NEW HAMPTON, Mo. — A homeschooling couple has agreed to accept a settlement offer from a Missouri sheriff and his deputy after they filed a lawsuit for being pepper sprayed and tasered for refusing to let police in their house without a warrant. As previously reported, the situation occurred in September 2011 after a Missouri Child Protective […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A judge in Arkansas has ruled in favor of three pairs of lesbians who sought to be recognized on the birth certificates of their children, although at least one woman is not the biological parent. Six lesbians had filed suit against the Arkansas Health Department’s Vital Statistics Bureau after it declined to […]
MADISON, Wisc. — A federal appeals court has struck down a Wisconsin law requiring abortionists to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital, with a judge nominated to the bench by then-President Ronald Reagan writing the opinion on behalf of the majority. As previously reported, Gov. Scott Walker approved Senate Bill 206 (SB206) in July […]
AUSTIN, Texas — The abortion giant Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas for terminating its Medicaid contract effective Dec. 8. “By cancelling Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid contract, these politicians are telling women where they can and cannot go for reproductive healthcare,” Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s Gang and Violent Crime Unit, along with U.S. marshals, arrested a teenager on Sunday in the death of Indiana pastor’s wife Amanda Blackburn. The suspect has been identified as 18-year-old Larry Taylor of Indianapolis, who neighbors state they saw in the area the morning that Blackburn was killed. […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The governor of Oklahoma is calling for the state’s Health Care Authority Board to cancel its contract with the abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Gov. Mary Fallin sent a letter on Wednesday to Director Nico Gomez to outline her reasons for pulling the funding. “Research strongly suggests that Planned Parenthood and its Oklahoma and […]
LONDON — A judge in the UK has granted a request to pull the clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) of a woman who is stated to be “minimally conscious” as her daughter believes that keeping her alive in her current condition brings her “indignity.” The 68-year-old woman, only identified as Mrs. N, suffers from […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — An Indiana pastor’s wife who died last week after being declared brain dead when she was shot in the head during a home invasion was raped and her bank cards were used after the attack, reports state. WTHR-TV reports that not only did Amanda Blackburn fight her attacker last week, but she […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A judge in California has ruled that the frozen embryos of a divorced couple must be “thawed and discarded,” after the wife said she wanted them but the husband did not. Dr. Mimi Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer the day before her marriage to Stephen Findley in 2010, and so the couple […]
PORT NECHES, Texas — Residents in a Texas city are pushing back after a prominent professing atheist group recently sent a letter demanding the removal of a cross monument from a public park. The cross at issue, a 10-foot cement monument, sits in Riverfront Park in Port Neches, and has done so for the past […]