Brickbat: Raising Cane
In Indonesia’s Aceh province, which enforces strict Islamic sharia law, a woman and her partner were each publicly caned 140 times in a town square for having sex…
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Advocates seek to ease license suspension rules
BOSTON — Massachusetts is among a minority of states where you can lose your driver’s license for unpaid parking tickets, tolls and other minor violations. But advocates want…
Read more Advocates seek to ease license suspension rulesAfter deinstitutionalization, America’s mental health system struggles to protect the public
One of the charming, if bizarre, discoveries I made living in New England was its constellation of splendid, thoroughly abandoned mental institutions. They occupied commanding heights in bucolic…
Read more After deinstitutionalization, America’s mental health system struggles to protect the publicNY man pleads guilty to rape charges
SALEM — A New York man pled guilty to charges of rape, open and gross lewdness, and distributing obscene matter to a minor on Monday in Superior Court…
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Killer in 1987 Salem murder granted parole
BEVERLY — A man who was serving a life sentence for a 1987 execution-style murder in Salem has been granted parole, despite the objections of the victim’s family…
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Timeline of the case
1990 Newlywed Pam Smart, then a 22-year-old media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, New Hampshire, plots with her teenage students to have her husband, Gregg Smart,…
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Texas school legally punished Black student over hairstyle, judge says
A Black high school student’s monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based…
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Review: Exposing a broken juvenile court system
In Rutherford County, Tennessee, kids as young as 7 years old were getting thrown in jail for incredibly minor offenses—stealing a football or pulling someone’s hair. Some kids…
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Column: Tinkering with Prop. 47 won't lower crime. Fixing San Quentin will
In 2020, after the tragic murder of George Floyd, there was a moment when it seemed as if America, California included, was ready to reform our broken and…
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Cheney Offers to Waterboard Trump – Ralph Lombard, Humor Times
Ex-Congresswoman wants to waterboard Trump to ‘get at the truth’ about January 6th. In a less-publicized section of Liz Cheney’s tell-all expose “Oath and Honor,” the former US…
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