Laila Kearney
By Laila Kearney
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Fast Forward N.Y. Man Gets 25 Years To Life For 1979 Murder Of Etan Patz
A former delicatessen worker convicted of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in a 1979 New York slaying that helped raise national awareness about the plight of abducted children was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison. Pedro Hernandez, 56, showed no emotion as he was handed the maximum allowed sentence for the murder…
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Fast Forward Milo Yiannopoulos Quits Breitbart Over Sex With Boys Controversy
Firebrand commentator Milo Yiannopoulos quit the right-wing Breitbart News website amid a firestorm over comments that condoned sex between men and young teenage boys. Yiannopoulos, who lost a book deal and was dumped by a conservative conference, said he did not want his “poor choice of words” to hurt Breitbart. “This is my decision alone,”…
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Fast Forward Inauguration ‘Deploraball’ Split Over Anti-Semitic Donald Trump Backers in ‘Alt-Right’
President-elect Donald Trump’s backers have appropriated the phrase “basket of deplorables” – used by Hillary Clinton during the campaign to pillory some of his backers – to plan an inauguration party called the “Deploraball.” But the planned gathering has revealed a deep schism within the ranks of a movement known as the alt-right: pitting those…
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Fast Forward ‘Son of Sal’ Convicted in Murders of 2 Brooklyn Jewish Shopkeepers
A New York clothing salesman known as the “Son of Sal” serial killer was convicted on Wednesday of three counts of second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting deaths of three shopkeepers in Brooklyn, including two Jews. Salvatore Perrone, 67, faces a maximum prison sentence of 75 years to life for the killings of Mohamed Gebeli,…
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Food Katz’s Deli Wins Name Game Battle
(Reuters) — The New York City delicatessen Katz’s has won a legal battle to force a Florida restaurant to change its name, according to court documents made public on Monday. Katz’s Delicatessen, founded in 1888, sued Katz’s Deli of Deerfield Beach in June, claiming that the Florida restaurant had blatantly infringed on its trademark rights and…
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