The state of Missouri will pay $9 million to the family of an Iowa man who drowned after he fell out of a boat handcuffed and in an improperly secured life vest while he was in custody of a state ...
Read More »Prisons fight opioids with $1,000 injection: Does it work?
U.S. prisons are experimenting with a high-priced monthly injection that could help addicted inmates stay off opioids after they are released, but skeptics question its effectiveness and say the manufacturer has aggressively marketed an unproven drug to corrections officials. A ...
Read More »Comments on settlement in teen’s death gets judge suspended
The South Carolina Supreme Court has suspended a judge who wrote on his Facebook page that a family’s $2 million settlement after an officer fatally shot their son was “all about the money.” Justices unanimously accepted a six-month suspension for ...
Read More »Woman says mistaken identity led to jail in St. Louis death
A woman said investigators’ tunnel vision and mistaken identity led to her being jailed without bail for nearly year in St. Louis in connection to a 2015 fatal shooting. Jadda Kennedy, 26, was initially charged with murder in the death ...
Read More »Trump’s path on health care law intersects with a lawsuit
President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to preserve health insurance coverage even as he pursues repeal of the Obama-era overhaul that provided it to millions of uninsured people. How his administration handles a pending lawsuit over billions of dollars in ...
Read More »Colorado recount possible on slavery in state Constitution
It seemed like a no-brainer: Colorado’s voters were asked to eliminate an archaic and offensive reference to slavery as a punishment for a crime in the state Constitution. But a week after the vote, the poorly-written amendment is on the ...
Read More »Sotomayor says nation ‘can’t afford to despair’ over Trump
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that Americans “can’t afford to despair” in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president. Speaking to an audience at a Capitol Hill cultural center, Sotomayor said the nation can’t afford for a ...
Read More »Smoking pot, no college may not bar you from police work
Police departments are relaxing age-old standards for accepting recruits, from lowering educational requirements to forgiving some prior drug use, to try to attract more people to their ranks. The changes are designed to deal with decreased interest in a job ...
Read More »Trump victory could imperil Roe v. Wade abortion ruling
Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide, could be in jeopardy under Donald Trump’s presidency. If a reconfigured high court did overturn it, the likely outcome would be a patchwork map: some states protecting abortion access, ...
Read More »Denver man freed after 28 years in prison acquitted of rape
A Denver man who spent more than a quarter of a century in prison for a rape he long denied committing was acquitted of the crime on Monday, leaving a courtroom to applause from supporters and chants of “it’s over.” ...
Read More »FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims up by 67 percent in 2015
Reported hate crimes against Muslims rose in 2015 to their highest number since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to FBI statistics released Monday. Overall, the total number of hate crimes against all groups reported by ...
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