The FBI is looking into possible civil rights violations in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County jail, where six people have died this year over three months, reports Cleveland.com. Whether the inquiry was prompted by the deaths is unclear. Conditions at the jail, where the population exceeds capacity...
A disabled Vietnam veteran and disbarred lawyer who had boasted about his rifle-shooting prowess is the man suspected of shooting seven law enforcement officers near Florence, S.C., killing one of them, the Charleston Post and Courier reports. Frederick Hopkins, 74, was taken into custody after...
It’s been more than a week since a St. Louis police officer shot a 15-year-old boy they say was armed with a gun, leaving him critically wounded. Beyond that, the department hasn’t said much else, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. What kind of gun was...
No lawyer should assume their firm’s technology is secure. In this episode of The Digital Edge, hosts Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway talk to Lucian Pera about the ethics of lawyers using the cloud and how they can use it with confidence. They break down...
San Francisco police officers targeted 37 black people with arrests for selling “small amounts of drugs” because of their race, six arrestees contended in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, Courthouse News Service reports. The arrests took place in a joint operation with the U.S. Drug...
The president of Interpol, a former senior Chinese security official, has been reported missing after he traveled to his native country at the end of September, the Associated Press reports. Meng Hongwei’s wife reported Friday that she had not heard from her 64-year-old husband since...