Detroit police officials suspended an 18-year veteran officer and launched a criminal investigation into allegations he assaulted a naked mentally ill woman in Detroit Receiving Hospital after she spat on him and bit a security guard, the Detroit News reports. The alleged assault Wednesday was...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo took another step toward legalizing marijuana in New York, announcing a 20-person work group to draft legislation allowing for recreational use by adults, the Wall Street Journal reports. The announcement came after a state health department study that addressed the effects of...
Innocent victims continue to to be fatally wounded by private citizens with permits to carry concealed handguns, reports the Violence Policy Center, an advocacy group. Concealed handgun permit holders are responsible for 1,259 deaths not involving self defense since 2007, the center says. It offers...
Federal air marshals have closely monitored about 5,000 U.S. citizens on domestic flights in recent months under the controversial “Quiet Skies” program, but none was deemed so suspicious that they required further scrutiny, the Transportation Security Administration told a congressional briefing held Thursday, the Boston...
Austin, Tx., has taken a new tack in the ongoing war between “sanctuary cities” and federal immigration authorities. Declaring itself a “freedom city,” the Texas capital instructed its police officers to arrest fewer people for minor crimes in order to prevent their fingerprints from going...
A House committee investigating the opioid crisis is asking three drug makers to answer questions and provide documents about their internal practices, including when they learned prescription opioids could be addictive and how they have marketed the drugs, the Washington Post reports. The House Energy...