Jail Calls

Voters deliver clear messages

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:52 +0000

First Read: Tuesday’s results were largely expected but the margins in Indiana, North Carolina and even West Virginia were surprising.

Texas inmate piles up votes in West Virginia against Obama

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:52 +0000

Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary.

Cops: Man who abducted Tenn. family appears in video

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:52 +0000

Three days after a Tennessee mom and her three daughters went missing, the man suspected of killing two of them and kidnapping the other two appeared in a Guntown, Miss., convenience store surveillance videotape, his hair clipped short, officials said.

Concussion crisis growing in girls’ soccer

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:52 +0000

The number of girls suffering concussions in soccer accounts for the second largest amount of all concussions reported by young athletes, according to the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Kate Snow reports for Rock Center.

Judge: Zimmerman can keep money

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:52 +0000

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of wrongly killing Trayvon Martin, will not immediately have to turn over the $204,000 in donations to his website, a Florida judge said Friday.

Martin lawyer: Revoke bond

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:52 +0000

The attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family says $204,000 of donations is cause to put George Zimmerman back in jail.

The facts must decide the case

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:51 +0000

Mark NeJame says racism is so tangled up in the Trayvon Martin case that it’s easy to forget that facts must determine the outcome.

AG: Date of alleged sex assault shifts

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:51 +0000

Prosecutors say the alleged sexual assault of a boy observed by a former Penn State graduate assistant, a key witness in the child sex abuse case against Jerry Sandusky, took place about a year earlier than what was originally alleged, causing defense lawyers for two former Penn State officials to argue that one of the charges should now be dropped.

Army service shields Afghan suspect in stock case

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:35:20 +0000

The soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians is shielded from paying his part of a $1.5 million judgment in a stock scheme if he stays in the military, legal experts said.

Army examining mental health programs

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:35:20 +0000

The Army inspector general is conducting a system-wide review of mental health facilities to determine whether psychiatrists overturned diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder to save money, a move that comes as the case of a U.S. soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians has brought fresh attention to the strains of war.