A 9-year-old child with special medical needs from Billings is being held at the Havre Border Patrol Station after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol made an unlawful arrest earlier this month, according to a petition filed in the U.S. District Court of Montana. Federal agents detained parent Adrián Espinoza De La Cruz and the child […]
Residents in Huntington angered over their city council’s approval of a $2.1 million contract with Flock Safety to install license plate readers, cameras and more throughout the city are organizing a weekend-long canvassing campaign later this month to collect the signatures for their ballot initiative petition. The residents, led by Huntington Community Action Group, a […]
Lincoln City Council and Nebraska’s leading Republican consulting firm clash in the court of public opinion.
(The Center Square) – An Aurora grassroots group seeking to give city voters the ability to recall the mayor and alderpersons at large has submitted nearly 9,000 petition signatures in an effort to place two referendum questions on the November ballot.
On Tuesday, a Yellowstone County District Court judge upheld the state’s largest county’s decision to invalidate a proposed ballot initiative that would have required two-thirds of the residents’ approval before constructing a data center. With the window for signature gathering all but closed to make the ballot deadline in 2026, the first major legal challenge […]
While the nation faces various stress tests for the rule of law upon which our country was built, Missouri courts are facing their own stress test in the hot mess of our current congressional redistricting. Our Legislature redrew our congressional maps in 2025 at the insistence of President Donald Trump. The chief aim was to […]
Ohio’s local governments cannot fast-track new data centers without giving specific reasons, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week. The decision put an Ashville referendum, which would strike down the village council’s approval of a local data center project, back on track to make Ashville’s ballot. It also makes municipalities that pass future emergency resolutions […]
A Virginia resident is asking a Prince William County district court to order the state’s superintendent of public instruction to demonstrate how the Virginia Department of Education defines the term “genocide” in the state’s K-12 history curriculum. Prince William resident Gene Sokolowski filed a FOIA lawsuit in his county district court, alleging that Superintendent of […]
Midwest Innocence Project attorneys argue a Kansas City, Kansas, man was unjustly convicted of murder and attempted murder in a 2009 barbershop shooting.
Lux Claridge isn’t who you’d expect to be busted for disorderly conduct. The 37-year-old high school physics teacher is soft spoken and has quick green eyes beneath a mop of brown hair. Wearing a yellow tee promoting a bicycle festival in northwest Arkansas, a pair of pale blue shorts, and with one blue sock and […]
