KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A maintenance man at a church in Missouri has been charged after admitting that he spray painted racist graffiti on the windows of the church and set fire to a chair in order to cover up that he had broken into two offices to steal money, which he used to buy […]
SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah Hospital nurse who was dragged out screaming and placed in handcuffs for explaining to a police detective that he needed a warrant to withdraw blood from an unconscious crash victim has agreed to a $500,000 payment from Salt Lake City and the University of Utah to settle […]
(New York Times) — Eight people were killed when a man drove 20 blocks down a bike path beside the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon before he crashed his pickup truck, jumped out with fake guns and was shot by a police officer, the authorities said. Federal authorities were treating the incident […]
GLASGOW, Ky. — A Kentucky judge who announced earlier this year that he would recuse himself from hearing any same-sex adoption cases has resigned after the state’s Judicial Conduct Commission decided to charge him with ethics violations over his recusal. Judge W. Mitchell Nance submitted a letter Thursday to Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin advising that he […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A superior court judge in California has ruled that a state law requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to provide information about government abortion programs runs afoul of the California Constitution. “Here, the State commands clinics to post specific directions for whom to contact to obtain an abortion. It forces the clinic to point […]
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s ban on “transgendered” persons in the military, finding that the five service members who sued over the ban had a likelihood of success in the lawsuit. “[T]he presidential memorandum is causing Plaintiffs serious ongoing harms and will cause them further harms in the […]
LONDON — A student at a prominent university in the United Kingdom who was expelled over comments that he made on Facebook outlining the biblical stance on homosexuality has lost his appeal before the Royal Courts of Justice. While Judge Rowena Collins-Rice found that the “right to express the content of deeply held religious views deserves respect […]
WASHINGTON — Newly-released FBI records show that Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza was obsessed with mass murder, possessed “large amounts” of materials on firearms, played sometimes violent video games and also possessed material in favor of pedophilia. A report within the 1,500 pages released by the FBI outlines that among the digital evidence seized by […]
WASHINGTON — A teenager who is in the country illegally has obtained an abortion after the full, or en banc, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration must allow the girl to go through with the procedure, reviving a lower court order that the girl have the abortion “promptly and without delay.” “More […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Democratic governor of North Carolina has submitted a consent decree allowing “transgender” residents to use the restrooms that align with their “gender identity” in an effort to end a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the matter. “The executive branch defendants, in their official capacities, and all successors, […]