, almost five months after she disappeared.But the whereabouts of Ana Walshe’s body remain a mystery.Brian Walshe, 48, shook his head as his murder charge was read aloud in Norfolk Superior Court. He pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder, misleading police and improper conveyance of a human body.In Massachusetts, a first-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.Shortly after Walshe pleaded not guilty, Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Greg Connor outlined a spate of new details from the investigation.Among them: “Ana Walshe had taken out approximately $2.2 million in life insurance on herself, where Brian Walshe is the sole beneficiary,” Connor said. She also had a life insurance policy through her employer, the prosecutor said.“In total, her life insurance is over $2.7 million, wher...

Investigators rule explosions in Weare, NH were not targeted

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:45 GMT

Investigators ruled Thursday that two explosions in Weare, New Hampshire were not targeted. Instead, investigators said the items that exploded may have simply been tossed on the side of the road.Hours after one person was injured in one of the blasts Thursday morning, officials are now asking for the public’s help in their investigation, asking anyone with surveillance video potentially related to these incidents to reach out.A spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives previously said federal, state and local authorities were called to the Hillsborough County town near Concord and Manchester for the apparent explosions.The official said one of the explosions took place Wednesday evening at 6:10 p.m. in the area of Dustin Tavern Road, with no injuries reported.The second happened Thursday morning at 6:50 a.m. off Sugar Hill Road and injured a passerby. Officials said the passerby suffered a minor cut to his head after his car windshield shattered....