The anti-narcotics police arrived in the heart of Colombia’s cocaine industry last month to destroy the coca crop. The community was determined to save it, the Los Angeles Times reports. Roughly 1,000 farmers, some armed with clubs, surrounded a hilltop camp that police had set...
P&O Cruises Senior Vice President Paul Ludlowon posted a comment on the P&O Facebook page announcing the cancellation of a cruise aboard the Oriana (voyage X801). P&O says that the Oriana will "undergo three week technical maintenance from January 6 2018." Mr. Ludlowon writes that "as...
Spend even a little time in Brooklyn’s Kings County Criminal Court, and a pattern quickly emerges. An arrested person is brought before a judge to be arraigned. A prosecutor asks the judge to set bail. The judge, without asking whether the defendant can afford the...
Like many other cities, New York wants to reduce its jail population and repeated lock-ups of low-level offenders. The city’s latest attempt to address that goal centers around a bold idea that could be modeled nationwide: Do away with all jail sentences of less than...
Calls to rape crisis centers are surging around the U.S. amid an unprecedented public outpouring of survivors’ stories about sexual misconduct, the Washington Post reports. Managers of crisis hotlines say the barrage of news implicating men in some of the most powerful positions in Hollywood, politics...
Oscar Pistorius’ prison sentence was more than doubled to 13 years and five months, the Associated Press reports. It was a surprisingly dramatic intervention by South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeals in the Olympic athlete’s fate after the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Justice Willie...