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(The Center Square) - A bipartisan coalition of California lawmakers has introduced a bill to strengthen penalties, including potential felonies, for purchasing sex from 16- and 17-year-old children. The legislation also would make loitering to purchase prostitution a misdemeanor with a $1,000 fine.
Trenton lawmakers continue stalling on four bills the New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission supports to cut the prison population.
BOSTON — Andrea James, an advocate for incarcerated and formerly imprisoned women and girls, filed paperwork Monday to run for governor in 2026 as a Democrat, creating a potential matchup with Gov. Maura Healey, according to campaign finance records. James is the founder and executive director of The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. A formerly ...
NEW YORK — A former “Jeopardy” winner and math teacher at a posh Brooklyn private school pleaded guilty Monday in exchange for a seven-year sentence to charges he posed as a teen and enticed students to send him nudes on social media. The elite St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights first hired Winston Nguyen, 38, in August 2020 to fill a “classroom assistant” role handling COVID-related remote ...
NEW YORK — Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has responded to Adrien Brody’s Oscars acceptance speech from behind bars. Brody on Sunday took the Academy stage to accept the award for his leading role in “The Brutalist,” and during his speech thanked the two children Weinstein shares with his ex-wife and Brody’s current partner, Georgina Chapman. “I share this with my amazing partner, ...
ATLANTA — A handful of senior employees in Atlanta’s Office of the Inspector General on Monday sent a five-page letter to federal and state authorities, along with city officials, referring eight criminal investigations launched by the government watchdog office in 2023 and 2024. The OIG staff all requested whistleblower protections against any retaliation caused by the letter, and cited ...
NEW YORK — Jay-Z has filed a defamation lawsuit against his Jane Doe rape accuser and her attorneys Tony Buzbee and David Fortney, claiming the woman had admitted her sexual assault allegations were false. The rapper said he has lost $20 million in contracts and suffered extreme “mental anguish” since the woman accused him in December of assaulting her alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was ...
LOS ANGELES — Two days after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, California state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León canceled a flight to Germany and called his executive staff for a meeting. They began to dissect the myriad ways Trump could "seriously hurt Californians" through policies and actions on the environment, freedom of choice and immigration. The framework for landmark ...
Dating violence in teens and young adults is more common than you may think where approximately 1 in 3 teens will experience physical, sexual,…