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  • Court: Wisconsin Bell discriminated against worker

    Court: Wisconsin Bell discriminated against worker

    National News 03/25/2017

    A Wisconsin appeals court says state labor officials properly determined that Wisconsin Bell's decision to fire a bipolar employee amounted to discrimination. According to court documents, Wisconsin Bell fired Charles Carlson in 2011 for engaging in ...

  • Court bars release of videos made by anti-abortion group

    Court bars release of videos made by anti-abortion group

    National News 03/24/2017

    A federal appeals court on Wednesday barred the release of videos made by an anti-abortion group whose leaders are facing felony charges in California accusing them of recording people without permission in violation of state law. The 9th U.S. Circui...

  • Lawmakers want Supreme Court review of voting law continued

    Lawmakers want Supreme Court review of voting law continued

    National News 02/26/2017

    North Carolina Republican legislative leaders want the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the new Democratic state attorney general's bid to dismiss their appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down a voting law based on racial bias. Lawyers the Genera...

  • US appeals court upholds Maryland assault weapons ban

    US appeals court upholds Maryland assault weapons ban

    National News 02/24/2017

    Maryland's ban on 45 kinds of assault weapons and its 10-round limit on gun magazines were upheld Tuesday by a federal appeals court in a decision that met with a strongly worded dissent. In a 10-4 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ric...

  • Court: Police executing 'no-knock' warrant before shooting

    Court: Police executing 'no-knock' warrant before shooting

    National News 02/14/2017

    Court documents show Hickory police were executing a "no knock" search warrant when a police officer was shot in the arm by a suspect who was shot and killed. WSOC-TV in Charlotte reports documents showed that police were concerned that one of their ...

  • Kenya court blocks closing of world's biggest refugee camp

    Kenya court blocks closing of world's biggest refugee camp

    National News 02/11/2017

    A Kenyan court ruled Thursday that the government must not close the world's largest refugee camp and send more than 200,000 people back to war-torn Somalia, a decision that eases pressure on Somalis who feared the camp would close by the end of May....

  • Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    National News 01/16/2017

    An appeals court in Norway is considering whether the prison conditions under which mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being held amount to a violation of his human rights. The six-day trial ended Wednesday in a makeshift courtroom inside Skien ...

  • Circus operator agrees to plea deal in tent collapse

    Circus operator agrees to plea deal in tent collapse

    National News 01/07/2017

    Court records show a Florida-based circus operator has agreed to a plea deal following a tent collapse in New Hampshire in 2015 that killed two people and injured dozens.   The Caledonian-Record in Vermont reports details of the plea deal involv...

  • South Korean executives jailed for humidifier cleaner deaths

    South Korean executives jailed for humidifier cleaner deaths

    National News 01/06/2017

    A South Korean court sentenced the former head of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser to seven years in prison Friday after the company's disinfectant for humidifiers killed scores of people and left hundreds with permanent lung damage. The Seoul Central District ...

  • 29 Turkish police officers in court for coup trial

    29 Turkish police officers in court for coup trial

    National News 12/27/2016

    Twenty-nine Turkish former police officers went on trial on Tuesday accused of aiding the failed military coup in July — the first trial in Istanbul over the attempt that led to some 270 deaths. Renegade officers in Turkey's military used tanks, figh...

  • Man who fired shots in DC pizza parlor expected in court

    Man who fired shots in DC pizza parlor expected in court

    National News 12/16/2016

    Family members noticed a change in the man charged with firing an assault rifle in a Washington pizza parlor after he hit a 13-year-old pedestrian with his car in October, his parents said. Edgar Maddison Welch shifted from energetic and outgoing to ...

  • Supreme Court takes up cases about race in redistricting

    Supreme Court takes up cases about race in redistricting

    National News 12/06/2016

    The Supreme Court is taking up a pair of cases in which African-American voters maintain that Southern states discriminated against them in drawing electoral districts. The justices are hearing arguments Monday in redistricting disputes from North Ca...

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