Bill Cosby found liable in 1972 sexual assault, must pay nearly $60M in damages
A civil jury in California found 88-year-old Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting Donna Motsinger in 1972, and awarded her nearly $60 million.
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A civil jury in California found 88-year-old Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting Donna Motsinger in 1972, and awarded her nearly $60 million.
Actor and director Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for his role on "The Cosby Show," has died.
This is the latest lawsuit against the 86-year-old former "Cosby Show" star, who has now been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by more than 60 women.
Shortly after declaring Bill Cosby a "sexually violent predator" on Tuesday, a judge sentenced the TV star to 3 to 10 years for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004.
Bill Cosby and his chief accuser arrived at a suburban Philadelphia courthouse Monday for the start of a sentencing hearing.
Bill Cosby's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was vandalized this week by someone who scrawled the words "serial rapist."
The jury that convicted Bill Cosby at his sexual assault trial said that the decision was only influenced by what happened in court, and that the comedian's own words sealed his fate.
A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the "Cosby Show" star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday.
"You now have all of the evidence," Judge Steven O'Neill told jurors. "Try to relax, so that you're on your game tomorrow."
The topless protester who ran toward Bill Cosby at the start of his sexual assault retrial on Monday is an actress who appeared on the comedian's sitcom "The Cosby Show" as a child.
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A topless protester jumped a barricade and got within a few feet of Bill Cosby as the comedian walked into the courthouse for the start of his sexual assault retrial.
Letting jurors hear from some of Bill Cosby's dozens of accusers at his looming retrial would sharpen the prosecution's he-said-she-said case into a sweeping referendum on five-decades of alleged misconduct.
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Bill Cosby performed in public for the first time since a sex abuse scandal embroiled him in 2015, joking that he "used to be a comedian" and playing with a jazz band in his hometown as a retrial looms in his criminal sexual assault case.
A former prosecutor claims his decision in 2005 not to charge Bill Cosby with drugging and molesting a woman led to the comedian paying his accuser a settlement "well into the millions of dollars."
Bill Cosby wants a judge to sign off on a swap that would give him a fresh new legal team ahead of his sexual assault retrial in Pennsylvania in November.
The stage for Bill Cosby's next legal challenge shifts to California with a hearing scheduled Tuesday to set a trial date in a lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting a teen at the Playboy Mansion more than 40 years ago.
Prosecutors found themselves back to square one Saturday after the jury in Bill Cosby's sexual assault case declared itself hopelessly deadlocked.
Jurors considering the fate of Bill Cosby at his sexual assault trial returned for a fifth day of deliberations on Friday, a day after telling the judge they were deadlocked on all charges.
Jurors in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial have told a judge they're deadlocked on charges the comedian drugged and molested a woman in 2004.
Bill Cosby's lawyers put on a case consisting of just one witness and six minutes of testimony Monday, wrapping up the defense side in the sexual assault trial without the comedian himself taking the stand.
Jurors at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial have heard excerpts from the comedian's lurid, decade-old deposition, but sections about him obtaining quaaludes and giving them to women before sex are yet to come.
Bill Cosby went on trial Monday on charges that he drugged and sexually assaulted a woman more than a decade ago. Prosecutors warned the jury not to confuse the comedian with his TV characters.
Ivan Espinoza-Montes, of McKinney, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child – a first-degree charge.
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Ivan Espinoza-Montes, of McKinney, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child – a first-degree charge.
The Perseid meteor shower is the best viewing all year, according to NASA.
Temperatures will rise to 100° in the afternoon, with the heat index reaching 106°. A heat advisory is in effect from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
More than 2,700 people were reported missing on Monday night, after the country was struck by its strongest earthquake on record.
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