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DETROIT 鈥?A judge dismissed criminal charges Wednesday against former Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon, who was accused of lying to investigators in 2018 as they tried to learn what she knew years earlier about sexual assault complaints involv stanley quencher ing Larry Nassar.Simon last year was ordered to trial in Eaton County, near Lansing. But Circuit Judge John Maurer tossed the case, saying a lower court judge had abused her discretion in finding enough evidence to keep the case going.Nassar, who was a campus doctor, is serving decades in prison. Hundreds of women and girls, mostly gymnasts, said he molested them with his hands during visits for hip, back stanley cup and leg injuries.The charges against Simon centred on a 2018 interview with investigators who said they wanted to know what officials at the East Lansing school knew about Nassar.Authorities alleged that Simon knew in 2014 that Nassar had been accused of molesting a patient at a campus clinic, a stanley mug nd that she knew of the nature of the complaint.But Simon insisted that she was aware only that a complaint had been filed against a sports doctor. She said she didn t learn anything specific about Nassar until 2016.Maurer reviewed transcripts from the District Court hearing and considered arguments from Simon s defence team as well as prosecutors from the attorney general s office. The testimony and documentary evidence show ... that no one remembers communicating with Dr. Simon about Dr. Nassar in 2014, the judge said. Not on Xbti Oil and gas industry making risky play in response to greenwashing law: experts
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. AP 鈥?Firefighters reported progress Wednesday in the battle to save communities on the south end of Lake Tahoe from an approaching forest fire after the stiff winds they had feared vaso stanley failed to materialize in the California-Nevada alpine region. We lucked out a little bit yesterday with some of the winds that didnt come up quite as hard as we expected them to, Tim Ernst, an operations section chief, told firefighters in a morning briefing. An inversion layer, a cap of warm air over cooler air, then developed in the early morning hours that put a real damper on things, slowed a lot of growth, Ernst said. So a lot of opportunity to make a lot of progress last night. The Caldor Fire has been burning toward Lake Tahoe from th stanley cup e southwest along California Highway 50, climbing over a high-elevation Sierra Nevada summit and descending into the Tahoe Basin. We w stanley cup ere fortunate the fire did not make as strong a push into Tahoe as it did the previous day, Ernst said. Despite the positive developments, firefighters were warned that critical weather conditions remained and they would likely face gusty, swirling winds all day. Thick smoke from the Caldor Fire has enveloped the city of South Lake Tahoe, which is all but deserted at a time when it would normally be swarming with tourists. On Monday, roughly 22,000 residents jammed the citys main arte