Defendant talks his way into extra time

Defendant talks his way into extra time

CATLETTSBURG An Ashland man with a lengthy rap sheet probably won’t be making any more snide remarks to a sitting judge after receiving quick consequences on Thursday. After clearing up some confusion between two defendants with the same name, 41-year-old Jeffrey A. Hurn approached a podium at the Boyd County Detention Center livestreaming a feed…

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Mississippi executes Richard Jordan, state's longest-serving death row inmate, for 1976 murder

Mississippi executes Richard Jordan, state’s longest-serving death row inmate, for 1976 murder

The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death…

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'I don’t feel safe': No arrests yet in West End shooting; police, EMS response questioned at wide-ranging forum | News

‘I don’t feel safe’: No arrests yet in West End shooting; police, EMS response questioned at wide-ranging forum | News

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – The largest mass shooting in Johnstown’s recent history, during which four women were injured outside a nightclub early Sunday morning, has brought increased attention to public safety and race relations between the Black community and the Johnstown Police Department. Those were among the many subjects discussed during a public forum, organized by…

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'Savage' Philly man guilty of stabbing transgender fashion designer more than 40 times, dismembering her body

‘Savage’ Philly man guilty of stabbing transgender fashion designer more than 40 times, dismembering her body

A Pennsylvania man was convicted of stabbing a transgender fashion designer from Philadelphia more than 40 times, cutting off her legs and tossing her body into the Schuylkill River five years ago, prosecutors said this week. Akhenaton Jones, 41, faces a mandatory life sentence for the horrific murder and mutilation of Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, 27,…

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