An Independence woman who sued her former live-in boyfriend for trespassing, property damage and personal injuries after an alleged sexual assault was awarded nearly two-thirds of a million dollars by a Clay County judge.

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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers asked the judge in his New York City rape case to step aside Wednesday, a day after he threatened to jail the disgraced movie mogul for texting in the courtroom. Weinstein’s lawyers sent a letter to Judge ...

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More than two  years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that could him put him behind bars for the rest of ...

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More than two  years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that could him put him behind bars for the rest of ...

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A 39-year-old mentally disabled woman who was sexually assaulted by another resident of a group home settled her claim for $1.75 million, according to her attorney. Jill Kanatzar of Dollar Burns & Becker in Kansas City said the victim, who ...

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Defendant was convicted of the lesser-included charge of statutory rape. Defendant filed a motion for post-conviction relief, arguing that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object and request a mistrial following testimony that freezing defendant’s urine changed the results ...

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Defendant unsuccessfully moved to set aside his conviction for forcible rape and sodomy of three of his adopted children, arguing that trial and appellate counsel were ineffective for failing to call defendant’s older daughter as a witness, failing to object ...

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M. Keithley Williams will lead an effort to clear out a backlog of thousands of untested sexual assault kits, Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced at news conferences in Columbia and Kansas City. Williams, the treatment court administrator for the city ...

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U.S. Sen. Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer and later, when she tried to talk about it to military officials, she “felt like the ...

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U.S. Sen. Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer and later, when she tried to talk about it to military officials, she “felt like the ...

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After R. Kelly met a girl celebrating her 16th birthday at a restaurant, it was his manager who handed her Kelly’s business card with the R&B star’s personal phone number on it, telling the teen that Kelly wanted her to ...

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