This article was originally published on The Huffington Post by Nina Golgowski on January 10, 2017. A Michigan man is speaking out after he was slapped with a ticket for leaving his car running unattended in his girlfriend’s driveway so it could warm up. Taylor Trupiano, 24, said he was away from his car for about seven minutes last […]

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post by David Lohr on January 10, 2016   A Texas man says a false positive field drug test resulted in not only his arrest, but significant embarrassment and a bogus reputation as a “drug lord.” “I was wrongly accused for this and I’m going to do everything in my power

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post by Mary Papenfuss on January 2, 2016  Police say a 15-year-old boy fatally shot a high school student in the bedroom of her Maryland home Sunday. He also shot her mother before turning the gun on himself, authorities say. The boy survived a bullet wound to the head but is

This article was originally published on The Washington Post on January 4, 2017 by Matt Zapotosky CHARLESTON — Six weeks after he shot and killed nine people at a Charleston church, Dylann Roof lamented in a jailhouse journal that he could no longer go to the movies or eat good food. But he still felt the massacre was “worth

A motorcyclist probably thought he made a clean getaway after swiping a cellphone from a truck driver in China last month. He almost certainly didn’t expect to see the same truck driver later that morning, standing in the middle of the road, “High Noon” style. As the speeding bike approached, the trucker didn’t back down. He delivered a

In a controversial change to the criminal justice sentencing system in Pennsylvania, judges will now be authorized to award longer penalties for individuals who they believe, according to sociological data, are most likely to offend again. While it can have some practical purposes to combat unnecessary future crimes, this is overall a dangerous practice that

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post by Jenna Amatulli on Dec. 29, 2016  Adnan Syed, the man whose murder conviction was at the heart of the hit podcast “Serial,” will not be released on bail.  The Circuit Court for Baltimore City denied Syed’s motion for release pending appeal on Wednesday. The judge denied the motion “because of

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The number of U.S. executions fell to a quarter-century low in 2016 as new death sentences plummeted, indicating capital punishment is on the decline, a study released on Wednesday showed. The number of U.S. executions in 2016 was 20, the lowest since 1991, according to the study from the Death Penalty

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post by Mary Papenfuss on Dec. 27, 2016 Chicago continued its horrifying parade of violence over the Christmas holiday with 57 shootings and at least 12 dead. Several surviving victims were seriously or critically injured and battling for their lives, the Chicago Tribune reported. The gun violence from Friday to Monday evening surpassed the steep

High school students in Plymouth Meeting, PA, were participants at an assembly earlier this month on the dangers of sexting or sending sexually explicit photographs through their cell phones to students or others. While this lesson has likely been transmitted before, this law enforcement run assembly focused also on the legal ramifications of minors sending photographs