CLAYTON, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama inmate has died after being stabbed by another inmate. The Department of Corrections said in a Friday news release that 29-year-old Joshua David Willingham died days after being stabbed by another inmate at Ventress Correctional Facility in Clayton. The prison system says Willingham was assaulted in a housing area Read More…
ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) – Iowa state prison officials say an Anamosa State Penitentiary corrections officer has been assaulted by an inmate. Officials say in a news release that the officer was working at his post Friday morning when an inmate jumped across the officer’s desk and kicked him in the face. The inmate then landed Read More…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa Supreme Court says it has hired a law firm to conduct an independent investigation into the arrests of two cybersecurity workers found inside a closed central Iowa courthouse who say they were just doing their jobs testing courthouse security. The state’s high court said in a statement Friday Read More…
GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) – A man who narrowly avoided the death penalty for the shooting death of an Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy has been formally sentenced to life in prison without parole. A judge on Friday sentenced Nathan LeForce to life in prison without parole for the 2017 killing of Logan County Deputy David Wade, who Read More…
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) – Two police officers and a suspect were taken to hospitals after a shooting in Georgia. Gainesville police spokesman Kevin Holbrook told WSB-TV that a suspect was shot by officers Friday afternoon. He did not give details about the person’s condition. Northeast Georgia Medical Center spokeswoman Beth Downs told The Gainesville Times Read More…
NEW YORK (AP) – Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán is being investigated for an alleged domestic violence incident involving his girlfriend at home this week, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Friday. The person spoke under condition of anonymity because no details have been authorized during the probe by Major League Read More…
CLINTON, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri woman will serve 20 years in prison for her role in the death of a Clinton police officer. KMBC-TV reports Tammy Widger was sentenced Friday to 20 years for second-degree murder in the March 2018 death of Officer Christopher Ryan Morton. Morton was killed when officers responded to an Read More…
ONEONTA, Ala. (AP) – A Kentucky man who pleaded guilty to stealing a school bus in Alabama has been sentenced to eight years in prison. AL.com reports 26-year-old Brandon Peckinpaugh of Bowling Green also pleaded guilty to a string of break-ins before the school bus theft in Blount County in August 2017. He’s accused of Read More…
A New Jersey judge who suggested a woman could close her legs to prevent a sexual assault is fighting attempts by the state Supreme Court to remove him from the bench. Judge John Russo Jr. said in a response released Friday that removing him would be excessive and unprecedented because the court has never removed Read More…
TROY, Ala. (AP) – Authorities say an Alabama corrections officer arrested on drug charges planned to buy methamphetamine and take it inside the prison where he worked. The Department of Corrections says 26-year-old Corey McClendon of Louisville worked at Easterling prison in Barbour County. He was arrested a week ago in Troy. A statement from Read More…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Veteran academic leader Carol L. Folt was formally installed Friday as the 12th president of the University of Southern California, taking the reins of the institution snared in unfolding scandals involving allegations of sex abuse, drug use and bribery. Folt was presented a medallion representing the authority of the office during Read More…
MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) – One police officer was fatally shot and another wounded Friday after a vehicle chase north of New Orleans. At a news conference, Mandeville Police Chief Gerald Sticker confirmed one officer’s death and the other’s injury from gunfire in his community on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, near U.S. 190 and Read More…
Sen. Bernard Sanders is leading with Latino voters in the Democratic presidential race, found a Univision Poll released Friday. Mr. Sanders was the preferred candidate of 21% or Latinos registered to vote, followed by former Vice President Joseph R. Biden at 19% and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts at 15%, according to the survey. The Read More…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A federal judge has sentenced a Utah man to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to selling fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills that led to another man’s death. The Deseret News reported Thursday that 38-year-old Adam Hemmelgarn of Hooper was sentenced to 128 months imprisonment and three years’ probation Read More…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – A 24-year-old man was sentenced to 15.5 years for a fatal shooting in Wichita last year. Douglas Pete, of Wichita, was sentenced Friday in the death of 25-year-old Deonte Mitchell. Mitchell was found dead in February 2018 outside a Wichita home. He was shot in the back. District Attorney Marc Bennett Read More…
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) – A man drove an SUV into a suburban Chicago mall on Friday, sending frightened shoppers scurrying and plowing over a kiosk before he crashed into a clothing store and was arrested. Video posted on social media shows the black Chevy Trailblazer driving through the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg at around 2:30 Read More…
The population of Idaho’s death row has been slowly shrinking, in part because some previously condemned inmates have won appeals, been resentenced to life in prison or died of natural causes. More than 40 people have been sentenced to death in Idaho since the 1970s, but only three people have been executed during that span Read More…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – A northern Virginia man arrested this week on gun charges is a neo-Nazi who has bragged about committing racially motivated violence, authorities said Friday. At a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, FBI agent Shawn Matthews testified that Andrew Thomasberg, 21, joined Atomwaffen, a group that advocates racial holy Read More…
The conservative Alliance Defending Freedom is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that a new law in Arkansas gets college administrators off the hook in a free-speech spat with a student who was promoting her right-wing club. Administrators at Arkansas State University kicked Ashlyn Hoggard and another student off a patio in front of the school’s Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Americans accustomed to the feel of a rock-solid republic may be vexed by tremors in the body politic. Some of the bad vibrations are clearly the repercussions of the two predominant political parties arrayed in thunderous battle against each other. Building in intensity, though, is a throbbing sense that the nation is losing its Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: One of the questions in Philosophy 101 that leaves collegians scratching their chins asks: “If a tree falls in the woods, and there’s no one there to hear it, did it make a sound?” As it applies to presidential politics, the demise of coffee magnate Howard Schultz’s independent presidential campaign was marked by the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Washington, D.C.’s congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is perturbed by what she claims is a lack of interest in, and insufficient prosecutions of, so-called “hate crimes” on the part of the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. The U.S. attorney’s office handles most criminal cases in the city, so Ms. Norton has twice Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: New York, get ready for some traffic snarls. The 74th United Nations General Assembly opens this this week, with leaders of many of the world’s nations jetting into Midtown Manhattan for meetings, speeches and debate on issues ranging from the Kashmir crisis to climate to development financing. Global leaders from Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Thomas Jefferson said, “When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.” The nation could have benefited from such simple wisdom in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected president rather than Hillary Clinton. Her dumbfounded supporters numbering many millions flew into a rage and have yet to return to Earth. Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The world turns, but Iran won’t budge. Stuck on stubborn, the Islamic republic remains unmoved amid the currents of human affairs, affixed upon a singular goal: acquiring nuclear weapons. Now that the regime is hastening its deadly day of triumph, there is only one rational response: Resist until the moment when that terror-wielding nation Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Nobody ever said the Trump White House offered much in the way of job security. President Trump has just let go of his third National Security Adviser, John Bolton, joining prior White House casualties H.R. McMaster and Michael Flynn. Mr. Bolton had been in the post since April of last year. John Bolton, a Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: “Trust, but verify.” President Reagan appropriated and popularized this traditional Russian proverb, then used it to great effect in his nuclear negotiations with the Soviets. As Americans face another sorrowful anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, President Trump must remain mindful of the need for caution in his dealings with Afghanistan’s Taliban: Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Prognostication is a tough business, as anyone from Oracle of Delphi to Nostradamus to Nate Silver of the number crunching website “538” can tell you. We’re as hard pressed to predict the winner of next weekend’s NFL games as we are presidential elections that won’t occur until months from now. But as the Democratic Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The rules of modern warfare are changing. The folks who still believe victory goes to the side that “gets there the firstest with the mostest” need to step aside in favor of the strategists who realize it’s new technologies, applied appropriately, that will provide the margin of victory. This isn’t a radical idea. History Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The secret ballot dates back literally thousands of years; even the ancient Greeks voted anonymously on matters such as ostracism. (Today, of course, most ostracism takes place in full view in the sewer that is social media.) The secret ballot protects all of us and our democratic rights by allowing citizens to express their Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: September 5 marks the first anniversary of an unprecedented opinion column in The New York Times, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” written anonymously, that left Washington tongues wagging for weeks after its publication. With Democrats and much of the mainstream media hailing the column — and unnamed columnist — Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: For coastal Floridians and some of their neighbors to the north, it’s a September to remember. Hurricane Dorian’s roaring winds have sent millions to scour store shelves in search of generators, flashlights, bottled water and dry foodstuffs. Millions more have lined up to fill up their SUVs before fleeing up the interstates for shelter Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Montgomery County, Maryland, just north of the District of Columbia, is known for leafy neighborhoods, stellar schools and high incomes. (It’s the 17th-highest earning county in the entire nation, according to the latest census data.) But lately, Montgomery County is garnering national attention for something rather different — a succession of horrific crimes committed Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: That haunting laugh echoing through the corridors of Washington officialdom is the sound of vindication emanating from one James B. Comey. Free from the threat of prosecution by the legal system for which he once stood, the fired former FBI director has validated the hoary adage that it’s better to be lucky than good. Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Somebody must have broken the brake handle on the cultural crazy train. With no way to slow down the dizzying changes in conventional values, the needle on the gauge measuring virtue and vice is spinning wildly. New ways of thinking have always fueled the advancement of civilization, but free-wheeling change threatens to send the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Liberal Democrats have long vilified the so-called “1 percenters,” but now some of them are coming to their defense, after a fashion. In this case, however, the “1 percenters” aren’t left-wing billionaires, such as George Soros and Michael Bloomberg, who pre-emptively inoculated themselves against the class-warfare criticism of the Democratic Party’s left-wing base by Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: In just about any industry, having a market share of 92 percent would plainly constitute a monopoly. (In fact, according to some economists, any time a company commands more than 25 percent of a given market, it can begin to exert anti-competitive pressure.) And that’s the position that the search giant Google finds itself Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Americans are losing their taste for Chinese, but not those savory dishes served with chopsticks. Rather, it’s a distaste for China’s behavior resulting from the worsening conflict over trade that is causing frowns. From its refusal to compete fairly in the international marketplace to its apparent failure to halt the flow of deadly synthetic Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: America is getting pooped, thanks to trend-setting California. There is no getting around the fact that the Golden State is at the forefront of a defecation crisis which is already overflowing into neighboring states. The Left Coast has become the home of the homeless, the nation’s lost souls who apparently have settled for simply Read More…