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Ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI

Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, admits he lied to the FBI in January about two December phone calls he had with then Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

 
Freed O.J. Simpson will live in Las Vegas, official says

For the first time in nine years, O.J. Simpson is free. Although speculation raged about where the former football star would head next, a state official said Simpson would live in Las Vegas for now.

 
Metro seeks 2 men in fatal southwest valley shooting

Las Vegas police are looking for two “persons of interest” in connection with a fatal shooting in the southwest valley Thursday night.

 
Illinois cop was killed with his own gun, authorities say

A suburban Chicago police officer whose shooting death has confounded investigators for weeks was killed with his own service weapon, authorities said Thursday.

 
Man arrested for placing hidden camera in NLV bathroom

North Las Vegas police arrested a man they said put a hidden camera in the bathroom of a clothing store, the department said Tuesday night.

 
Former CCSD official receives prison term in theft case

A former Clark County School District official who admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the district will spend four to 10 years in prison and must pay back about $280,000.

 
Former House Speaker Hastert to appear in court on federal charges

Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert will appear in a Chicago court on Thursday to face federal charges related to his alleged effort to hide $3.5 million in payments he was making to conceal past misconduct.

 
Supreme Court throws out conviction against man who made Facebook threats

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Pennsylvania man who posted several violent messages on Facebook and was convicted under a federal threat statute — the first time the Court raised the implications of free speech on social media.

 
13th day of deliberation in Etan Patz case ends without decision

Jury deliberations ended a 13th day on Friday with no verdict in the trial of a former deli worker who confessed to the 1979 killing of Etan Patz, a New York City boy whose picture was among the first to appear on milk cartons in a U.S. campaign to locate missing children.