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MIT to caption online videos after discrimination lawsuit

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER | February 18, 2020

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has agreed to provide captions for more of its publicly available online videos as part of a settlement announced Tuesday in a case that accused the school of discriminating against people who...

UK PM Johnson and estranged wife reach financial settlement

February 18, 2020

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his estranged wife Marina Wheeler have reached a financial agreement for their divorce, court records showed Tuesday.Lawyers for Johnson and Wheeler attended a brief private hearing at the Central...

Daughter of man accused of killing 8 describes his abuse

February 17, 2020

MAGNOLIA, Miss. (AP) — The daughter of a Mississippi man on trial in the shooting deaths of eight people testified Monday that he was abusive and beat her frequently.My'Khyiah Godbolt took the stand at a courthouse in Magnolia, the Daily Leader newspaper...

Eccentric millionaire Durst faces trial in friend’s killing

By BRIAN MELLEY | February 17, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — There is almost no physical evidence connecting New York real estate heir Robert Durst to the slaying of his best friend in Los Angeles 20 years ago.What does link him to the killing of Susan Berman, though, is a cryptic note sent...

Priests of disgraced Legion face trial for obstruction claim

By NICOLE WINFIELD and MARIA VERZA | February 17, 2020

MILAN (AP) — The Vatican effort to reform the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order is coming under new scrutiny, with four Legion priests and a Legion lawyer due to stand trial on charges they tried to obstruct justice and extort the family of...

Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie

By NICOLE WINFIELD and MARÍA VERZA | February 17, 2020

MILAN (AP) — The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected — or could abide.Her son had been sexually abused by a priest of the Legion of Christ, a disgraced religious order. And now she was calling Cardinal Valasio De Paolis...

Televangelist, ex-pastor settle lawsuit alleging sex abuse

February 17, 2020

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A confidential settlement was reached in a former Ohio megachurch pastor's lawsuit alleging televangelist Ernest Angley sexually abused and harassed him over a decade, starting in 2004.The allegations by Brock Miller, of Myrtle Beach,...

Popular Rwandan gospel musician found dead in police cell

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA | February 17, 2020

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A popular Rwandan gospel musician who in 2015 was found guilty of conspiracy to murder or harm President Paul Kagame was found dead in a police cell Monday in the capital, Kigali, authorities said.Kizito Mihigo, 38, an ethnic Tutsi...

Quarantine ruling: Russia sends woman back after she escapes

By DARIA LITVINOVA | February 17, 2020

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday ordered a woman who escaped from a virus quarantine to return back to the hospital she fled and stay under quarantine for at least two more days. The ruling underlined the chaotic public health approaches being...

All too aware of clergy abuse, seminarians keep the faith

By MATT SEDENSKY | February 16, 2020

WYNNEWOOD, Pa. (AP) — The seminarians walk along a hallway lined with photos of classes of priests who came before them. Some are pious alumni who have become their teachers and mentors; others climbed the Catholic hierarchy to be revered as bishops...

Illinois man, 80, set for release in 1960 triple-killing

February 16, 2020

CHICAGO (AP) — An 80-year-old man is set to be released from an Illinois prison this week, nearly six decades after he was sentenced to life for the killing of one of three suburban Chicago women whose brutalized bodies were found in a state park.Chester...

Stop and frisk gets renewed attention in Bloomberg candidacy

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JENNIFER PELTZ | February 16, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — David Ourlicht was a college student, walking down a street near campus, when he became one of millions of New Yorkers swept up in the era of stop and frisk.A police officer accosted Ourlicht, deeming suspicious a bulge in his jacket....