TV News LIES

A former Kansas police detective accused of “the grossest acts of corruption a police officer can commit” has died shortly before federal prosecutors began trying charges against him.

Roger Golubski, 71, had been waiting trial on charges that he kidnapped and raped two women during the 1990s and early 2000s when he was found dead on Monday morning in his home.

Authorities discovered Golubski’s body after he failed to arrive for jury selection in his long-awaited trial in Topeka, Kansas, according to reporting from CNN and the Kansas City Star. Sources told the outlets that his death was believed to be a suicide.

Golubski was out on bond awaiting the trial when he was reportedly found dead on his back porch. He is accused of sexually assaulting vulnerable Black women over the course of multiple decades in a case with allegations that shocked the country.

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Police in Massachusetts are seeking to charge three teenagers in connection with an attack on a transgender boy in August.

The noise never stops,” says Karla Hart, her voice competing with the hum of approaching helicopters. “I can feel them before I see them.” She looks at her phone to check a website that monitors air traffic and identifies operators. Hart wants to know whether the pilots are adhering to legal flight routes.

A few minutes later, five helicopters, flying in formation, crisscross the grey October skies above Hart’s home in Juneau, Alaska’s capital. “I get groups of two to five helicopters flying over my house every 20 minutes. On any given day, that adds up to 50 to 75 flights. It’s impossible to enjoy my garden or concentrate on work.”

For Hart and other Juneau residents, the noise from helicopters shuttling cruise tourists to remote glaciers is one of the many reminders of how their lives are being upended by a city that has embraced industrial tourism.

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Mike Johnston, the mayor of Denver, joined a drumbeat of local leaders in left-leaning cities across the country earlier this month to say he’s willing to protest the incoming Trump administration’s expected mass deportation efforts.

He told local outlet Denverite that Denver police would be “stationed at the county line” to keep federal authorities out. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?” he said. He then walked back the comments about using local police, but still said he would protest deportations – even being willing to go to jail for it.

“I’m not afraid of that and I’m also not seeking that,” he told 9News.

Donald Trump’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, said that’s one area where he and Johnston agree. “He’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail,” Homan told Fox on Tuesday.

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On Thursday, Sandra Hemme plans to have Thanksgiving dinner with her family.

Unremarkable for many, but for Hemme — who spent four decades in a Missouri prison for a murder she did not commit — it’s anything but.

Monday was the deadline for Buchanan County Prosecutor Michelle Davidson to decide whether to retry Hemme after a judge found her innocent of the 1980 murder of Patricia Jeschke in St. Joseph, Missouri.

A federal judge found New York City in contempt on Wednesday over conditions in its city jails, saying things have only worsened in the nine years since the city settled accusations of abuse and violence.

The judge, Laura Taylor Swain, in Manhattan issued a written ruling finding the city in contempt over 18 separate contempt claims.

The ruling stemmed from litigation that began in 2012 with accusations by the Legal Aid Society and others that the city’s Department of Correction had engaged in a pattern of excessive and unnecessary force in city jails.

Despite a settlement and consent decree agreed to in October 2015, the judge says conditions have worsened over the last decade.

“The use of force rate and other rates of violence, self-harm, and deaths in custody are demonstrably worse than when the Consent Judgment went into effect,” she wrote.

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