Cook County, IL

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Monroe County, FL

HuffPost

Florida county deputy Jennifer Ketcham, 40, is accused of accessing law enforcement databases to help her 19-year-old boyfriend.

Sheriff's Deputy Accused Of Warning Alleged Drug Dealer Boyfriend About Police Activities

Hinds County, MS

Law & Crime

Mississippi lawyer Daniel Dale was arrested Thursday after sheriffs in Hinds County said he tried to smuggle drugs — including marijuana — cellphones, a digital scale, cigarettes, cigar wraps and more contraband into a local detention center in an alleged conspiracy with two detainees.
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Attorney looks soaking wet after he's arrested for smuggling drugs, cellphones into prison

Sangamon County, IL

The Independent

 An Illinois deputy who last month fatally shot Sonya Massey in her home after she called 911 about a potential prowler, will remain in jail despite his release request, a judge ruled. The decision came the same day that Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell, whose department employed ex-deputy Sean Grayson, announced he would retire at the end of the month, despite resisting previous calls to step down.Grayson had asked the county court to reconsider an order from last month denying pre-trial release in his murder case, arguing the facility where he’s being held, Menard County Jail, would not provide...

Sonya Massey’s killer cop to stay in jail despite request for release to treat cancer as sheriff abruptly resigns

Texas State

Atascosa County, TX

Jourdanton, TX

New York Post

A 12-year-old Texas cheerleader died Monday, four days after she suffered mysterious “life-threatening” injuries that her parents tried to treat with smoothies and vitamins, authorities announced Wednesday. 

Jourdanton Junior High School student Miranda Sipps died in the hospital Monday night after her mother finally called for help when the preteen went into respiratory distress, the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office said.

The girl’s mother, Denise Balbaneda, and stepfather, Gerald Gonzalez, 40, were arrested for failing to seek medical help sooner for the girl during the four days while she was “mentally and physically incapacitated and non-responsive,” the sheriff said. 



The pair didn’t...

Texas cheerleader, 12, dies after parents tried to treat ‘life-threatening’ injuries with smoothies and vitamins: sheriff

Two men are arrested on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug following the discovery.

Drugs arrests after woman found dead

Illinois State

The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed off on legislation prohibiting landlords from retaliating against tenants who lodge code violation complaints against them.
                The Landlord Retaliation Act also bans landlords from terminating leases, increasing rent, decreasing services or threatening lawsuits in instances of such disputes, as well as bars them from refusing to renew a lease after a tenant comes forward with such a complaint or seeks assistance from an elected official related to one.
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Pritzker signs ‘Landlords Retaliation Act’ to mixed reaction

Chicago, IL

CBS Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A community on Tuesday mourned the death of a 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed near his home in Edgewater neighborhood this past weekend.Ashawn Davis, 13, was found at 8:16 p.m. Sunday with a gunshot wound to the head in an apartment in the 6000 block of North Kenmore Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood, near his home. He was rushed to Ascension St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where police confirmed Monday that he was pronounced dead.Ashawn's uncle, with whom he lived, is the founder of an antiviolence organization called No Kids Die in the Chi. Shawn Childs said Ashawn would often go with him to antiviolence events.Family and friends held a memorial and balloon release Tuesday near Ashawn's mother's house in the old Cabrini-Green area.It was still not clear late Tuesday why Ashawn was shot. No one was in custody in his death as of Tuesday night.


Family holds memorial for boy, 13, who was found shot dead in Edgewater apartment

Mississippi State

Parchman, MS

NBC News

Inside the sole unit without air conditioning at Mississippi’s largest prison, inmates hang wet sheets from their cell ceilings to dampen the air and lay drenched towels strategically across their bodies. A temporary reprieve comes from scoops of ice handed out twice a day. As punishing heat spreads across...

Inmates battle heat, mold and mice inside Mississippi's largest prison

New Jersey State

California State

The former president's latest attempt at an insult quickly backfired.

OOPS! Trump Accidentally Hands Kamala Harris And Gavin Newsom A Major Compliment

Morton Grove, IL

WKSC 103.5 KISS FM

Illinois Spot Crowned 'Best Fast-Food Restaurant' In The Entire State

Georgia State

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Douglas, GA

Daily Coffee Press

Last week, a 32-year-old was arrested on trafficking charges after allegedly fleeing from a traffic stop and abandoning the vehicle with a child in the passenger seat. The chase resulted in the discovery of 230 grams of methamphetamine, which the suspect allegedly threw out while fleeing on foot. According to local detectives, the vehicle the suspect was driving was registered to NFL football player Tyreek Hill.

Man Driving Vehicle Registered to Tyreek Hill Arrested on Drug Trafficking Charges in Douglas

The New Republic

California Governor Gavin Newsom has chosen cruelty, emboldened by the conservative Supreme Court.  Following the Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision on Grants Pass v. Johnson in June, which essentially criminalized homelessness, Newsom issued an executive order Thursday for the removal of homeless encampments throughout his state. Newsom urged local governments to destroy the encampments, where tens of thousands of unsheltered Californians live, “with urgency and dignity.”“We are done,” said Newsom. “It’s time to move with urgency to clean up these sites.”Local governments now have the tools they need to address the decades-long issue of homelessness.Today, we are issuing an executive order that...

Gavin Newsom Issues Cruel Order Over Supreme Court Homelessness Ruling

A young Chicago lawyer met a tragic end after making a fatal mistake while having some fun at an office party. Reginald Tucker, 29, was enjoying an early Fourth of July party at the Schuyler Roche & Zwirner law firm where he worked in 1984. Around 50 people had attended the celebration. At about 11pm, after most of his colleagues had left, Reginald and another attorney decided to race each other down a corridor with a marble floor.

Chicago lawyer plunged 39 floors to his death after making fatal mistake during office party

Ohio State

The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

The Illinois deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey in the face after she called to report a suspected prowler has been branded a “ticking time bomb” by her family’s lawyer. Former Sangamon County Deputy Sean Grayson is facing first-degree murder charges over the fatal shooting of 36-year-old...

Deputy who shot Sonya Massey was ‘ticking time bomb,’ family lawyer says

Nevada State

 One of three inmates killed in a Nevada prison brawl this week was a member of a white supremacist prison gang who was serving a life sentence for his role in the 2016 murder of a person incarcerated at another Nevada prison, authorities said Friday.The local county sheriff identified Anthony Williams, 41, as the third of the three people killed in Tuesday's fight at Nevada's maximum security prison in rural Ely. Nine other incarcerated people were injured.Prison and state officials have released few details since then, although White Pine County Sheriff Scott Henriod confirmed Friday that “all three decedents...

1 of 3 killed in Nevada prison brawl was white supremacist gang member who killed an inmate in 2016

CHICAGO, IL – Authorities in Chicago, Illinois are seeking the public’s assistance in finding a missing 15-year-old girl from the South Side. Heather Henry was reported missing on Monday after she was last seen in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Last Seen in Bronzeville. Heather Henry was last seen in...

Teen Girl Vanishes from Chicago’s South Side! Authorities on High Alert in Desperate Search!

Dolton, IL

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Adrian Holman

Back in April of this year, the Village of Dolton hired former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to investigate the spending of Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard during her two-year reign. The reason for the investigation was due to the Village of Dolton now being millions of dollars in debt along without having an audit done on Dolton's finances since 2021.

Mayor Tiffany Henyard has taken all of the money from Dolton

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Rising NewsNation journalist Grace Bentkowski has died at the age of 22.

Rising NewsNation Journalist Grace Bentkowski Dead At 22

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Cook County corrections deputy arrested for trying to smuggle drug-soaked paper into jail, officials say

CHICAGO - A Cook County corrections deputy was arrested Friday morning and appeared in court after dozens of sheets of paper soaked in illegal drugs were...

Cook County corrections deputy arrested for trying to smuggle drug-soaked paper into jail, officials say

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