The percentage of young women living at home with parents or relatives has risen to its highest level since 1940 as more millennial women put off marriage, attend college and face high living expenses. A Pew Research Center analysis of ...
Read More »New judges assess tarnished public image of Pa. high court
The past few years have been a difficult and sometimes humiliating period for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as one headline-grabbing scandal after another has scuffed its image and thinned its ranks. In 2013, Justice Joan Orie Melvin resigned after being convicted ...
Read More »Attorneys, small business owners just say no to preserve family time
Sometimes family comes first. That’s the priority Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., set before becoming House speaker recently; he warned he’s going to spend weekends with his wife and three children, not political fundraisers. “I cannot and I will not give ...
Read More »Coal not going away anytime soon despite renewables push
Coal: Can’t live with it and can’t live without it — at least not yet. It is the biggest source of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that negotiators around the world hope to limit in an agreement to be thrashed out in ...
Read More »Yakama man’s 1917 illegal fishing conviction overturned
Justice can come slowly. In this case it has taken nearly a century. It is the story of treaty rights, Washington state’s belated efforts to correct wrongs and an 81-year-old Yakama man who sought for years to vacate his great-uncle’s ...
Read More »Opaque military justice system shields child sex abuse cases
As a U.S. Marine, Daniel E. DeSmit swore to live by a code of honor. Semper fidelis, always faithful. But DeSmit shattered that pledge repeatedly — directing dozens of live Internet videos of children having sex with each other. DeSmit, ...
Read More »Federal court rules Wisconsin abortion law unconstitutional
A Wisconsin law that requires abortion providers to get admitting privileges at nearby hospitals is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court panel ruled Monday. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel’s 2-1 decision doesn’t put the question to rest. The U.S. Supreme Court ...
Read More »Judge: 3 gay couples can amend kids’ birth certificates
An Arkansas judge said Monday that three same-sex couples who sued the state for refusing to name both spouses on the birth certificates of their children can get the documents amended to list both names. Judge Tim Fox did not ...
Read More »Suit seeks to restore parental rights in lost baby case
Fifty years after a St. Louis gospel singer says she was told that her daughter died at birth, and months after the 76-year-old woman learned that her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth ...
Read More »Media groups get involved in author’s lawsuit in Montana
A pending lawsuit by “Into the Wild” author Jon Krakauer will be the nation’s first test following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2012 Obamacare ruling of whether state education officials can use the threat of lost federal funding to justify refusing public ...
Read More »NY court: Targeted killings memos can be kept secret
The U.S. government can keep secret various memos related to its legal justification for using drones to kill citizens suspected of terrorism overseas, a federal appeals court said in a decision unsealed Monday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reached its ...
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