May 4, 2017 10:18 am Published by admin More than 20 years ago, when Russell Foster was 19 and his girlfriend Amber was 15, Montana’s laws tore them apart, sending Russell to prison for four years for having sex with a minor. Their story mostly has a happy Read More
April 20, 2017 5:37 pm Published by admin Sexual assault victims will no longer need to prove that they physically fought back against their attackers in order for the incident to be characterized as rape after a new bill was signed into law in Maryland on Tuesday. Continue Read More
April 20, 2017 5:35 pm Published by admin Because of a lab chemist’s widespread criminal misconduct in analyzing drug samples, about 95% of 20,000 drug convictions in Massachusetts have been dismissed, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. Continue reading.
April 20, 2017 5:33 pm Published by admin Upset that people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders have been put to death after murder convictions, lawmakers in a handful of states want to bar the use of the death penalty for people with a serious mental illness. Continue Read More
April 20, 2017 5:31 pm Published by admin In an effort to reinforce that Blue Lives Matter, the Arizona Legislature and Gov. Doug Ducey have created tougher penalties for assaulting a police officer even if the officer is off duty. Continue reading.
April 20, 2017 5:23 pm Published by admin If any service best reflects the new economy, it may be hailing rides on demand from big companies like Uber and Lyft. They let riders avoid the hassle of flagging down a taxicab by simply tapping a mobile application on Read More
April 20, 2017 5:19 pm Published by admin A new large-scale technology has launched in Decatur, Illinois that, by combining together corn-based fuels with the burial of carbon dioxide deep underground, could potentially result in the active removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Continue reading.
April 11, 2017 4:02 pm Published by admin When the independent federal watch-dog agency, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), released its 2017 High Risk List of dysfunctional, inefficient and wasteful programs, the 2020 Decennial Census made the Top 3 out of a total of 34.Continue Reading.
March 29, 2017 9:29 pm Published by admin Cameron Credle was barely more than a toddler when he was diagnosed with abnormally high cholesterol. And over the years, despite being an avid runner and bicyclist and a careful eater, Credle has seen his numbers climb high into the Read More
March 29, 2017 9:27 pm Published by admin Adrian Thomas falsely confessed to harming his infant son when Troy police told him that admittance could save the boy’s life. Video footage of the nearly 10-hour interrogation revealed what they didn’t tell him: the boy was already dead. Continue Read More