Closing a chapter in a criminal case that is considered symbolic of racial injustice in the early decades of the 20th Century, the Alabama parole board Thursday granted posthumous pardons…
Stopping and frisking certain individuals without initially having probable cause for an arrest is a controversial police tactic, albeit one approved by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark Terry…
A suburban Portland, Ore., resident learned she had been a victim of identity theft in 2008. That’s when an officer from the Clackamas County sheriff’s office stopped by Kimberly Fossen’s…
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has spent decades in a wheelchair since being shot on March 6, 1978 as he stood on the steps of a Georgia courthouse in which he…
Lawmakers in the Illinois house and senate OK’d same-sex marriage on Tuesday, setting the stage for the state governor to give the measure its final approval.
A New Mexico man claims in a federal lawsuit that he was forced to submit to three enemas, a colonoscopy, two X-rays and several cavity searches after he was pulled…
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