Indiana State

Mountain View, CA

Ohio State

CINCINNATI (CN) — A nearly unanimous Sixth Circuit upheld U.S. Supreme Court precedent Thursday and rejected calls by Senate Republicans to remove limits on coordinated spending between political parties and their candidates. Vice Presidential candidate and Ohio Senator JD Vance, former Ohio Representative Steve Chabot and the National Republican...

Sixth Circuit torpedoes Republican First Amendment challenge to coordinated expenditure limits

Georgia State

Fulton County, GA

ATLANTA (CN) — A hearing was scheduled Thursday to determine whether officials including Fani Willis, lead prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, must comply with a subpoena from a state Senate committee. Then, the hearing was abruptly put on hold. Fulton County Superior...

Trump prosecutor Fani Willis fights subpoena from GOP-run state Senate committee

Chicago, IL

CHICAGO (CN) — Chicago property owner BBLI Edison's lawsuit against the city floundered in federal court on Friday, with a judge unconvinced by its arguments against a pro-renter law. "Because BBLI cannot show a likelihood of success on the merits, irreparable harm, or a lack of adequate remedy at...

Federal judge skeptical of landlord challenge to Chicago tenant-protection ordinance

Florida State

ATLANTA (CN) — A private Christian school’s First Amendment rights were not violated when the Florida High School Athletic Association refused to allow it to broadcast a prayer over a stadium’s public address system before a 2015 championship football game, an 11th Circuit panel said on Tuesday.

11th Circuit upholds ruling against Florida Christian school proposing a public pregame prayer

San Francisco, CA

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Victor Viera-Chirinos, a high-level drug trafficker who fled to Honduras to avoid prosecution three years ago, was sentenced to 82 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco on Wednesday morning. Chirinos, 42, was among 14 defendants accused of being...

Tenderloin drug trafficker gets 82 months in prison for role in large dealing operation

Los Angeles County, CA

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Herbie J Pilato

Actor Van Johnson, who died in 2007, was one of Hollywood's ideal films idols. In the 1940s, the charming screen icon was box office gold, and remained a popular presence on TV in shows like Murder, She Wrote (which starred his good friend Angela Lansbury).

The Secret Gay Life & Horrific Car Accident of Actor Van Johnson: 16 Years After His Tragic Death

Idaho State

BOISE, Idaho — A federal court in Idaho protected the rights of two trans inmates who sought an injunction against a state law against using public funds on gender-affirming medical procedures. They win an injunction narrowly tailored to their situation: they, and other gender-dysphoric people who are incarcerated and prescribed hormone therapy, may receive their hormone treatments.

Gender care for Idaho prisoners

Douglas, GA

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A man out on probation for drug charges less than a year ago and a woman from Douglas were recently arrested following a search at a local apartment. On August 7, 2024, at around 1:00 PM, Detectives from the Coffee County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit were conducting a proactive narcotics patrol in Douglas. During their patrol, a detective spotted 30-year-old Christopher Lamar Hawkins, who had outstanding warrants for fleeing police and methamphetamine possession, driving a white 2021 Kia Sorento. Hawkins was stopped in front of apartment 203/204 on N Wheeler Ave, where two detectives approached him. Breanna Henderson, 33, then came out of apartment 203 to "investigate what was going on with Hawkins" and appeared to whisper with Hawkins during his arrest. The report states that Henderson, who temporarily lived with Hawkins, began whispering with him "presumably about nefarious activities due to Hawkins's previous history with drug distribution and evading law enforcement."

Douglas Man and Woman Arrested Following Drug Bust and Search at Apartment

Colorado State

Uncovering Florida

Today, Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration for failing to provide public documents requested through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing. The March 2024 FOIA request sought records related to policies allowing the release of dangerous criminal illegal aliens from U.S. prisons into the general population rather than deporting them.

FL Attorney General Sues Biden-Harris Administration Over Release of Criminal Illegal Aliens

Maine State

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Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

South Carolina State

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A criminal defendant did not need to be advised that he would face mandatory deportation and a permanent ban from the country if he entered an Alford plea to criminal sexual conduct with a minor, ruled the South Carolina Court of Appeals. His counsel should have explicitly advised the man of the immigration penalties, but the defendant did not show how this omission prejudiced him, as he still would have taken the plea and its lesser sentence even if he was told this.

Bad lawyering, but no relief

Boulder, CO

BOULDER, Colo. (CN) — Insanity is the only plausible reason a 21-year-old Colorado man opened fire at a Boulder grocery store, killing 10, defense attorney Sam Dunn argued in opening statements Thursday at the Boulder County Justice Center. A jury will soon decide whether they agree — or whether...

After insanity plea, man who killed 10 at Boulder grocery store goes on trial

Booneville, MS

Mississippi News Group

Written with artificial intelligence assistance. The Prentiss County Grand Jury has handed down indictments against two Booneville residents on charges of child endangerment, according to the Prentiss County Sheriff’s Department.

Two Women Indicted for Child Endangerment

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials reported Thursday, pointing to a shrinking number of high school students who are using Elf Bar and other fruity, unauthorized e-cigarettes. The latest survey numbers show the teen vaping rate...

Teen vaping hits 10-year low in the US

Atlanta, GA

ATLANTA (AP) — An autopsy was performed Friday on rapper Rich Homie Quan, but his cause of death won't be given until further tests are completed, officials said. Georgia's Fulton County medical examiner said the examination had been completed a day after Quan, whose legal name is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died in an Atlanta hospital at age 33.

Autopsy performed on rapper Rich Homie Quan, but cause not yet revealed

Los Angeles, CA

L.A. TACO

After Curtis Wallace was sentenced to 46-years-to-life in prison nearly two decades ago, for a shooting he has always maintained he did not commit, he made his family a promise: one day he would make it home in one piece.

‘I’m Innocent:’ He Was Stabbed In Prison After Nearly 20 Years, Will D.A. Gascón’s Policies Help Free Him Before It’s Too Late?

Pennsylvania State

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — A medical student might well be right that the National Board of Medical Examiners’ method of scoring exams is discriminatory against those with disabilities, ruled a Pennsylvania federal court. Nevertheless, the Americans with Disabilities Act does not give the courts power to reshape how medical licensing exams are graded, so the student’s request for an injunction or restraining order is denied.

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Tioga County, NY

MANHATTAN (CN) — A 23-year-old murder case saw the light of day in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, when a former New York district attorney argued he should be granted immunity from malicious prosecution charges for putting the wrong man behind bars. Michelle Harris was 35...

Ex-New York DA fights to duck malicious prosecution claims from decades-old murder case

According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

Salem, OH

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

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Challenge to Indiana judge selection prompts racial divide in Seventh Circuit responses

CHICAGO (CN) — The Seventh Circuit on Thursday heard arguments over an effective racial division in Indiana's judicial election laws, which elicited widely different reactions from...

Challenge to Indiana judge selection prompts racial divide in Seventh Circuit responses

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