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Jan 10, 2025 | 
msn.com | Erik Ortiz
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Erik Ortiz
The wind-driven wildfires burning out of control in the Los Angeles area couldn't have emerged at a more perilous moment for California's homeowners, as officials try to rehab what they concede is a deepening "insurance crisis." "We were all thinking 2025 is going to be the year insurers regain their appetite for the market in California, but having this catastrophe hit us right out of the gate is really unfortunate," said Amy Bach, the executive director of United Policyholders, a...
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
msn.com | Erik Ortiz |Shanshan Dong |Liz Kreutz |Irene Byon
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Erik Ortiz
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against lawmakers who used their subpoena power to halt the execution of a death row inmate for his daughter’s “shaken baby” death, paving the way for it to proceed. Robert Roberson, 58, was set to be questioned by the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, which issued a legislative subpoena last month for him to testify about his case — setting off a flurry of litigation that temporarily stopped his Oct. 17 execution with only hours to spare.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Erik Ortiz
A coalition of parents attempting to block a state law that would require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms by next year have won a legal battle in federal court. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles issued an order Tuesday granting the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction, which means the state can't begin its plan to promote and create rules surrounding the law as soon as Friday while the litigation plays out.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
odishaexpo.com | Odisha Expo |Erik Ortiz
Ballot drop boxes in Portland, Oregon, and neighboring Vancouver, Washington, were set on fire Monday morning in what authorities believe are connected incidents about a week out from Election Day. An identical Volvo was spotted at both scenes, and the use of an “incendiary device” in Portland was “similar in nature” to what occurred in Vancouver, the cities’ police departments said. Portland police described the act as targeted and intentional.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Erik Ortiz |Dan Slepian
A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers who used their legislative powers and the courts to stop an execution last week with only hours to spare has drawn public rebuke from state Attorney General Ken Paxton, stirring claims against his office on Thursday of "misrepresentation" in the death row inmate's case.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Erik Ortiz
Richard Allen was armed with a gun when he came across teenage friends Abigail "Abby" Williams and Liberty "Libby" German near a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, in February 2017, then used "power and the fear" to force them "down the hill" before slitting their throats, prosecutors said in their opening statement Friday in his double murder trial.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Dan Slepian |Erik Ortiz |Kim Cornett
Dan Slepian and Erik Ortiz and Kim CornettOctober 16, 2024 at 4:52 PM·5 min readA Texas board on Wednesday rejected recommending clemency for a condemned man who would be the first in the nation to be executed for a case of “shaken baby syndrome.”Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday after losing a string of appeals, including on Tuesday when a district court judge declined to vacate his execution warrant.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Chloe Melas |Erik Ortiz
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