NFL's Saints fight to shield emails in local Catholic abuse crisis

YAHOO NEWS

The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis. read more »

Actress Sciorra on alleged Weinstein rape: 'I couldn't fight anymore'

REUTERS

Actress Annabella Sciorra testified that Harvey Weinstein pinned her hands behind her head and violently raped her more than 25 years ago in her apartment as prosecutors began making their sexual assault case against the former Hollywood producer.

Weinstein, 67, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting two women, Mimi Haleyi and Jessica Mann. read more »

The Harvey Weinstein Trial: A Brief Timeline Of How We Got Here

NPR

For much of Harvey Weinstein's career, dark rumors of sexual assault and harassment tailed the Hollywood megaproducer. But they were rarely spoken with much volume. Only in recent years did the allegations gather the heft and momentum that culminated in this: a teeming courtroom in Manhattan where, in a matter of weeks, a judge might send Weinstein to prison for the rest of his life. read more »

Former CNY mayor, scoutmaster who worked at school accused of child sex abuse in ’70s

SYRACUSE.COM

A lawsuit filed today under New York’s Child Victims Act accuses a former Weedsport school district employee, Boy Scout leader and village mayor of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in the 1970s. . read more »