An early November shooting in St. Louis has been reclassified as a homicide after the victim died. The change brought the number of homicides in St. Louis so far this year to 185. Last year on the same date, the city had 165 homicides, the...
When the Justice Department said it would significantly scale back its collaborative reform initiative to monitor local police departments and reorient it toward more hands-off “technical assistance,” the decision reflected the Trump administration’s approach to law enforcement: crack down on violent crime, don’t regulate the...
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Hundreds of victims of the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting have filed five lawsuits in Los Angeles Superior Court. The largest of the suits names 450 plaintiffs. Among those being sued are MGM Resorts International, owner of the Mandalay Bay resort; Live Nation, organizer of...
Baltimore, which has by far the highest per-capita homicide rate among biggest U.S. cities, is on track to have its worst year on record, the Wall Street Journal reports. More than 300 people have been killed this year. Home to 615,000 people, the city has...
When you work with text, as you certainly do in law, you often need to be able to compare one text to another easily and quickly. Like lawyers, software developers routinely compare different versions of text (source code, not legal documents) as they work—but the...