Minihane, who appeared Thursday on Family Feud as part of a charity fundraiser, clarified Friday that he was the only Family Feud contestant also appearing on Dateline who “has solved a murder” rather than committing one. Minihane was instrumental in helping solve the 2021 murder of teacher’s aide Sandra Birchmore, according to BostonMagazine.com. Birchmore, 23, was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment, her death initially ruled as a suicide by asphyxia. But federal authorities later determined that she had been killed, with a local police officer alleged to have murdered her. Minihane was “the first journalist to raise questions about...

A north-west Louisiana jury recently awarded a staggering $1.1bn in damages to a woman who sued over childhood sexual molestation at the hands of her late stepfather in the 1960s and 1970s – a verdict that the plaintiff says “sends a message that children are precious” and “deserve protection”. The outcome in Pamela Elaine Lockridge’s lawsuit caused waves among Louisiana’s legal community, illustrating how much civil juries are willing to award to plaintiffs for cases tried under the state’s so-called “lookback law”. Passed in 2021 and upheld as constitutional in 2024, that law temporarily eliminated filing deadlines for lawsuits involving child...

An $800 million proposal from the Archdiocese of New York to settle more than 1,000 claims of clergy sex abuse is a step towards accountability but an imperfect resolution for the church's victims, said one accuser and several plaintiff advocates. The archdiocesan settlement, which the recently appointed Archbishop Ronald Hicks described as the culmination of "several months" of negotiations between the church and plaintiff representatives, comes amid a bitter, yearslong legal dispute pitting the archdiocese against its longtime insurer Chubb, which has refused to pay compensation to accusers and accused church leaders of intentionally enabling and concealing sexual abuse...

A bill to strengthen protections for child abuse victims is currently stalled on the Senate floor, despite easily passing every other step of the legislative process this session. House Bill 4227, also known as the Cindy Clemishire Act and Trey's Law, has received zero no votes at the Oklahoma State Capitol. This has led to growing confusion about why the Senate hasn't taken the legislation up. Right now it is a race against time to get it across the finish line. Christmas night 1982 was the first time Robert Morris sexually abused Cindy Clemishire. She was...

NYS Capital — Four women who say they're survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring appeared at the New York State Capitol on Monday, testifying at the NYS Senate Codes Committee meeting.  They told their stories, while advocating for the passage of legislation they saw would strengthen accountability and the timing in which an individual is able to report a crime. Bill S9960, or the Trafficking Survivor Recovery and Accountability Act is: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crimes of benefiting from a sex trafficking venture and aggravated benefiting from a sex trafficking...