Republican leaders are calling for a prosecutor to enforce obscenity laws to remove hundreds of books from schools in the Colorado Springs area, Kyle Clark reports for NBC 9 News. The call for a criminal investigation and possible charges…
Drug overdoses are killing young Americans in unprecedented numbers, with the monthly total rising from 31 in July 2019 to 87 in May 2021, the period with the most recent data, Ty Schepis reports for The Conversation. When the CDC examined…
Legal experts from Boston University School of Law and Northeastern University intend to study the medical underpinnings of the lung float test, a dubious forensic test that has helped send some women to prison for murder though the women…
In the first half of 2023, New York City paid more than $50 million in lawsuits alleging misconduct by members of the NYPD and is on track to exceed $100 million by the end of the year, Akela Lacy reports for The Intercept. The $100…
Fulton county prosecutors say that they do not intend to offer plea deals to Trump, his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, preferring instead to force them to trial, Hugo Lowell reports for…
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg is moving to vacate the conviction of two men found guilty of murders in the 1990s near a Harlem police precinct known for corruption, Edward Helmore reports for The Guardian. Wayne Gardine and Jabar…
To dig himself out of bankruptcy, Alex Jones must consent to a proposal from family members of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that may force him to pay them at least $85 million over the next decade, Jonathan Randles reports…
A Sacramento-area doctor has been jailed on a charge of possessing child pornography following an undercover FBI operation, Sam Stantoon reports for the Sacramento Bee. Dr. Khursheed Haider, a pulmonologist, was arrested following an…
Police in Burlington, Vermont have arrested a man in connection with the shooting of three Palestinian college students and are investigating the shooting as a possibly “hate-motivated” crime, Abigail Hauslohner and Hannah Allam report for…
More than 3,000 civil sex-abuse lawsuits have been filed since a one-time window opened in New York State, with a final wave of suits being filed against politicians, celebrities and institutions before the window closed on Thanksgiving,…
Northern Ireland has enacted new laws around offenses including up-skirting, down-blousing and cyber-flashing, sexual offenses that have become increasingly prevalent in the country, Valerie Martin reports for Northern Ireland World. “Up…
Twenty dangerous drugs, including fifteen new synthetic opioids, will be banned to protect people in the United Kingdom from overdoses and drug related deaths, according to a press release from the country’s home office. Following advice…
Irish police are expected to make sweeping arrests of suspected ringleaders of Thursday’s riot in Dublin when 500 anti-immigrant activists and gangs of youths looted shops, burned vehicles and attacked police, Rory Carroll reports for The…
Georgia deputy attorney general John Fowler alleges that the diary of an environmental activist police shot and killed earlier this year is needed to prove that 61 defendants tied to opposition against a training center near Atlanta, known…
Six teenagers go on trial Monday in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class, the Associated Press reports. Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was…
The third and final trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain enters largely uncharted legal territory, according to experts, because it involves homicide and manslaughter charges against two paramedics, Colleen Slevin and Mathew Brown…
A decision by federal authorities on whether to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III substance in the same category as prescription drugs such as anabolic steroids, ketamine and testosterone is expected in coming months, Fenit Nirappil…
A Roman Catholic priest in Alabama has legally married a recent high school graduate he met through his ministry after fleeing with her to Europe amid an investigation by the Mobile county sheriff’s office into allegations that he engaged…
The record number of people crossing the Darién Gap, a 100km stretch of jungle connecting Colombia and Panama, are being targeted for rape and kidnap by armed bandits, Luke Taylor reports for The Guardian. According to Médecins Sans…
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday declared that Maryland’s licensing requirements for people seeking to buy handguns were unconstitutional, Nate Raymond reports for Reuters. A three-judge panel blocked enforcement of a 2013 Maryland law that…
A former Northeastern University track-and-field coach pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Boston federal court to charges of wire fraud, cyberstalking and computer fraud related to a scheme to steal nude photos from the cellphones of female…
A man belonging to a violent gang accused of kidnapping four U.S. citizens in Haiti’s central Artibonite region in July 2022 has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges, the Associated Press reports. Jhon Peter Fleronvil is affiliated…
In personal writings reveal by the police, a man who killed five people and injured eight at a Louisville, Kentucky bank in April said he was motivated by hope that his rampage would highlight the ease with which he acquired an AR-15 and…
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has suspended a member of the state’s new hate crimes commission for her social media comments promoting the Palestinian cause and criticizing Israel, Alex Mann reports for the Baltimore Sun. The…
On Friday, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Damian Williams, joined lawyers representing people detained in New York City jails in an effort to strip Mayor Eric Adams’s administration of control over Rikers Island, asking a judge to…
An analysis by the Cape Cod Times, Worcester Telegram & Gazette and USA Today has found that Massachusetts legislators, despite the state’s liberal reputation, have done little to combat racial profiling over the past 20 years, Jeannette…
According to a new Human Rights Campaign report, Thirty-three transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed by violence in the United States since last year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, twenty-six of them in 2023, Kiara…
A Connecticut business owner is accused of lying to several women about a fake medical study in order to physically violate and photograph them for money, Angela Fortuna reports for NBC Connecticut. Brian Casella, of Bethel, who owns a…
A report from the Chicago-based 21CP Solutions found that Des Moines, Iowa should prioritize efforts to improve data collection on police stops and searches, Jason Clayworth reports for Axios. The report, which follows multiple accusations…
The prosecution and defense gave closing statements and jury deliberations have ended in the capital murder trial of Marvin Guy, who is accused of murdering Killeen, Texas Police Detective Charles Dinwiddie, Earl Stoudemire reports for…