Politics
Brickbat: Raising Cane
[ad_1] In Indonesia’s Aceh province, which enforces strict Islamic sharia law, a woman and her partner were each publicly caned 140 times in a…
Tag: punishment
Boston, Massachusetts Local News
Advocates seek to ease license suspension rules
[ad_1] BOSTON — Massachusetts is among a minority of states where you can lose your driver’s license for unpaid parking tickets, tolls and other…
Politics
After deinstitutionalization, America’s mental health system struggles to protect the public
[ad_1] One of the charming, if bizarre, discoveries I made living in New England was its constellation of splendid, thoroughly abandoned mental institutions. They…
Boston, Massachusetts Local News
NY man pleads guilty to rape charges
[ad_1] SALEM — A New York man pled guilty to charges of rape, open and gross lewdness, and distributing obscene matter to a minor…
Boston, Massachusetts Local News
Killer in 1987 Salem murder granted parole
[ad_1] BEVERLY — A man who was serving a life sentence for a 1987 execution-style murder in Salem has been granted parole, despite the…
Boston, Massachusetts Local News
Timeline of the case
[ad_1] 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…
Sacramento, California Local News
Texas school legally punished Black student over hairstyle, judge says
[ad_1] A Black high school student’s monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new…
Politics
Review: Exposing a broken juvenile court system
[ad_1] In Rutherford County, Tennessee, kids as young as 7 years old were getting thrown in jail for incredibly minor offenses—stealing a football or…
US News
Column: Tinkering with Prop. 47 won't lower crime. Fixing San Quentin will
[ad_1] In 2020, after the tragic murder of George Floyd, there was a moment when it seemed as if America, California included, was ready…
Humor
Cheney Offers to Waterboard Trump – Ralph Lombard, Humor Times
[ad_1] 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…