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Lawmakers and families of the victims of the deadly shootings last year at a Connecticut elementary school were divided Monday over compromise legislation that would ban some but not all high-capacity ammunition magazines in the state.Lawmakers announced Monday afternoon that they had reached a deal on a bipartisan measure designed to limit high-powered weapons, 3½ months after 20 children and six...
The murder of two Texas prosecutors is a reminder that officers of courts across the nation continually face threats that can be terrifying but are rarely carried out."It comes with the job," said Scott Burns, executive director of the National District Attorneys Association. "We all know that our jobs entail exposing ourselves to threats and risks."Burns, who was a prosecutor in Utah, said it wou...
If it weren't for a clerical error, Colorado's state prisons chief might still be alive today.Court officials acknowledged in a statement Monday that a processing error allowed the now-dead ex-con Evan Spencer Ebel to be released January 28 — four years before he was supposed to be.Ebel is suspected of killing Tom Clements, executive director of the state Department of Corrections, on March 19. C...
Connecticut lawmakers on Monday said they had reached an agreement on compromise gun control legislation that they said would be one of the toughest in the nation, 3½ months after 20 children and six other people were killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school.The bill includes a ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines like those Adam Lanza used to fire 154 shots in four 4 minutes Dec. 1...
It's April Fools' Day, and even the White House isn't above taking advantage of it. With the help of “Kid President,” the nation's executive branch took a little time from affairs of state to pull a prank.After announcing a “special video message from the president” on Twitter, the White House pulled a bait-and-switch on viewers.The video begins with an empty shot of the lectern used in the White ...
An official in the Texas county where a prosecutor and his wife were shot to death over the weekend said Monday that the ordeal was “surreal” and that authorities there were on alert.“We’re still in shock,” Kaufman County Judge Bruce Wood told reporters.District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were gunned down at their home outside Dallas on Saturday two months after another prosecu...
Powerball multi-millionaire Pedro Quezada appeared in a New Jersey courtroom on Monday and resolved a $29,000 debt for unpaid child support dating back to 2009.Quezada, a New Jersey bodega owner whose lucky numbers won him $338 million last week, appeared before a New Jersey superior court judge in Paterson at 1:30 p.m.A child support warrant against Quezada was temporarily stayed Saturday, a spok...
New York City workers would receive five paid sick days a year under a measure the New York City Council will vote on soon. The New York Times reports the paid sick leave bill is expected to pass with enough votes to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s promised veto.A powerful coalition of workers, unions and community groups mobilized around the issue that had been bottled up in the City Council. The groups were able to come to an agreement with Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn to bring the paid sick leave measure to a vote.
Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These rates reflect a marked rise over the last decade and could fuel growing concern among many doctors that the A.D.H.D. diagnos...
Move over, Mad Max. Step aside, Easy Rider. The Easter Bunny rules the road.A motorcyclist wearing a full Easter Bunny costume was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol early Saturday after officers on routine patrol spotted the costumed man traveling down Interstate 8 without a helmet, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.CHP Officer Adam Griffiths reportedly radioed: “I’m stopping the Easter Bunny....
