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A ground mural depicting a portrait of Breonna Taylor is seen at Chambers Park, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. The mural honors Taylor, a 26-year old Black woman who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment. The artwork was a team effort by the Banneker-Douglass Museum, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, and Future History Now, a youth organization that focuses on mural projects. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Black Lives Matter
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Former Louisville cop pleads guilty in Breonna Taylor case

A former Louisville police detective who helped write the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor's apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy.

3 years ago

A truck drives near a population sign in Mulberry, Arkansas
National
Policing

3 Arkansas police officers suspended after video captures beating

The video shows one officer punching the suspect with a clenched fist, while another can be seen hitting the man with his knee.

3 years ago

Glass containers display varieties of marijuana for sale on shelves
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Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Commonwealth Court orders Pa.’s health department to release information on medical marijuana program

For more than a year, the Department of Health has fought to block Spotlight PA’s request for information about the state’s medical marijuana program.

3 years ago

Gov. Whitmer addresses the state during a speech in Lansing
Crime
National

Delaware man found guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, in a plot prosecutors described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war.

3 years ago

The entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach, Fla. estate is shown on Aug. 8, 2022, the day of the FBI's search there. (Terry Renna/AP)
NPR
Crime
Government Accountability

Trump asks for a ‘special master’ to review Mar-a-Lago evidence

The legal action is the first from Trump's attorneys since FBI agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago.

3 years ago

File photo: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner speaking at a press conference on Monday, August 22, 2022. (Tom MacDonald / WHYY)
Crime
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Philly DA Krasner applauds high bail after family feud ends in gunfire

Larry Krasner doesn’t like cash bail for non-violent offenses, but for gun crimes he believes the sky should be the limit.

3 years ago

File photo Gary Busey arrives at the premiere of ''Machete Kills'' at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Criminal Justice
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Horror film convention promoter speaks after Busey charges

A horror movie convention promoter says it is assisting authorities following charges against actor Gary Busey involving alleged sexual offenses at a recent event in N.J.

3 years ago

Sen. Lindsey Graham sits in a chair and appears to wave to an audience.
Elections
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Court puts on hold Graham’s testimony in Ga. election probe

A federal appeals court has agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court’s order requiring that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham testify before a special grand jury.

3 years ago

A view from below of the Camden Federal Courthouse
Law
New Jersey
Politics

N.J. courts make changes to jury selection process; advocates push lawmakers to do more

New Jersey Supreme Court said the changes will make jury selection more equitable and expand the pool of eligible jurors.

3 years ago

File photo Gary Busey arrives at the premiere of ''Machete Kills'' at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Criminal Justice
Movies
New Jersey
6abc

Actor Gary Busey facing sex offense charges stemming from incident at South Jersey hotel

Police in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill said Saturday that the 78-year-old Busey was charged the day before with criminal sexual contact and harassment.

3 years ago

File photo: Insurrectionists loyal to former President Donald Trump breach the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.  (John Minchillo/AP)
NPR
Community Events
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Pennsylvania

Pa. woman accused of stealing Pelosi’s laptop gets a house arrest break for Ren Faire

Riley Williams is typically only allowed to leave her mother's house for work, court proceedings or approved outings.

3 years ago

Brandan ‘Bmike’ Odums’ mural of Albert Woodfox in New Orleans, Louisiana. (via Amnesty International)
Radio Times
Incarceration
Law
Policing

Bonus Interview: Albert Woodfox’s decades in solitary confinement

Albert Woodfox died this month at the age of 75. In 2019, we talked about solitary confinement in US prisons and the mental and physical effects on incarcerated people.

Air Date: August 20, 2022 10:00 am

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File photo: Attorney General William Barr appears before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Government Accountability
Law
National
Politics

Panel rules Barr’s Justice Department improperly withheld memo in Russia probe

The department had argued the memo represented the private deliberations of its own lawyers before any decision had been formalized, and was therefore exempt from disclosure.

3 years ago

Diane Foley, mother of James Foley (foreground) accompanied by (from left) Paula and Ed Kassig, the parents of Peter Kassig, Marsha Mueller, the mother Kayla Mueller and her sister Lori Lyon, speaks to members of the media after the sentencing of El Shafee Elsheikh at the U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Criminal Justice
International

Islamic State’s infamous British national gets life term for U.S. hostage deaths

A jury found him guilty of hostage taking resulting in the deaths of Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.

3 years ago

This June 23, 2011, file booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James ''Whitey'' Bulger. Three men, including a Mafia hitman, have been charged in the killing of Bulger in a West Virginia prison. The Justice Department announced the charges against Fotios
Crime
Criminal Justice
National

3 charged in 2018 killing of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger

Bulger was beaten to death at USP Hazelton in October 2018 hours after he was transferred from a prison in Florida, where he had been serving a life sentence.

3 years ago

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