DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge has overturned a jury’s decision imposing $500,000 in punitive damages against a former a Delaware prison guard accused of sexually assaulting an inmate during a pat-down.
The jury in December found that former guard William Kuschel violated the Eighth Amendment rights of inmate DeShawn Drumgo during the 2014 incident. The jury awarded Drumgo $1 in nominal damages but slapped Kuschel with $500,000 in punitive damages. The judge on Wednesday denied Kuschel’s request for a new trial but also declared that the punitive award was excessive.
He reduced the punitive damages to $5,000.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A 17-year-old pilot has become the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a small aircraft after he landed in Bulgaria. That's the country where Mack Rutherford's journey kicked off five months ago. Rutherford landed on an airstrip west of Bulgarian capital Sofia on Wednesday to complete his task and to claim two Guinness World Records. Rutherford is now also the youngest person to […]
