The Latest: Cosby at courthouse, drug experts to testify

The prosecution's expert, Dr. Timothy Rohrig, testified at Cosby's last trial that wooziness and other effects chief accuser Andrea Constand described could have been caused by quaaludes or over-the-counter Benadryl. The Associated Press doesn't typically identify people who say they're victims of ...

10 Things to Know for Today, Apr. 19, 2018

The chief accuser at the comedian's sexual assault retrial talked about framing a celebrity before going to police with her allegations, a key defense witness testifies. 7 - MAKER OF BUMP STOCKS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. The announcement by industry leader Slide Fire comes after Trump said his ...

Ramadan admits to relationship with rape accuser

Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan has admitted he had relations with one of the five women who have accused him of rape. The woman involved is a 45-year-old French national and former escort who was also cited in the Lille Carlton case involving former French Socialist Party minister Dominique ...

Muncie brothers’ Facebrook fracas leads to broken nose

The man said both brothers tried to prevent him from fleeing from the apartment, with Sebastian Fields for a time placing him in a chokehold that “prevented him from breathing,” an officer wrote. He then managed to escape and called 911 from a neighbor's home, authorities said. The accuser's nose was ...

Metro Mass MD fired

The MD for the State Transport Company, Bennet Aboagye, has confirmed paying an amount of GH¢40,000 to his accuser, Lawal, the security coordinator of MMT, but stated that the amount was to trap his accuser to retrieve a supposed incriminating recording from him as advised by the police CID.

Accuser talked of framing Cosby, witness says

NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- The chief accuser at Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial talked about framing a celebrity before going to police with her allegations in 2005, a key defense witness testified Wednesday as the TV star's lawyers began presenting their case. Marguerite Jackson, an academic adviser at ...

Let the messenger beware

For a woman to take legal recourse against sexual harassment, meted out by a superior in a workplace or a college mate or even some random pest calling/texting her, she is submitting to an archaic legal/procedural process that has generally favoured denial by accusers or trivialises the complaint itself ...