A Kansas City man who spent 43 years in jail for three murders has been released from prison after a judge ruled he was wrongfully convicted. Kevin Strickland, now 62, has always maintained he was home watching television when Larry Ingram, 21, John Walker, 20, and Sherrie Black, 22, were killed. However, he was convicted
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A rape conviction at the centre of an award-winning memoir by Alice Sebold has been overturned amid concerns the wrong person was sent to jail in 1982. Anthony Broadwater, who spent 16 years in prison, sobbed as he was cleared by a judge of raping Sebold when she was a student – an assault she
Tesla is now asking owners getting into the Full Self-Driving Beta program to accept that Tesla can use footage from both inside and outside the car in case of a safety risk or accident. It’s the first time that Tesla will attach footage to specific individuals. For years now, Tesla has been using footage from
In this article GE SGRE-ES HOL.N-CH GS VOW3-DE A wind turbine blade manufactured by LM Wind Power arrives at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult in Blyth, England, on August 15, 2019. Tom White | Getty Images News | Getty Images GE’s renewable energy unit said Tuesday it would manufacture zero waste wind turbine blades by
In this article AAPL Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address during the 2020 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. Brooks Kraft/Apple Inc/Handout via Reuters Apple on Tuesday sued NSO Group, an Israeli firm that sells software to government agencies and law enforcement that allows them to hack
7:08 AM ET There’s just one week of the regular season remaining before Championship Week, but there’s still plenty left at stake in college football. Nine conference championship slots will be determined in games this week, including winner-take-all contests in the Big Ten East (Ohio State at Michigan), Conference USA East (Western Kentucky at Marshall)
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Several hundred Google employees have signed and circulated a manifesto opposing the company’s vaccine mandate, posing the latest challenge for leadership as it approaches key deadlines for returning workers to offices in person. The Biden administration has ordered U.S. companies with 100 or
A man has appeared in court charged with multiple homicides after a car plowed into a Christmas parade in the US – as a child became the sixth person to die after the incident. Darrell Brooks, 39, cried and rocked back and forth with his face in his hands as charges were laid against him.
Professional football club-owners in England will be overseen by a new licensing regime forcing them to demonstrate fully-funded three-year business plans under proposals to be set out by a former sports minister this week. Sky News has learnt that a review of football’s governance led by Tracey Crouch, the Conservative MP, will outline the new
After winning an Oscar earlier this year, Jon Batiste now leads the nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards – with Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, H.E.R and Doja Cat also in the running for several prizes. Batiste’s nominations span several genres, including R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video-film, and he is
Police searching for an 18-year-old who has been missing for three days have found a body, and two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Teenager Bobbi-Anne McLeod left her home in the Leigham area of Plymouth at about 6pm on Saturday evening. She had been due to catch a bus into the city
After winning an Oscar earlier this year, Jon Batiste now leads the nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards – with Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, H.E.R and Doja Cat also in the running for several prizes. Batiste’s nominations span several genres, including R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video-film, and he is
Boris Johnson has appeared to step back from a manifesto commitment on social care, after a controversial change to his government’s reforms to the system in England were narrowly backed by MPs. The prime minister committed in the 2019 Conservative Party manifesto that “nobody needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay
A man convicted of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007 has been freed early from jail. Rudy Guede served about 13 years of a 16-year sentence, said his lawyer, Fabrizio Ballarini. He was convicted in 2008 and had been due to be freed on 4 January next year, but a
6:30 AM ET NFL NationESPN It’s Feast Week for the NFL Power Rankings, as Thanksgiving is upon us. Along with being a national holiday, Thanksgiving is also a celebration of football, as three games will be on the docket Thursday (Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions, 12:30 p.m. ET, Fox; Las Vegas Raiders at Dallas Cowboys,
It’s been two years since this government was elected with a mandate to level up the left-behind parts of the UK. Now that the first round of the Levelling-Up Fund has been allocated, we can start to judge whether it will achieve what Boris Johnson set out to do. But while much has been made
A spacecraft has been launched from California this morning carrying with it humanity’s greatest hopes of being able to protect our planet from a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Fortunately the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission is only a test, and if anything goes wrong before it intercepts its target next September, then Earth won’t suffer
Former Wells Fargo bankers tell CNNMoney’s Cristina Alesci how they tricked customers and opened fraudulent accounts.
Based on the latest tally, Tesla has a backlog of over 1.2 million Cybertruck reservations worth over $80 billion. But there’s still no production in sight. Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck almost 2 years ago to the day. The electric pickup truck was supposed to be in production already, but the automaker delayed the program as
Voters in the U.S. are “pissed” about inflation and the Democrats are going to have a difficult time at next year’s midterm elections, celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary told CNBC on Tuesday. “People are pissed,” he told CNBC’s “Capital Connection.” “They’re pissed about inflation, I don’t have a better word than saying that.” “They’re unhappy. My employees are