Six years after request, FBI turns over file of convicted, long-deceased associate of Burl Cain

Louisiana's Department of Public Safety and Corrections regularly violates the Constitution by holding people in custody beyond their release dates, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice found during a two-year investigation. For a time last year, more than 1 out of every 4 inmates released had been held too...

A teacher dismissed in a row over transgender pronouns has been arrested after he returned to the school.Enoch Burke, previously jailed after failing to observe a court injunction banning him from attending Wilson’s Hospital school in Co Westmeath, Ireland, when he was suspended from work, was informed last Friday of his dismissal from his position as teacher.The evangelical Christian was suspended from work on full pay last year pending the outcome of a disciplinary process, after a number of incidents stemming from the transgender row.Mr Burke voiced on several occasions his opposition to a request from the secondary school’s...

The Chichijima Incident, also known as the "Murasaki" incident, was a real historical event that occurred during World War II in which American airmen were captured by the Japanese and killed.

54 Year old former NY Counterintelligence Agent for the FBI, Charles McGonigal was Arrested on Monday and charged with 4 felony counts of violating Russian Sanctions. Charles McGonigal is a former top FBI counterintelligence agent. He was also once the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York and was heavily involved in trying to uncover evidence against former President Donald Trump during the now-infamous Trump-Russia collusion investigation.

In 1968, when she was barely 11 years old, Mary Bell was found guilty of the murder of two little boys in England. The case received extensive media coverage and sparked great public indignation. Bell killed Martin Brown, 4, by strangling him in a vacant home in Newcastle upon Tyne's Scotswood district in May 1968. She carried out a similar murder one month later on three-year-old Brian Howe. Bell was detained and accused of the killings along with Norma Bell, a 13-year-old accomplice (not related to Bell).

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely. The surprise premiere of a documentary revealing "shocking new allegations" of sexual crimes committed decades ago by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sparked new calls on Monday for Senate and Justice Department investigations.

A video that four men hoped would exonerate them of the rape of a Louisiana State University (LSU) student has instead proven that a crime did occur, according to a judge – hours after an attorney for two of the suspects claimed it shows the late 19-year-old had consented to sex.Kaivon Deondre Washington, 18; a 17-year-old male who has not been named due to his age, Everette Lee, 28; and Casen Carver, 18; have been charged with the rape of 19-year-old student Madison Brooks, before she was struck by a car and killed.Brooks, a 19-year-old Alpha Phi sorority sister,...

Richneck Elementary School administrators were warned three times that the boy may have had a gun in the hours before the shooting, a lawyer alleged.

A truck driver sued Grand Isle on Tuesday over an ordinance that he says suppresses free speech and stops him from flying flags emblazoned with vulgar insults aimed at President Joe Biden. Ross Brunet, a contractor from Cut Off, says he works on the island regularly and has repeatedly flown...

A New Orleans judge ruled Wednesday that defense attorneys failed to prove the jury pool for all pending cases had been unconstitutionally drawn to exclude people convicted of felonies, even though they had already been dismissed from serving over allegations of improper jury summons. “There has been no testimony that...

I’ve been trying to get Madison Brooks’ face and name out of my head for days, unsuccessfully. College students drinking excessively shows poor judgment but it is not criminal. It’s a mistake many college students make. Leaving your friend behind to drink with four strangers is poor...

Louisiana's governor has denied the clemency request of a man jailed for plotting the murder of Barry Seal, a drug runner and federal informant who worked to bring down Colombian cocaine lords before he was killed in the parking lot of a Baton Rouge halfway house in the 1980s. Bernardo...