Former Kansas Congressman Steve Watkins has entered into a diversion agreement with the Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office to avoid a criminal trial in the voter fraud case that came to define his brief tenure in Congress.
Watkins’ prosecution will be deferred for six months. If he adheres to its the terms, the case will be dropped by September. If he doesn’t, the DA’s office can revoke the agreement.
Hundreds of alumni responded with emails to university President Jay Hartzell after they assumed a student effort to have the university part ways with its racist alma mater "The Eyes of Texas'' had seeped onto the football field.
A prosecutor declined to file charges Tuesday against a suburban Detroit man who displayed a Ku Klux Klan flag in his window next to the home of a Black family, saying the “horrible conduct” doesn’t violate Michigan law.
As President Joe Biden urges Democrats to remain united against poison pill amendments that may come up in an hours-long, overnight vote-a-rama later this week, Republicans are preparing to make the final hours of the Democratic efforts to pass their relief bill politically painful and physically exhausting.
Mayors and county judges in some of Texas’ largest urban areas criticized Gov. Greg Abbott over his decision to lift the statewide face mask mandate next week, saying it contradicts health officials’ advice as infections continue to spread throughout the state, which averaged over 200 reported deaths a day over the last week.
Maj. Gen. William Walker testified that he had National Guard troops at the ready and sitting idly for hours on January 6th before he was finally given authorization to send them into the field. Walker said that the delay was caused at least in part over concerns of the optics of sending uniformed troops to the scene.
Nearly double the allotment of wolves were killed, even after tribal leaders decided not to hunt their portion. Wisconsin’s gray wolf hunt was a perfect storm of factors that resulted in 216 wolves being killed, 82% above the quota set at 119 by wildlife officials.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/... The family of every Chicago Public Schools student, regardless of income or citizenship status, is set to receive more than $450 in the mail this month — plus hundreds more next month — to support food expenses.
Wisconsin’s gray wolf hunt was a perfect storm of factors that resulted in 216 wolves being killed, 82% above the quota set at 119 by wildlife officials.
The family of every Chicago Public Schools student, regardless of income or citizenship status, is set to receive more than $450 in the mail this month — plus hundreds more next month — to support food expenses.