Gloucester, Massachusetts, school Superintendent Ben Lummis says he was disappointed when he heard a teacher had mocked a 12-year-old student for voicing support for President Donald Trump during a classroom discussion of the presidential debate. The teacher asked if anyone supported Trump, and Jackson Cody raised his hand. “Well, Mr. Jackson, I thought I liked […]
A Boca Raton woman, who wasn’t named by local media, spent hours alone in her cell at the Broward County, Florida jail, screaming in pain as she gave birth to a son. The woman, whom public defenders say suffers from “acute mental illness,” had been charged with burglary. The incident happened just three months after […]
When Geauga County, Ohio, Juvenile Court Judge Timothy J. Grendell ordered two teenage boys to resume visitation with their estranged father, they refused. So Grendell had them locked up in a juvenile detention center for the weekend instead. This concerned Geauga County Sheriff’s Lt. Gary Gribbons so much that he wrote to the sheriff saying […]
Nicholas Beauchene, a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier in New Jersey, has been charged by with one count of delay, secretion, or detention of mail and one count of obstruction of mail. Prosecutors say Beauchene discarded mail, including 99 absentee ballots on their way to voters. Read More Article from Latest – Reason.com Charles Oliver
Some British physicians are criticizing Health Secretary Matt Hancock for saying the National Health Service could suspend cancer treatment if coronavirus grows “out of control.” The charity Breast Cancer Now estimates some 8,600 women may have undetected breast cancer because the National Health Service suspe Read More Article from Latest – Reason.com Charles Oliver
When Dade City, Florida, police found Gwen Donahue, a 74-year-old dementia patient who had wandered away from her nursing home, they made sure to run her name through their database They found she had a warrant from nearly a decade ago, and rather than return her to her nursing home, they arrested her. Donahue’s daughter […]
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, District Attorney David Prater has charged two former detention officers and their supervisor with cruelty to a prisoner and conspiracy. Prater says the three forced inmates to listen to the song “Baby Shark” for extended periods of time. “It was unfortunate that I could not find a felony Read More Article from […]
A spokesman for the Milton Keynes town council in England has apologized after a staff member of the Crownhill Crematorium reprimanded a man who moved his socially distanced chair to comfort his mother during a funeral service for his father. The council operates the crematorium. “We are sorry to have upset this family,” the spokesman […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to ban homeschooling and to impose government control on religious and cultural institutions and sports associations. Macron says the moves will be part of a draft law he will introduce later this year to combat radical Islam and religious separatism in France. Under his prop Read More Article […]
