While a person can’t be tried twice in criminal court for the same charges, they are not protected from civil claims arising from the same violent acts. Victims of domestic abuse have the right to file a civil lawsuit even when the abuser has been convicted in a criminal case. For exam...
What Assault? How Gangster No 1 Beat Court Rap with a Little Help from Some Forgetful Witnesses; How Gangster No 1 Beat Court Rap with a Little Help from Some Forgetful WitnessesSunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)Sunday Mail
You did your best at the time and to continue to beat yourself up over your past decisions is futile. I would know. The pain will always be there for us as mothers, and we will live with it. I just can’t continue to live with the guilt, shame and pain, so I am trying to ...
In repelling disinformation, Chinese and domestic, Taiwan offers an example to other democracies holding elections this year. This year , more than 50 countries that are home to half the planet’s population are due to hold national elections. From India to Mexico, the U.K. to Russia...
A tongue-in-cheek but semi-serious walker's guide to coping with extreme heat and humidity. Includes photos and description of Doha, Qatar, as only seen on foot.
Orange Krush’s drummer Trevor Gale remembered the dynamic like this (as quoted in Geoff Edgers’): “Larry was the guy who said, 'Play four bars, stop on the fifth bar, come back in on the fourth beat of the fifth bar.' Russell was the guy that was there that said, ‘I don’...
In other words, when you’re the CEO at home, you’re much less likely to ever come close to the C-suite at work: “It appears that being in charge of household decisions may bring a semblance of power to women’s traditional role, to the point where women may have less desire to...
GOP Rep. John Duarte beat Democrat Adam Gray byfewer than 600 votesin the Central Valley’s 13th Congressional District. They’re now headed for a rematch, with Duarte playing defense over abortion. Democrats aretargeting himon his own votes to limit access and the broad assault on overall ...
By Jonathan Rosenblum | Three years of rank-and-file Starbucks worker organizing has produced a historic union breakthrough: a commitment by the implacably anti-union company to bargain a national contract for 10,000 workers and negotiate a process for a
Hunter insists the photos showing bruising on Cayley don't point to foul play. John Hunter: By the time that the sexual assault nurse … photographs her … she has been resuscitated. Six times, I believe. Maybe eight. … She's had a chest tube inserted. She's had IVs placed on both...