As jurors deliberated the fate of one of six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore braced for a possible repeat of the protests, destruction and dismay that engulfed the city in April, when Gray died of ...
Read More »Missouri bid to strip scholarships if athletes strike pulled
A Missouri lawmaker withdrew a bill Wednesday that sought to strip scholarships from college athletes who refuse to play for reasons unrelated to health. Republican state Rep. Rick Brattin had filed the legislation Friday in response to last month’s threat ...
Read More »Analysis: Bush strong in GOP debate but it may not matter
Jeb Bush finally delivered a powerful debate performance. But it may not matter. The former Florida governor repeatedly took the fight to front-runner Donald Trump in Las Vegas Tuesday night as the Republican Party’s 2016 class met on the debate ...
Read More »Congress set for year-end push on tax, spending compromise
Congressional leaders are girded to push a Christmas compromise on tax cuts and spending through the House and Senate by week’s end after Republicans and Democrats reached agreement on a legislative package extending dozens of tax breaks for businesses and ...
Read More »Appeals court: Judge didn’t have power to hear DC gun case
A lawsuit over the District of Columbia’s strict gun law hit a speed bump Tuesday when an appeals court ruled that a federal judge who halted the law’s enforcement didn’t have authority to rule on the case. A three-judge panel of ...
Read More »Texas sends fewer to death row as capital punishment wanes
Texas sent far fewer prisoners to death row in 2015, marking the lowest number of new condemned inmates since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the state’s capital punishment statute nearly four decades ago, according to a Texas-based group opposed to the ...
Read More »After Calif. shootings, workplaces examine emergency plans
The terror attack at a social services facility in California has become a sobering reminder to companies of how vulnerable workplaces can be when employees are confronted with active shooters. Since a gun-wielding husband-and-wife team killed 14 and wounded 21 ...
Read More »US Supreme Court to decide whether tribal convictions count
The U.S. Supreme Court says it will decide whether a person with multiple domestic violence convictions in tribal court should be subject to harsher punishments for habitual offenders. The appeal stems from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from a ...
Read More »Samsung asks Supreme Court to throw out $399M judgment
In its patent dispute with Apple, Samsung is asking the Supreme Court to take a digital-age look at an issue it last confronted in the horse-and-buggy era. South Korea-based Samsung on Monday appealed a $399 million judgment for illegally copying patented ...
Read More »Kansas Supreme Court hears Kleypas death-penalty appeal
An attorney for the first prisoner condemned to death in Kansas in more than three decades asked the state’s highest court Monday to throw out his sentence, alleging jurors should have been removed from the case after seeing the victim’s ...
Read More »Study: Smaller counties driving US jail population growth
While big-city jails get most of the attention, lockups in small and medium-sized counties have actually driven the overall explosion in the U.S. inmate population, according to a new analysis of 45 years of jail statistics. U.S. jails now hold ...
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