Tens of thousands of people wanted by law enforcement officials have been removed this year from the FBI criminal background check database that prohibits “fugitives from justice” from buying guns, the Washington Post reports. The names were taken out after the FBI in February changed...
The failure of a fuel pump and engine left the Silver Cloud adrift as it headed toward Antarctica on November 20, 2017, according to the Telegraph newspaper in London. Power was reportedly restored to the ship in about an hour, permitting the Silver Cloud to return...
South Carolina will not have the drugs necessary to carry out its first execution in six years of a man convicted of murdering a police officer, reports The State. Bobby Wayne Stone, 52, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on December 1 for...
A Tennessee judge who agreed to shave time off inmates’ sentences if they agreed to receive vasectomies or other forms of birth control was publicly reprimanded by Tennessee judicial regulators, The Tennessean reports. In its letter of reprimand, the Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct suggested...
Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, should resign over an alleged sexual harassment scandal, his home-town Detroit Free Press says in an editorial. The newspaper calls him an “undisputed hero of the civil rights movement” but also an “aging...
Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate is the nation’s highest and more than double the average. It is the result of tough sentencing laws, zealous prosecutors, and a lack of alternatives to prisons, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Female imprisonments in the state rose 30 percent between...