Prison guards and retired probation and parole officers with a concealed-carry permit can have their gun in schools and other generally off limits areas under laws signed by Gov. Rick Snyder.
A federal judge has ruled that a high school student and a parent can remain anonymous as they sue over a live Nativity scene that’s part of a northern Indiana school district’s annual Christmas show.
The ruling followed the passage of the Freedom Act two months prior – that is now supposed to force the NSA to stop warehousing telephone metadata starting on Sunday. The act allows the information to remain with phone companies, but unfortunately, it can still be searched by the government after authorization from a secret counter-terrorism court that has no public oversight.
The appendix has been dubbed a vestigial organ, thought to no longer perform any necessary function, but new research is supporting a previously proposed theory that it might still have a relevant purpose in the human body today.
The nonfiction-heavy reading regime has forced English teachers nationwide to ditch short stories, poetry and literary classics such as “Huckleberry Finn” and “The Great Gatsby” in favor of dry how-to manuals and dated dispatches from the Federal Reserve.
Siegel, who has 25 years of experience in the field of tobacco control, examined the study and found not only was it based on statements made by a small group of 16-17 year olds in one part of Scotland, but in no way did the study actually conclude that e-cigarettes are a gateway to smoking.
All told, some 325 messages in the new batch of emails were deemed “classified,” and one was deemed “secret.” Most of the classified messages were exchanged with fellow State Department employees, but a few of them were between Mrs. Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and others involved Sidney Blumenthal, a controversial confidante of the Clintons.
A group of lawmakers dreaming of bringing a professional sports team to northwestern Indiana is pushing a bill that would create a panel to pursue that goal.
What once appeared to be the killing of an officer in the line of duty turned out to be “a carefully staged suicide,” George Filenko, Lake County Major Crimes Task Force commander, said Wednesday.
When a police detective thinks he is dying and learns that his life insurance pays out more if he dies in the line of duty, he tries to make that happen.
Sacramento Police Chief Sam Somers said officers secured a warrant Tuesday and on Wednesday morning arrested James Tran, 28, during a traffic stop near his home in Elk Grove. The Sacramento County district attorney’s office has decided to file a charge of attempted murder against Tran, who Somers said has a record of past felonies.
Two Niagara Falls, New York, residents will be arraigned in November on charges that they left two children, ages 7 and 9, alone for an hour in August on a public beach, according to Orleans District Court records.
I wrote this post a long time ago on Myspace, and have used it regularly on my show. Every now and then someone requests it. So I figured I’d repost it here.
According to the New York Post, Rambler was heavily criticized for blatantly perpetuating a double standard, and he has not yet commented on the incident.
The student, whose name is being withheld by the Daily News, suffered a cracked, bloody lip and swelling and redness to his face when Hughes yanked off the tape at Intermediate School 292 in East New York, Cotto added.
The cellphone carrier announced Monday that all T-Mobile customers with a “Simple Choice” plan can now receive a free mini cell tower for their home. The 8.5-inch square gadget blasts out T-Mobile’s 4G-LTE network to a 3,000-square-foot radius.
Just a couple months ago, Bernie Sanders lambasted Uber as an “unregulated” company with “serious problems,” but financial disclosures by the Democratic presidential candidate reveal that whenever his campaign requires a taxi, they literally always turn to Uber.
push to overhaul the American justice system, President Obama has requested that former prisoners not be asked about their criminal histories when applying for a job. However, responsible gun owners are still expected to undergo a background check before purchasing a new firearm because Obama believes in fairness.
This week the White House announced a pending executive order instructing the Office of Personnel Management to, “delay inquiries into criminal history until later in the hiring process.”
CNBC’s Republican primary debate averaged 14 million viewers on Wednesday night, setting a new record for the business news channel but falling far short of the totals for two earlier debates this year.
Wednesday’s Republican debate turned into a steel cage match in Boulder, Colorado as Donald Trump tangled with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called on Marco Rubio – his political protege – to resign his U.S. Senate seat.
Jeb Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz got into a heated confrontation with a CNBC producer outside the debate as it was happening, according to two sources familiar with the incident.
Donald Trump has registered another victory after CNBC, the host of the next Republican presidential debate, caved to his demand for a shorter event which would include opening and closing statements.
GRAHAM: I’m tired of losing. Good God Look at who we’re running against. The number one candidate on the other side thought she was flat broke after she and her husband were in the White House for eight years. The number two candidate went to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon, and I don’t think he ever came back. If we don’t beat these people, then who the hell are we going to beat? Let’s win the election. Let’s solve problems.
New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie excoriated CNBC for its debate questions on fantasy football gambling and climate change.
At CNBC’s “Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate” on Wednesday, Senator Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina set the record straight on the so-called “war on women.” The rhetoric from the Democrats and, nearly uniformly, from the mainstream media, is that Republicans hate women and want them to die of rape, and Democrats love women and want them to have abortions for equal pay, or something along those lines.
During Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate on CNBC, Senator Marco Rubio (Fl.) excoriated the Florida newspaper The Sun-Sentinel and debate co-moderator Carl Quintanilla for raising questions about his young age and calls for him to resign from the Senate due to missed votes as examples of “a double standard” and “bias that exists in the American media today.”
Speaking to a national gathering of police chiefs on criminal justice reform Tuesday, President Barack Obama shifted the blame of Chicago’s gun related violence to the neighboring state of Indiana.
South Bend Common Council District 2 candidate Regina Williams-Preston owes about $77,000 in fees, penalties and back taxes relating to 10 properties she owns in the district she’s running to represent, the South Bend Tribune reported.
In a suit that brings together the Second Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), an Amish man filed a federal lawsuit in Pennsylvania last week because he wants to buy a gun without the required photo ID — and because getting that photo ID would violate his religious beliefs.
Vice President Joe Biden ended months of intense speculation about his political future on Wednesday with a sudden announcement that he wouldn’t seek the presidency, abandoning a dream he’s harbored for decades and putting Hillary Clinton in a stronger position to capture the Democratic nomination.
Law enforcement will have to adhere to new reporting requirements and meet a higher evidentiary standard for seizing and taking ownership of people’s property under laws signed by Gov. Rick Snyder.
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly skewered the left for actively opposing “Kate’s Law,” which would punish so-called “sanctuary cities” that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities and shield illegal immigrants. Senate Democrats blocked the law from advancing on Tuesday.
The electors are distributed among the 50 states according to each state’s population share based upon U.S. Census data. That means that states with a large number of illegal aliens and noncitizen residents end up with an inordinate number of electoral votes, according to Goldman and Rozell. And that helps Blue states, given that they house more residents from those two groups than do states that historically support Republicans.
An influential Republican conservative said at least one of Rep. Paul Ryan’s demands for becoming House speaker is a “non-starter” as the GOP gathered Wednesday morning to figure out if enough members can unite behind the young star.
