Bill Cosby was released from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned. Rescue workers, battling weather and time, recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed Florida …
Bill Cosby was released from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned. Rescue workers, battling weather and time, recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed Florida condo. And former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld died at 88. ???? It’s Laura. I’ve got Wednesday’s news, with a side of futuristic flying cars. The Short List is a snappy USA TODAY news roundup. Subscribe to the newsletter here or text messages here. After two years in prison, Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction Wednesday, and Cosby was released from a state prison hours later. The stunning reversal of fortune for the 83-year-old Cosby, once beloved as “America’s Dad,» happened after the court found an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case. It also shut down the possibility of a third trial in the case, according to prosecutors. Cosby was convicted in 2018 of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia estate in 2004. He was charged in late 2015 when a prosecutor armed with newly unsealed evidence — Cosby’s damaging deposition from her lawsuit — arrested him days before the 12-year statute of limitations expired. Emergency crews aren’t just battling summer weather, smoldering fire and dangerous debris in their race to find unaccounted-for victims. They’re fighting time, heat, water and other factors that will make it harder to identify the dead.
