Jacob OglesJune 12, 2023
3min0
A memo noted the shooters' allegiance to ISIS and targeting of LGBTQ and Hispanic victims.
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Jacob OglesJune 12, 2023
Scott PowersFebruary 13, 2019
5min655
"My review is now closed," she said.
Scott PowersJuly 24, 2018
7min355
Democratic state Sen. Linda Stewart shredded the Department of Agriculture Inspector General’s report on concerns regarding the state’s concealed weapons permitting program Tuesday, suggested those concerns were tied to the 2016 Pulse slaughter, and renewed her call for an outside investigation. “I am disturbed by an alarming trend among our elected officials to evade responsibility […]
Associated PressJune 28, 2017
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Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to keep an obstruction charge against the wife of the Orlando nightclub shooter. Prosecutors this week filed a response to a request from Noor Salman to dismiss a count she’s facing. Salman was charged with aiding her husband, and obstruction for allegedly misleading investigators. The obstruction charge was filed […]
Associated PressApril 20, 20171min237
The trial of the wife of the Orlando nightclub gunman could be pushed back to next March. A proposed trial schedule filed Wednesday in federal court would have Noor Salman‘s trial starting in March 2018 and lasting for 25 days. A hearing is scheduled for Thursday to go over the schedule. Court papers filed last […]
Associated PressApril 9, 2017
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The FBI has been reviewing the handling of thousands of terrorism-related tips and leads from the past three years to make sure they were properly investigated and no obvious red flags were missed, The Associated Press has learned. The review follows attacks by people who were once on the FBI’s radar but who have been […]
Associated PressMarch 27, 2017
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A judge says a lawsuit brought by victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre against the gunman’s employer and wife may be tossed out of federal court. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra last week issued an order raising questions about whether federal court was the proper jurisdiction for the lawsuit. The judge gave the plaintiffs 10 […]
Associated PressMarch 1, 2017
3min154
A California judge will decide Wednesday whether to free the widow of the gunman who killed dozens of people at a Florida nightclub or keep her behind bars until she faces trial on charges of aiding his attack. Noor Salman, 31, also has been charged with lying to investigators after the shooting at Pulse nightclub […]
Associated PressFebruary 8, 2017
5min214
Some Pulse nightclub patrons are upset that they aren’t receiving money from a $29.5 million victims’ compensation fund since they were outside the club when the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history began, newly released emails show. In one email sent to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, a Pulse patron said he and his boyfriend […]
Associated PressFebruary 2, 2017
5min227
A federal judge in California declined Wednesday to release the widow of the man who killed 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub after prosecutors said she accompanied her husband on scouting trips for potential targets that included the Disney Springs shopping complex. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in Oakland said she wanted a psychiatric evaluation […]