SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An eight-year-old boy was allegedly bludgeoned to death with a hammer while trying to save his sister from being sexually abused by his mother’s ex-boyfriend. According to reports, on Sept. 1, Elizabeth Salone, 28, asked her ex-boyfriend Deandre Chaney Jr., 23, to watch her children while she drove her brother to work at 5:30 […]
LANSING, Michigan — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed suit on behalf of four lesbian women in an effort to stop officials in Michigan from contracting with religious adoption agencies that decline to place children in homes without both a mother and a father. “Plaintiffs bring this complaint to challenge Defendants’ practice of permitting State-contracted and taxpayer-funded […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, also known as the “Ten Commandments Judge,” is maintaining his lead in the polls ahead of Tuesday’s primary runoff election despite President Donald Trump’s appearance at a rally on Friday for his opponent, Luther Strange. The data analytics group Optimus, which conducted a poll on Friday and […]
ANTIOCH, Tenn. — A man who opened fire on a Tennessee church on Sunday, killing one and injuring seven others, has now been charged with first-degree murder. Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, reportedly was wearing a mask and holding two pistols when he arrived at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch shortly after the end of the […]
PORTLAND, Maine — A New England chapter of the abortion and contraceptive giant Planned Parenthood has filed a federal lawsuit to challenge a Maine law that only permits physicians to perform abortions as the group believes that nurse practitioners and midwives should also be able to kill unborn babies. The suit, filed in conjunction with the […]
NORMAN, Okla. — A Muslim man from Oklahoma who beheaded his coworker three years ago after being suspended from the job told investigators that Allah “wants us to get the oppressors out,” as per recorded audio played during his trial on Wednesday. “You know the Muslim is somebody who submits their will to Allah … […]
TOPEKA, Kan. — A Thelemite woman who is serving a 40-year sentence surrounding the murder of her husband has filed suit against the Kansas Department of Corrections in an effort to force the prison to stop “imposing strong Christian values on inmates.” The American Humanist Association (AHA) filed suit on behalf of Shari Webber-Dunn, who follows Thelema, a mystic philosophy developed by […]
LONDON — A judge in the United Kingdom has ruled that permission from the courts is not necessary when doctors and family members agree that food and water should be withdrawn from a person in a minimally conscious or persistent vegetative state in order to end their life. The case, decided by Justice Peter Jackson […]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A federal judge in Minnesota has dismissed a preemptive lawsuit filed by a filmmaking couple who are concerned that state law mandates them to create films in support of same-sex “marriage” if they also produce videos that reflect their Christian beliefs about marriage. Chief U.S. District Judge John Tunheim, appointed to the bench by […]
SOMERSET, Ky. — During a court hearing on Wednesday, a police detective in Kentucky outlined that the man who murdered the widow of a late Kentucky pastor last month had stopped by the church to ask for food. According to local reports, the detective, whose name has not been released, told the court that Dwight Bell, […]