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US Girl Awarded $800,000 After She Was Severely Burned By McDonald's Chicken Nugget
After hearing the closing arguments, a jury decided to award $800,000 amount for the child's pain and suffering.
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US High School Shooter, Who Killed 17, Gets Life In Prison Without Parole
A US jury on Thursday rejected the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 people at his former Florida high school, opting instead for life imprisonment without the chance of parole.
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Tesla Shares Only 1 Percent Blame for Fatal Crash That Killed Two Teens, Rules Jury
Tesla was found just one percent negligent in a fiery crash that killed two teens, for disabling a speed limiter on the electric car, according to a Florida jury. The verdict placed 90 percent of the blame on the driver, Barrett Riley, and 9 percent on his father, James Riley, who brought the lawsuit against Tesla.
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A US Man Was Shot And Killed By Police. A Jury Gave His Family $4
Only three people know exactly what happened in the last seconds of Gregory Hill Jr.'s life: Hill and the two Florida sheriff's deputies who went to his home that day in 2014, one of whom killed him. Police said Hill pointed a gun at the deputies and ignored commands to drop it, forcing one of them to open fire. The gun would've fallen out of Hill'...
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US Jury Acquits Widow Of Florida Nightclub Gunman Who Killed 49
The widow of the Pulse nightclub gunman walked free on Friday after a jury cleared her of charges related to the 2016 massacre that killed 49 people in Orlando, Florida.
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19-Year-Old Florida School Shooting Suspect Nikolas Cruz Indicted On 17 Murder Counts
A Broward County, Florida, grand jury on Wednesday indicted Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old charged with the school shooting rampage last month, on 34 counts of premeditated murder and attempted murder.
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Florida Man Who Killed 3 Women Scheduled For Execution
Oscar Ray Bolin was first found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago. In the decades since, every one of the verdicts delivered by juries in three separate trials was reversed at least twice by appeals courts, although ultimately he was convicted again in each case: 10 times by 10 juries, to be exact.
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Florida 'Facebook Killer' Found Guilty of Second-Degree Murder
A jury on Wednesday found a Florida man guilty of second-degree murder after he killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered body on Facebook.
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Jury Weighs Murder Charges for Florida 'Facebook Killer'
A Florida jury began weighing on Tuesday whether a man who killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered, lifeless body on Facebook committed first-degree murder.
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Ferguson Continues to Experience Unrest Ahead Brown Shooting Hearing
Tensions continue to run high in the town of Ferguson, ahead of a grand jury hearing over the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer, in a case that has strained racial fault lines.
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US Man Who Shot Woman in Face Convicted of Murder
A jury convicted a US man of second-degree murder and manslaughter on Thursday after he shot a drunk, unarmed black woman in the face on his porch last year. It rejected his claim that he was afraid for his life and had acted in self-defence.
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Florida Man Guilty of Throwing Baby from Car Window
A jury has found a Florida man guilty of killing a 3-month-old boy by tossing the infant out of a moving vehicle.
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RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company Vows to Fight $23.6 Billion in Damages
The No. 2 US cigarette maker is vowing to fight a jury verdict of $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.
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Tobacco Firm Asked to Pay Whopping $23 Billion to Cancer Victim's Wife
A Florida state jury has ordered the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company to pay $23.6 billion in punitive damages to the wife of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer, attorneys said.
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'Justice for Trayvon' rallies set for 100 cities
One week after a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, people began to gather Saturday for nationwide rallies to press for federal civil rights charges against the former neighborhood watch leader.
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US Girl Awarded $800,000 After She Was Severely Burned By McDonald's Chicken Nugget
After hearing the closing arguments, a jury decided to award $800,000 amount for the child's pain and suffering.
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US High School Shooter, Who Killed 17, Gets Life In Prison Without Parole
A US jury on Thursday rejected the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 people at his former Florida high school, opting instead for life imprisonment without the chance of parole.
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Tesla Shares Only 1 Percent Blame for Fatal Crash That Killed Two Teens, Rules Jury
Tesla was found just one percent negligent in a fiery crash that killed two teens, for disabling a speed limiter on the electric car, according to a Florida jury. The verdict placed 90 percent of the blame on the driver, Barrett Riley, and 9 percent on his father, James Riley, who brought the lawsuit against Tesla.
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A US Man Was Shot And Killed By Police. A Jury Gave His Family $4
Only three people know exactly what happened in the last seconds of Gregory Hill Jr.'s life: Hill and the two Florida sheriff's deputies who went to his home that day in 2014, one of whom killed him. Police said Hill pointed a gun at the deputies and ignored commands to drop it, forcing one of them to open fire. The gun would've fallen out of Hill'...
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US Jury Acquits Widow Of Florida Nightclub Gunman Who Killed 49
The widow of the Pulse nightclub gunman walked free on Friday after a jury cleared her of charges related to the 2016 massacre that killed 49 people in Orlando, Florida.
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19-Year-Old Florida School Shooting Suspect Nikolas Cruz Indicted On 17 Murder Counts
A Broward County, Florida, grand jury on Wednesday indicted Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old charged with the school shooting rampage last month, on 34 counts of premeditated murder and attempted murder.
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Florida Man Who Killed 3 Women Scheduled For Execution
Oscar Ray Bolin was first found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago. In the decades since, every one of the verdicts delivered by juries in three separate trials was reversed at least twice by appeals courts, although ultimately he was convicted again in each case: 10 times by 10 juries, to be exact.
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Florida 'Facebook Killer' Found Guilty of Second-Degree Murder
A jury on Wednesday found a Florida man guilty of second-degree murder after he killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered body on Facebook.
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Jury Weighs Murder Charges for Florida 'Facebook Killer'
A Florida jury began weighing on Tuesday whether a man who killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered, lifeless body on Facebook committed first-degree murder.
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Ferguson Continues to Experience Unrest Ahead Brown Shooting Hearing
Tensions continue to run high in the town of Ferguson, ahead of a grand jury hearing over the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer, in a case that has strained racial fault lines.
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US Man Who Shot Woman in Face Convicted of Murder
A jury convicted a US man of second-degree murder and manslaughter on Thursday after he shot a drunk, unarmed black woman in the face on his porch last year. It rejected his claim that he was afraid for his life and had acted in self-defence.
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Florida Man Guilty of Throwing Baby from Car Window
A jury has found a Florida man guilty of killing a 3-month-old boy by tossing the infant out of a moving vehicle.
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RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company Vows to Fight $23.6 Billion in Damages
The No. 2 US cigarette maker is vowing to fight a jury verdict of $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.
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Tobacco Firm Asked to Pay Whopping $23 Billion to Cancer Victim's Wife
A Florida state jury has ordered the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company to pay $23.6 billion in punitive damages to the wife of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer, attorneys said.
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'Justice for Trayvon' rallies set for 100 cities
One week after a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, people began to gather Saturday for nationwide rallies to press for federal civil rights charges against the former neighborhood watch leader.
