Jason Riley
Courts and Criminal Justice Reporter at WDRB-TV (Louisville, KY)
From The Ville. https://t.co/zKbHKib2oN criminal justice reporter. The Courier-Journal alum. Email: [email protected]. Blockbuster Video employee of the month Dec. 1996.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Jason Riley
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WDRB) -- In damning jail phone calls played Thursday for jurors in the Steve Lawson trial, his mother and another person repeatedly criticized him for his role in the disappearance of Crystal Rogers. While Lawson repeatedly said he didn't have anything to do with her 2015 murder and didn't know where her body was, he did admit he knew Brooks Houck — Roger's boyfriend — had talked about killing her.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Jason Riley
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WDRB) -- On the second day of Steve Lawson's trial in the 2015 murder of Crystal Rogers, perhaps the most surprising moment had nothing to do with Lawson. After defense attorneys criticized the investigation into Lawson, saying other suspects were ignored, special prosecutor Shane Young loudly informed the jury there are two other suspects: the mother and brother of Rogers' former boyfriend, Brooks Houck. "We believe them to be involved," Young said of Rosemary and Nick Houck.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Jason Riley |Hayden Ristevski
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WDRB) -- The trial for one of three men charged in the 2015 murder of Crystal Rogers began Tuesday afternoon with both prosecutors and the defense agreeing on one thing. They both said Steve Lawson is guilty of tampering with physical evidence, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
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1 week ago |
manhattan.institute | Jason Riley
His actions against foreign students and research grants have little to do with students’ civil rights. Donald Trump has made the Harvard man his whipping boy, and academia certainly had it coming. Still, what is the president’s objective? The administration announced Tuesday that it is seeking to cancel all remaining federal contracts with the school, which are worth an estimated $100 million. That’s on top of the billions of dollars in grants to Harvard that Mr. Trump has already frozen.
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2 weeks ago |
wdrb.com | Jason Riley
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A federal judge on Friday didn't immediately dismiss a sweeping police reform agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Metro Government, as the Trump administration has requested, but indicated he would likely do so soon.
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Gov. Andy Beshear said the University of Louisville’s president should be hired after a national search – a process that wasn’t followed when U of L trustees named a new top executive this week. via @MarcusGreenWDRB https://t.co/6GogqdwxLn