Tag: Legal proceedings
Drake Bell pleads guilty to felony endangerment charge
CLEVELAND — Drake Bell, the former star of the popular Nickelodeon show “Drake & Josh,” pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges relating to a...
Rapper Phipps paroled; long claimed innocence in death case
NEW ORLEANS — Rapper McKinley “Mac” Phipps has been released from prison after being granted parole in the case of a 2001 shooting at...
High court declines to hear Indiana vote-by-mail limits case
INDIANAPOLIS — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case challenging Indiana’s vote-by-mail restrictions, a rebuff that means a federal court will...
Iowa court blocks mandatory waiting period for abortion
An Iowa judge blocked a state law that would have imposed a 24-hour waiting period before women could get abortions, likely setting up a...
Man pleads guilty to threatening candidates Biden, Harris
BALTIMORE — A Maryland man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to threatening now-President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris before last year’s...
More changes made to Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy plan
DOVER, Del. — The latest bankruptcy plan filed by the Boy Scouts of America increases the contributions from the BSA and its local councils...
15 GOP governors urge release of Census redistricting data
Fifteen Republican governors sent a letter Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Commerce urging that the U.S. Census Bureau release redistricting data as soon...
Sons of Confederate Veterans sue to return Georgia monument
DECATUR, Ga. — The Sons of Confederate Veterans group has sued to return a 30-foot-high (9-meter) obelisk to a site in front of a...
Turkish businessman arrested in scheme with Utah polygamists
SALT LAKE CITY — A Turkish businessman has been arrested by the U.S. Justice Department in connection with what authorities say was a biodiesel...
Judge tosses most claims over clearing protesters in DC park
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has dismissed a majority of the claims filed by activists and civil liberties groups who accused the Trump administration...
