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Harvey Weinstein weighing guilty plea to resolve third-degree rape charge

Disgraced former movie mogul would avoid a third trial in New York on charges that came to define the #MeToo era

Disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve an undecided third-degree rape charge and avoid a third trial in New York on charges that came to define the #MeToo era.

Weinstein, in a wheelchair and looking noticeably paler than he did when he was last in court in June, was brought to Judge Curtis Farber’s court on Thursday, seeking to have his latest sex crime conviction thrown out over claims of juror intimidation.

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© Photograph: Steven Hirsch/EPA

© Photograph: Steven Hirsch/EPA

© Photograph: Steven Hirsch/EPA

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US serial killer confesses to 1965 murder of 18-year-old woman in New Jersey

Police close murder case of Alys Eberhardt after confession from Richard Cottingham, known as the ‘Torso Killer’

Richard Cottingham, a US serial killer widely known as the “Torso Killer”, has confessed to the 1965 killing of an 18-year-old woman in New Jersey.

On Tuesday, New Jersey police announced the closure of the murder case of Alys Eberhardt after Cottingham, 79, admitted to killing her nearly six decades ago. Eberhardt, then a nursing student, was found brutally beaten and dead in her family home in Fair Lawn.

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© Photograph: Fair Lawn Police Department via Facebook

© Photograph: Fair Lawn Police Department via Facebook

© Photograph: Fair Lawn Police Department via Facebook

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Ex-Premier League ref David Coote gets suspended sentence over schoolboy video

Coote, 43, had previously pleaded guilty to making an indecent moving image of a child

The former Premier League referee David Coote has been given a suspended sentence after he was found to have a sexual video of a 15-year-old boy in school uniform on his laptop.

Judge Shant said Coote, 43, had a “spectacular fall from grace” after police charged him with making a category A video, the most serious kind, of a 15-year-old schoolboy. The charge refers to activities such as downloading, sharing or saving photos or videos containing abuse.

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© Photograph: Phil Barnett/PA

© Photograph: Phil Barnett/PA

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At least two killed in shooting outside Mormon church in Salt Lake City

Dozens of people were attending a funeral inside the church as the shooting happened, police said

Two people were killed and several injured in a shooting outside a church in Salt Lake City, Utah police said on Wednesday.

The shooting took place in the parking lot of a meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church.

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© Photograph: Rio Giancarlo/AP

© Photograph: Rio Giancarlo/AP

© Photograph: Rio Giancarlo/AP

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