The Department of Justice is adding 300 assistant U.S. attorneys to its rolls around the U.S., referring to the hires as the “largest increase in decades,” The Hill reports. DOJ said the move would “increase resources to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and...
Scot Peterson, then the school resource officer in Parkland, FL, waited outside while students at Stoneman Douglas High School were being shot in February, sparking national outrage, including a tweet from President Trump condemning his cowardly actions. Peterson has issued a public apology and explanation for...
Special counsel Robert Mueller accused Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, of tampering with witnesses ahead of his trial on charges involving illegal lobbying work. Prosecutors called for an immediate hearing to determine whether Manafort and an unidentified person repeatedly contacted two other people...
Dwight Lamon Jones, who police found dead Monday morning of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Scottsdale, Az., hotel room, is suspected in a string of shootings over the last week, The Arizona Republic reports. Before he started, Jones, 56, apparently created almost 10 hours...
Four mass shootings since last October, each with double-digit death tolls, has everyone searching for solutions. One goal that apparently most can support, regardless of their position on the gun-control/gun-rights continuum, is taking firearms away from those who are considered dangerous to themselves or others,...
Six years after aggressive surgery for pleural mesothelioma, Kay Kilpatrick-Simmons watched proudly as granddaughter Claire crossed the stage at Marymount High School to accept her diploma last month. Mission accomplished. The congratulatory hug was emotional — in more ways than one. Kilpatrick-Simmons, 73, already has beaten the odds,...