Marissa Alexander fired a warning shot in her Florida home in 2010 to scare off her estranged, abusive husband. By 2012, Alexander as convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to 20 years in prison. A survivor of abuse, Alexander and ad...
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In the last twenty years, Texas has had a total of 363 exonerations granted, the highest total out of any state. Harris County alone accounts for most of those exonerations. The number of exonerations taken from The National Registry o...
Electric scooters are the new hip, green way to see cities, and for what it’s worth, they’re the most California thing seen in years. However, as far as safety is concerned, the scooters might not be doing so hot.
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The United States government has attempted to tackle the issue of human trafficking for decades. Unfortunately, Ohio is all too familiar with the problem of human trafficking. The state was ranked fourth nationally for number of cases of hu...
Despite frequent mass shooting within the last five years, the United States Congress has had little to no progress in passing gun reform laws. However, this fact may change soon after a recent announcement by Senate Majority Leader Mitch M...
In the past, those who had their guilt adjudicated for a sexual crime as an adult could still be required to register as a sex offender. However, the constitutionality of adult offenses based on juvenile actions may be challenged in O...
Hemp is a strain of the cannabis plant that has been grown and used for its fiber since before human civilization existed. The plant’s strong fiber can be used to create paper, textiles, clothes, food, and fuel among other things but ...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is the latest institution to have to defend itself after it allegedly allowed medical patients to be sexually assaulted on campus, not by other students, but by a UCLA OBGYN. Dr. James ...
Dallas County District Attorney, John Creuzot, joined the D.A.s of Houston’s Harris County, San Antonio’s Bexar County, and Austin’s Travis County in decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana. Dallas county wil...
The remains found in Arkansas just east of the Texas border have been confirmed to be that of 4 year old Maleah Davis, who had been reported missing in Houston since May 4th. The nation had been gripped by her disappearance and th...
For decades the war on drugs focused on arresting and punishing drug pushers and drug addicts alike. This often meant that children of drug addicts would be thrown into the tumult of being removed from their homes and placed in foster care ...
