President Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Kyle Reardon, a federal magistrate judge and former prosecutor, to fill the last of three federal judge positions for the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. Trump announced the nomination on social media on Tuesday, as well as picks for federal trial courts in Texas, Florida, […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — A second attempt to open the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school landed in an Oklahoma courtroom on Wednesday in what could be another step toward returning the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue Wednesday was whether the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board acted constitutionally when it twice denied […]
COLUMBIA — A South Carolina prison guard, inmate and three relatives of the inmate pleaded guilty Wednesday to wire fraud in a bribery case, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Lowanda Atkinson, a 52-year-old guard at Lee Correctional Institution, accepted more than $550,000 from inmate Jason Brown and his relatives over the course of nearly […]
SHREVEPORT, La. — Federal grand juries have formally indicted two men in connection with investigations tied to the April 19 mass shooting in Shreveport’s Cedar Grove neighborhood that left eight children dead.
