Tag: Law and order
Judge jails editor over reporter’s use of recorder in court
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina Superior Court judge put a small-town newspaper editor behind bars last month after one of his reporters used...
Ex-college football player gets 25 years for Texas slaying
FORT WORTH, Texas — A former football player at McMurry University in West Texas has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his...
Ex-Liberty exec files lawsuit alleging racial discrimination
LYNCHBURG, Va. — A former NFL player hired last year to help lead diversity initiatives at Liberty University is suing the school, alleging racial...
California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is poised to approve reparations up to $25,000 to victims who were among the thousands of people — some as...
NYC mayoral primary winner Eric Adams: ‘I know how to lead’
NEW YORK — Eric Adams, the winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, vowed Wednesday to guide the city to...
Norman Knight: What’s happening to our old oak tree?
“What is going on with the oak trees?” I wondered to Becky.
“I’m not sure,” she said, “but something is clearly wrong.”
From our vantage point...
Prosecutor: Newspaper gunman spoke of making trial ‘a farce’
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper told a state psychiatrist that he intended to make “a farce”...
Teen who recorded Floyd’s arrest loses uncle in police crash
MINNEAPOLIS — The teenager who recorded the last moments of George Floyd's life in a video that helped launch a global protest movement against...
2 more men arrested during Massachusetts standoff arraigned
MEDFORD, Mass. — Two more people charged in connection with an armed standoff along a Massachusetts highway last weekend were arraigned on Wednesday under...
France: 11 convicted of cyberbullying teen who slammed Islam
PARIS — A French court on Wednesday convicted 11 of 13 people charged with harassing and threatening a teenager who harshly criticized Islam in...