“I cried and hollered when I got the news,” Tarrant County resident Crystal Mason told reporters Friday morning, less than 24 hours after a Texas state appeals court overturned her conviction and five-year prison sentence for illegal voting. The yearslong legal battle over one uncounted provisional ballot appeared to draw to a close Thursday evening […]
Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett often link arms on cases, particularly when it comes to abortion and reproductive rights. And these two Donald Trump appointees with similar backgrounds and sensibilities shared a distinct concern Tuesday during oral arguments over Food and Drug Administration regulation of the abortion pill mifepristone: Whether any doctor had […]
A former police officer convicted of killing an unarmed Black man in DeKalb County in 2015 has now had his convictions overturned. The Georgia Court of Appeals announced Tuesday the decision to overturn a lower court’s ruling against for police officer Robert Chip Olsen, who shot and killed Anthony Hill at a DeKalb County apartment […]
HODGEMAN COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — A semi that overturned Sunday afternoon has closed Kansas Highway 156, about 2.5 miles east of Jetmore. The Hodgeman County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to please avoid the area if possible. This embedded content is not available in your region. Salon, thrift store destroyed in Winfield fire Sheriff […]
A driver died after their vehicle overturned early Friday in Kansas City. Officers responded around 1 a.m. to a crash at the intersection of Linwood and Van Brunt boulevards, according to Sgt. Phillip DiMartino, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department. A stolen gray Ford F150 refused to stop for officers, who stopped their […]
CLAY COUNTY, Mo. — Around 8 a.m. on Friday, deputies were called to a crash on NE 192nd St. near Outer Road W, southeast of Holt. Upon arrival, they found a 2013 Toyota Camry off the roadway, overturned and on fire. Initial investigations revealed it was a one-vehicle crash and the driver was the only […]
Multiple lanes of Interstate 75 in Madison County will be blocked off for several hours Thursday due to an overturned tractor-trailer, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. The incident happened in the northbound lanes of the interstate at mile-marker 83 near Berea. At approximately 12:30 p.m., the transportation cabinet said the left and middle lanes […]
Three former subpostmasters have had their decade-old convictions quashed at the Court of Appeal, taking the total number of quashed convictions due to the Horizon scandal to 100. On Thursday, Allen Reynolds, Nilufar Ali and Davinder Bangay were cleared of their convictions for theft or fraud, each dating back to between 2008 and 2011, court […]
The Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former Jackson police detective in the 2019 death of a man who was pulled from a vehicle while officers were searching for a pastor’s killer. In acquitting Anthony Fox of culpable negligence manslaughter, a majority of the appeals court wrote that prosecutors failed […]
New York City police officers will be required to record the apparent race, gender and ages of most people they stop for questioning under a law passed by the city council, which overrode a veto by Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday. The issue was thrust into the national spotlight in recent days when NYPD officers […]
The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, upended women’s reproductive rights and led to confusion and fear about the status of abortion access across the country. Part of that chaos stemmed from “trigger laws” in 13 states, which had implemented legislation that was ready and […]
This week, the Supreme Court heard two cases that have the potential to upend our government function as we know it. If the Supreme Court overturns the 40-year-old doctrine known as Chevron deference, it would drastically shrink the power of federal agencies to regulate much of anything at all. Which means that private businesses and […]