Well, it is official. It's happening. Yesterday I signed a contract to write a second edition of my book on photovoice.
I am in the throes of wrapping up the production of another book and finalizing yet another (more on that in the next few weeks), so of course it is time to commit to yet another mammoth project. [smile] I kid. Moving toward the one-year anniversary of this email…
Three GOP judiciary committee members, including Texas Rep. Chip Roy, accused District Attorney José Garza of maintaining policies that “undermined the rule of law.”
The escape caper collapsed when the inmates argued and one ratted out the other. Now both face more charges.
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In "What'd I Miss?" Ossie tries to grasp the overturned verdicts in the 2019 case in which a 23-year-old man died and two paramedics were convicted.
Richard Everett Camp Jr. faces up to 20 years in prison and must forfeit property and vehicles he bought.
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An Alabama man facing the death penalty by nitrogen gas was spared Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to set aside a lower-court ruling that found the method unconstitutional.
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The surge has largely remained under the radar, with many immigration arrests starting as police traffic stops.
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A Fort Myers man says facial recognition wrongly identified him as the person who tried to lure a child.
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Delaney Hall has been many things: a jail, a halfway house, a rehabilitation facility. For the past year, however, it’s been something more fraught: an ICE detention center and the site of ongoing clashes between federal law enforcement and protesters. Reporters aren’t allowed in, health inspections are rare, and congressional oversight has been obstructed—as my […]
The grand jury transcripts from the “Broadview Six” case, in which the federal government tried to charge six Chicagoans with felony conspiracy for their participation in an anti-ICE protest, were released this week, offering a rare look inside an aggressive federal prosecution. The Broadview case collapsed in late May amid prosecutorial-misconduct allegations, a month after […]
Sheriff Rob Hardwick said it is becoming harder to compete with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office to attract deputies.
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Andrew Richard Lukehart admitted to killing the 5-month-old child and throwing her body into a pond.
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These may be confusing and difficult times in America, but I consider myself pretty lucky. Most weekends, I get to hang out with an extraordinary group of people from around the country and see things their way. These folks are complicated, wise, and funny—and they’ve all been through a lot. There is Sammy from rural […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a few questions for the head of ICE. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Democrat sent a letter to David Venturella, the new acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, asking him to disclose any financial entanglements with the private prison giant GEO Group, where Venturella previously worked. GEO Group is a major […]
State prosecutors in Utqiagvik have charged a North Slope Borough employee with allegedly crashing a fuel truck while drunk. According to court documents filed May 13 in Utqiagvik, James Brown was driving on April 9 in Point Lay, a village on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, when he ran the fuel truck off the […]
If Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of election thief Tina Peters in hope of appeasing Trump and getting funding restored, he may wait a long time.
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On Friday afternoon, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued 35 pardons. He also commuted the sentences of nine prisoners, allowing them to be released years before they otherwise would be. Some of these acts of clemency were deeply controversial. Polis, a Democrat, shortened the sentences of multiple convicted murderers. He is also setting free Brandin Kreuzer, […]
Two Wasilla residents have been accused of a record-setting number of felonies and misdemeanors in connection with an alleged identity-theft spree that affected 41 people in multiple states. Alaska prosecutors filed 426 misdemeanor and felony charges on Saturday against Qalgilan Miller and 425 charges against Demi Rae McDonald, his alleged partner. According to records kept […]
One easy-to-resolve mystery of the Jeffrey Epstein case remains unanswered: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell transferred last year to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas, that houses mainly nonviolent offenders and white-collar crooks? This puzzling relocation occurred after Todd Blanche, then the deputy attorney general (and formerly Donald Trump’s personal attorney), traveled to…
Matthew Keirans met William Woods at a hotdog cart in the late 1980s, stole his identity, and lived as him for roughly three decades — pulling a six-figure salary as a hospital IT administrator, getting married (his wife didn't know his real name), and having a child who bore Woods's surname. — Read the rest
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A Kenai man is facing five felonies after being accused of letting a brush fire escape containment and start a wildfire near the Sterling Highway on the Kenai Peninsula last year. The Alaska Department of Law’s Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals filed those felonies and five misdemeanors against Keith Richard Crowder, 48, on May […]
A state judge in Anchorage has again delayed a new election misconduct trial for former state Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, R-Anchorage, after state prosecutors requested the postponement. Earlier this year, judges Catherine Easter and Thomas Matthews scheduled a new trial for June, but Judge Josie Garton agreed on May 1 to postpone the trial until the […]
Mary Malcolm was moved to take action after someone destroyed the original memorial to victims of the racial killings.
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Andrew Richard Lukehart was convicted of killing Gabrielle Hanshaw when she wouldn't lie flat to change her diaper.
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It’s unclear if the measures will be enough to offset the need for reopening one or two prisons
Experts say Armor Health should have sent inmate Brian Tracey to a hospital. Instead he died in jail.
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The US Department of Justice announced Friday that it plans to revive the firing squad as a method of killing in federal capital cases. In a 52-page memo, the department expanded the ways it can apply the death penalty to include using a group of executioners to simultaneously shoot at a condemned person. Taking action […]
Ex-fashion mogul and U.S. Special Envoy Paolo Zampolli has a long relationship with FashionTV, which Epstein nearly bought and whose founder Michel Adam Lisowski has been accused of multiple instances of sexual misconduct.
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A new court filing suggests Tyler Robinson was in police custody hours before he ‘confessed’ to Discord buddies and ‘surrendered’ to a cop friend. Is he a patsy after all?
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For Jacqueline St. Joan, the memoir "Your Verdict" was 35 years in the making, and served as a backdrop for much of her other writing as she honed her craft.