This article was originally published in The New York Times on November 29, 2016 by Adam Liptak WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of the way Texas decides who must be spared the death penalty on account of intellectual disability, with several justices indicating that the state’s standards were either too strict or too arbitrary. But there […]

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post on November 29, 2016 by Nina Golgowski A child custody swap between two grandmothers led to a shootout outside of a Dallas Walmart that left one woman wounded, authorities said. The two women met to transfer custody of their mutual grandchild around 5:30 p.m. Sunday. An ensuing argument

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post on November 14, 2016 by David Moyer  Police in Anchorage, Alaska, are asking for help in finding … a ninja? A person dressed head-to-toe in ninja gear broke into Bosco’s, a comic book store, on Friday after it was closed, according to UPI.com. The intruder slinked around the place before stealing

An Indiana mother is facing felony charges after being accused of injecting feces into her son’s IV bag while he was undergoing cancer treatment. Tiffany Alberts, 41, allegedly said she did it because she’d hoped it would result in her 15-year-old son being moved to a different hospital unit that offered better treatment, according to

This article was origionally published on The Huffington Post on November 18, 2016 by Nick Wing It was just another day at the office for Harris County Magistrate Joe Licata. A row of defendants sat before him on a May afternoon this year, packed knee-to-knee on a bench in the Houston courtroom. With machine-like efficiency, Licata called them

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post on David Lohr on November 18, 2016.  An Alabama father was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week after pleading guilty to murder to protect his daughter ― the latest development in a complicated, years-long story of sexual abuse, violence and revenge. Jay Maynor of Cullman, Alabama,

This article was origionally published on www.erienewsnow.com on Nov 18th by Emily Matson The three suspects, charged for their role in a deadly shootout earlier this year, made their way into court Friday. The judge bound over all charges to trial, for each defendant. During their preliminary hearing, as Judge Dominick DiPaolo ruled all charges for each defendant would

If you’ve been pulled over by a police officer, they need to have probable cause to have done so. However, a law last year reduced some additional liberties that Pennsylvania drivers had long enjoyed, including the right for their cars to remain private during the stop, unless the officer had an additional probable cause to

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Friday, November 18, 2016 The investigation into the shooting death of an Erie man in a westside neighborhood in April never turned up the gun that the fatal shot came from, an Erie police detective said. But a shell casing found inside the residence of a

This article was originally published www.irishexaminer.com on November 8, 2016 Angelina Jolie Pitt will continue to have sole custody of her six children with Brad Pitt in a joint agreement reached by the actors. The agreement calls for the former couple’s six children, who range in ages from eight to 15, to continue to have “therapeutic visits”