Maine's corrections commissioner has ordered state prison workers to stop making women remove their bras to go through screening to visit inmates. Commissioner Joseph Fitzpatrick says he didn't know that women were being required to remove undergarments after the bras apparently set off metal detectors.
The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration. Clouded up, is the possibility the United States government might have monitored the Trump campaign and any contact it had with the Russian government.
Thanks to the Tweeter In Chief, the internet is abuzz today with talk of wiretapping, McCarthyism, FISA courts and Russian spying. The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration.
... to collect taxes in the first place, but the IRS isn't having it. No matter what you read on the Internet or your weird Uncle Bob says, you can't get out of paying taxes without suffering consequences. "The IRS and the courts hear many outlandish ...
Driven from every corner of the earth. . . direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.
The 34-year-old Floridian was arrested early yesterday on a warrant charging him with violating terms of a probation sentence imposed following his guilty plea to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge. As Fletcher was being booked into the Duval County lockup in Jacksonville, jailers discovered that he had a large stash of the antidepressant Alprazolam.
Trump's telling a gathering of conservatives that "as we speak today, immigration officers are finding gang members, drug dealers and criminal aliens and throwing them the hell out." His declaration comes the day after he and one of his Cabinet secretaries offered clashing takes on the nature of the deportation push.
President Trump takes questions from reporters during a news conference in the East Room of the White House. Trump denied any wrongdoing by his administration in regards to Russia.
If you thought Jeff Sessions ' path to become Donald Trump 's Attorney General was dramatic, you haven't been paying attention to politics in Sessions' home state of Alabama, where Republican Gov. Robert Bentley is facing impeachment charges related to a sex scandal, the House Speaker just went to jail for corruption, and a former Democratic governor was released federal prison yesterday on different corruption changes. Rising mostly above the chaos has been Attorney General Luther Strange, a two-term Republican who, at 6'9, is known to most in the state as "Big Luther."
A Pennsylvania lawmaker called President Donald Trump a "fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon" on Twitter Tuesday because Trump reportedly joked he would "destroy" the career of a Texas state senator for introducing legislation on civil asset forfeiture. Hey @realDonaldTrump I oppose civil asset forfeiture too! Why don't you try to destroy my career you fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon! Daylin Leach, a state senator representing a large portion of the area right outside of Philadelphia, also wrote the same message on Facebook, while linking to a Politico piece about Trump's meeting with several sheriffs in Texas.
A Pennsylvania lawmaker called President Donald Trump a "fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon" on Twitter Tuesday because Trump reportedly joked he would "destroy" the career of a Texas state senator for introducing legislation on civil asset forfeiture. Hey @realDonaldTrump I oppose civil asset forfeiture too! Why don't you try to destroy my career you fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon! Daylin Leach, a state senator representing a large portion of the area right outside of Philadelphia, also wrote the same message on Facebook, while linking to a Politico piece about Trump's meeting with several sheriffs in Texas.
'Jailed for protesting' read one of the posters at the Vigil as we gathered in outrage at the arrest of Pastor Evan Mawarire, leader of #ThisFlag movement who was pounced on by a gaggle of CIO people at Harare airport when he arrived back on Tuesday. BIZARRE seems to be the headline of choice for some websites to grab your attention.
Update: Courtney Plante has taken a plea agreement in regard to attempted-murder allegations against her and significant other Sean Overstreet dating back to January 2016, when she was nineteen and he was 37. The deal trims time off Plante's possible sentence but doesn't let her off the hook for a crime against a former teacher of hers that was as violent as it was bizarre. According to the original arrest affidavit, Overstreet stabbed Michael Brown multiple times while Plante allegedly encouraged him via comments such as, " Go get him, Sean ."
JANUARY 17--A Pennsylvania couple is facing disorderly conduct charges after a cop caught them Sunday afternoon having sex in a car while two children were seated in the rear of the vehicle. According to the Pennsylvania State Police, a passerby called 911 to report that "two people were having sexual intercourse" in a car parked outside an outlet mall in Gettysburg.
Drake is saluting President Barack Obama... Just because some of the families of the nine people killed and three people who survived a racist massacre in a Charleston church have forgiven the man convicted in the shootings doesn't mean they think his... Families of the nine people killed in a racist massacre at a South Carolina church have expressed a broad range of feelings when it comes to how the convicted killer should be punished. Lawyers for Texas death row inmate Christopher Wilkins looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him from becoming the first prisoner executed in the nation this year.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee and terror suspect David Hicks leaves court in Adelaide after a pre-trial conference over an assault charge. Picture: AAP/Rick Goodman David Hicks was charged with assaulting his partner and he responded to media waiting for him outside an Adelaide courthouse.
... 176 quarters should "require the taxpayers to pay close to 1,000,000 quarters to imprison him for 12 years." Legally Weird delves into the world of strange legal happenings, odd laws and legal curiosities of all types . Have a comment or tip? Write ...
The Hastens workshop in Koping, Sweden, liberally using the phrase "master artisans" recently, unveiled its made-to-order $149,900 mattress. Bloomberg News reported in December on Hastens' use of superior construction materials such as pure steel springs, "slow-growing" pine, multiple layers of flax, horsehair lining , and cotton covered by flame-retardant wool batting.
If their owner could not be found within six weeks, there was a high chance the rule of finders keepers would apply. Russell Vale 'zombie' stops car dead.
In this Dec. 14, 2016 photo, Henry Atencio, who has been promoted to the director of the Idaho Department of Corrections following the departure of Kevin Kempf, speaks in Boise, Idaho. Idaho's new director of Correction aims to keep prison reforms going.
It's essential that we hear the cry that black lives matter just as much as any others, and respond with solutions that foster equality and justice. We know that disparities and prejudice are not limited to police shootings, but the young black man followed in a store on the discriminatory assumption that he must be a shoplifter, or the African-American missing child who won't get the same crucial press coverage as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl.
It's a paradoxical moment in the history of the death penalty in the United States. The number of executions has dwindled to just a few, but the voters, even in the most liberal states, seem to want the punishment to remain on the books.
Tragedy as one woman is killed and a four-year-old girl is left in critical condition after 100-foot tree falls on California bridal party, trapping guests as they lined up for a group photo The Saddam interrogation: Ten years after the tyrant's execution, the CIA agent who grilled him reveals the shattering truth... that everything the US thought it knew was WRONG Savour your sweets, drink tea and watch the wine: How to slash your sugar intake this Christmas without scrimping on your favorite treats 'Life threatening' arctic blast chills northern United States with temperatures dropping to minus THIRTY - as forecasters warn of heavy snowfall and frostbite risk Singer CeeLo Green says 'he's alive and well' after shocking CCTV footage showing the moment a cellphone explodes in his face goes viral U.S. more than doubles its reward for information leading to capture of ISIS leader ... (more)
A person dressed in a clown costume stands amongst attendees during the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in Manhattan, New York, US, October 31, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Searches for selfies led to many bad decisions, an outbreak of creepy clown sightings chilled even horror maestro Stephen King, and a hard-fought campaign ended with the election of former reality TV star Donald Trump as president of the United States.