California will release around 8,000 prison inmates early in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus in state correctional facilities, with more than half expected to return to society by the end of July, officials said Friday.The move will allow prisons to use the extra space to impose social distancing rules, isolation and quarantine…
A federal judge in Indiana on Friday halted the first federal execution in nearly two decades over concerns the victims’ families could not attend due to the coronavirus.Chief District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson ruled that 47-year-old Daniel Lee’s scheduled execution on Monday would be delayed after the family of his victims said doing so would put…
Weather Authority: As Fay departs, scattered showers continue overnight FOX 29's Scott Williams has the latest. PHILADELPHIA - Tropical Storm Fay made landfall Friday afternoon just north-northeast of Atlantic City, N.J., the National Hurricane Center stated in its 5 p.m. advisory. The storm's winds have weakened a bit to 50 mph sustained, with higher gusts.…
Medical staff wearing full PPE push a stretcher with a deceased patient to a car outside of the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on June 30, 2020 in Houston, Texas.Go Nakamura | Getty ImagesReported coronavirus-related deaths appear to be on the rise in Florida, Texas, California, Arizona and some other states…
July 10, 2020 | 4:53pm President Trump was expected to announce as early as Friday night that he would commute Roger Stone’s sentence — just days before his longtime political adviser was due to report to prison to serve 40 months, Fox News reported. Stone is set to report to prison on Tuesday. He was…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…