MICHAEL R. SISAK

‘Your friends': Constand tells Cosby jury of pills, assault
Bill Cosby’s chief accuser sent jurors into the weekend with a stark portrait of the night she says the man she viewed as a friend and mentor tricked her into taking a powerful drug and then humiliated her for his own sexual gratification.
 
Model says Cosby raped her; chief accuser to testify Friday
The chief accuser at Bill Cosby’s sex assault retrial is set to testify Friday. Andrea Constand says the 80-year-old comedian drugged and molested her during an encounter at his home in 2004. He says their encounter was consensual.
 
3 accusers confront Cosby; one calls him a ‘serial rapist’
Three of Bill Cosby’s accusers have confronted the 80-year-old comedian in court. They say Cosby knocked them out with intoxicants and sexually assaulted them decades ago. One woman pointedly called him a “serial rapist.”
 
Bill Cosby’s lawyers want juror ousted over ‘guilty’ comment
A juror in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial is under scrutiny for allegedly saying he thinks the comedian is guilty.
 
Jury selection wraps up in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial
Prosecutors and the defense have wrapped up jury selection in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case, setting the stage for the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Six alternates were picked Thursday.
 
Bill Cosby trial judge delivers 2 big victories to defense
The judge in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial has delivered two major victories to the comedian’s legal defense. Judge Steven O’Neill ruled Tuesday that a woman who says his accuser was out for money can testify.
 
The 5 other accusers chosen to testify at Cosby’s retrial
O’Neill’s March 15 ruling cleared the way for prosecutors to broaden their case beyond the alleged assault of Andrea Constand in 2004 that led to Cosby’s only criminal charges. They want to show that he had a pattern of misconduct over a five-decade span.
 
Prosecutors push judge to let other Cosby accusers testify
Prosecutors are trying to persuade the judge in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial to allow as many as 19 other accusers to take the stand.
 
Prosecutors in Bill Cosby retrial want 19 women to testify
Prosecutors in Bill Cosby’s retrial want to call as many as 19 other women to the witness stand to show he had a five-decade pattern of drugging and harming women.
 
Eagles, Philly fans get catharsis through Super Bowl parade
Philadelphia’s first Super Bowl parade provided catharsis for hundreds of thousands of deliriously happy Eagles fans who jammed the streets leading to the city’s famed “Rocky” steps to revel in an NFL title many thought would never come.
 
Cosby lawyers: Prosecutors withheld, destroyed key evidence
Bill Cosby’s lawyers are accusing prosecutors of withholding and destroying evidence that could have helped him. Cosby’s lawyers want his criminal sexual assault case dismissed before his April retrial.
 
Sleep apnea went undiagnosed in engineers in 2 train crashes
Federal investigators say the engineers of two New York City-area commuter trains that slammed into stations both had severe sleep apnea.
 
Cosby’s accuser stands by her story under cross-examination
A woman who says Bill Cosby drugged and molested her more than a decade ago is off the witness stand after sticking to her story during hours of cross-examination at his suburban Philadelphia sexual-assault trial.
 
‘I was frozen': Cosby accuser says she was drugged, groped
Bill Cosby’s chief accuser at his sexual assault trial in suburban Philadelphia says the comedian violated her in 2004 after giving her three blue pills that left her paralyzed.
 
Daughter from ‘The Cosby Show’ stands by comedian at trial
Bill Cosby’s TV daughter says she went to a suburban Philadelphia courtroom on the first day of his sexual-assault trial to show support. Keshia Knight Pulliam played the 79-year-old comedian’s youngest daughter, Rudy, on “The Cosby Show.”
 
Trump is master of his domains, even ones that bash him
Donald Trump has been buying up web addresses that mock or insult him, with the goal of making sure they don’t fall into the hands of his enemies. All told, he and his Trump Organization own more than 3,600 domains, many positive, some derogatory.
 
Amtrak train struck backhoe at 106 mph; 2 killed on track
Federal investigators say the Amtrak passenger train that crashed into a backhoe on the track was going 106 mph in a 110 mph zone.
 
2 papal parades, more passes available after ticket outcry
Aside from public allotments announced Thursday of 10,000 for each of Francis’ three outdoor events, tickets are only being given to parishioners and special guests. Organizers would not say how many tickets were being printed or how many were being given to event sponsors.
 
Feds trying to determine if Amtrak engineer was using phone
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Investigators are combing through phone records, locomotive data, radio transmissions and surveillance video to determine if the engineer in last week’s deadly Amtrak derailment was using his cellphone while at the controls, federal authorities said Wednesday.
 
Boston suspect’s sister charged in NY bomb threat
Ailina Tsarnaeva, who lives in North Bergen, New Jersey, made the threat against an upper Manhattan woman via telephone on Monday, police said. She turned herself in at a Manhattan police precinct, and police charged her with aggravated harassment.
 
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