Tag: State Courts

In this March 14, 2017, file photo, Craig Hicks, charged with the murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C., listens to with attorney Steve Freedman as he makes an appearance in a Durham County courtroom in Durham, N.C.

Man pleads guilty to 2015 murder of three Muslim students

Zach Halaschak · June 12, 2019 4:22 pm

In this March 10, 2014, photo, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips decorates a cake inside his store, in Lakewood, Colo.

Masterpiece Cakeshop faces third discrimination suit

Zach Halaschak · June 11, 2019 5:48 pm

The Government Accountability Office says we might not be ready for a digital Census in time for 2020. (iStock)

Quest for family keepsakes thrust GOP adviser’s daughter into political storm

Melissa Quinn · June 8, 2019 4:00 am

Scot Peterson, center, leaves the Broward County Jail after posting bond, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Peterson, who was the assigned resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has been charged with 11 criminal counts after failing to confront the gunman in the Parkland school massacre. At left his attorney Joseph DiRuzzo.

‘Coward of Broward’ free on bail after arrest for inaction during Parkland mass shooting

Zach Halaschak · June 6, 2019 8:48 pm

In this Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, Barronelle Stutzman, left, a Richland, Wash., florist who was fined for denying service to a gay couple in 2013, smiles as she is surrounded by supporters after a hearing before Washington's Supreme Court in Bellevue, Wash.

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Liberals won a battle today on religious liberty, but it might cost them the war

Ryan Everson · June 6, 2019 8:37 pm

Barronelle Stutzman, left, a Richland, Washington, florist who was fined for denying service to a gay couple in 2013, smiles as she is surrounded by supporters after a hearing before Washington's Supreme Court, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, in Bellevue, Wash. Stutzman was sued for refusing to provide services for a same sex-wedding and says she was exercising her First Amendment rights, but justices questioned whether ruling in her favor would mean other businesses could turn away customers based on racial or other grounds.

Washington court sticks by ruling against florist in gay wedding case

Melissa Quinn · June 6, 2019 6:26 pm

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Parents forgive man who threw their five-year-old son off Mall of America balcony

Grayce McCormick · June 4, 2019 5:06 pm

Fotis Dulos, 51, and his girlfriend Michelle Tronconis, 44, are pictured.

Husband of missing Connecticut mother of five and his girlfriend are charged with ‘tampering with evidence’

Zach Halaschak · June 2, 2019 5:57 pm

FILE - In this May 17, 2019 file photo, Teresa Pettis, right, greets a passerby outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis. Pettis was one of a small number of abortion opponents protesting outside the clinic on the day the Missouri Legislature passed a sweeping measure banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood says Missouri's only abortion clinic could be closed by the end of the week because the state is threatening to not renew its license, which expires Friday, May 31.

Judge rules Missouri’s last abortion clinic will remain open — for now

Cassidy Morrison · May 31, 2019 8:45 pm

Protestors gather outside the Senate Chamber prior to a vote on the death penalty at the State House in Concord, N.H., Thursday, May 30, 2019. New Hampshire, which hasn't executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, on Thursday became the latest state to abolish the death penalty when the state Senate voted to override the governor's veto.

New Hampshire abolishes death penalty after state Senate overrides GOP governor’s veto

Zach Halaschak · May 30, 2019 4:33 pm

Hillary Clinton, former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, pauses while speaking at the New Yorker Hotel in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. In the hours after Donald Trump's election as the 45th president of the United States, Republicans in Congress claimed a mandate for their agenda to revamp financial rules and replace Obamacare, and Clinton urged her supporters to give him a chance to govern.

Washington Supreme Court says ‘faithless’ electors can be fined $1,000 for not voting for Clinton

Melissa Quinn · May 24, 2019 8:30 pm

Helenmary Ball, left, of Calvert County, Md., as "Maryland District 5," points toward the separated area of Maryland District 3, being represented by Bobby Bartlett, right, as nonpartisan groups against gerrymandering protest in front of the Supreme Court, Wednesday, March 28, 2018, in Washington where the court will hear arguments on a gerrymandering case. The Supreme Court is taking up its second big partisan redistricting case of the term amid signs the justices could place limits on drawing maps for political gain.

Supreme Court halts drawing of new congressional maps in Michigan, Ohio

Melissa Quinn · May 24, 2019 7:36 pm