South Dakota’s Aberdeen American News mixes up a man accused of sexual exploitation and his lawyer:
Wrong name: Samuel A. Seeley, 21, was arrested at an Aberdeen home in January and charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and solicitation of a minor. A court story in Wednesday’s American News referenced the wrong person as having been arrested. Tom Cogley was Seeley’s attorney and was not arrested.
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This year's gripes include Cybertrucks, shopping carts and more
Local authorities denied claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio ate pets, but Trump and Vance pushed the falsehood, causing real-world consequences
Conspiracy theories, obfuscated truths, downplaying and denialism, smears and repeated misstatements. We've seen it all.
Vance’s rumor embrace and Trump’s debate outburst cemented lasting consequences, stigmatizing a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage
