A Texas Army veteran who was convicted of murdering a Black man in a racially motivated shooting in 2021 was sentenced last week to 40 years in prison but avoided a life term from the judge, which could set him free after serving half the time. Christopher Lee Powell, 36, of Killeen, was found guilty...
Former President Donald Trump spent about $50 million from Republican donors on legal bills in 2023 as he faced a panoply of criminal and civil charges, according to a report by The New York Times. Thus far in the 2024 primary, Trump’s Save America PAC, has spent about as much money on legal bills as...
Several staff members who serve under Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis reportedly have come forward in an ongoing Georgia Senate panel investigation into alleged financial misconduct by Atlanta’s top prosecutor amid an ongoing romance scandal. The state Special Committee on Investigations — comprised of six Republicans and three Democrats — is looking into whether...
The legal team for the family of a man shot to death by a Cobb County police officer during a traffic stop in 2021 is going after the county’s district attorney for failing to prosecute the cop behind the shooting. Attorneys for Devontae Brown’s family issued a statement accusing Cobb County District Attorney Flynn D....
After the University of Pennsylvania announced the reburial of the 19 Black people whose bones were used for racist scientific research, the community criticized officials at the Philadelphia school for their lack of involvement in the decision. Spearheaded by physician Samuel George Morton in the 1830s, The Associated Press reported that the remains linked his study to...