WASHINGTON (AP) – A portrait of former Speaker Dennis Hastert has been removed from a hallway outside the House chamber. Just last week, the Illinois Republican pleaded guilty to breaking banking laws in a hush money scheme. The portrait has hung for years in the Speaker’s Lobby, a plush area just outside the chamber where…
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PITTSBURGH (AP) – “Dance Moms” star Abigale Lee Miller is to appear before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh to be arraigned on charges that she tried to hide $775,000 worth of income from the Lifetime network reality show and spinoff projects during her Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Miller’s defense attorney didn’t immediate return requests for comment…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A much-watched case headed to the Texas Supreme Court could have broad implications on the nation’s booming home-school ranks. At issue: Where do religious liberty and parental rights to educate one’s own children stop and obligations to ensure home-schooled students actually learn something begin? An El Paso family, the McIntyres, is…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson says the state will resume executions after a 10-year gap starting next month with a double execution. The Republican announced execution dates on Wednesday for eight death-row inmates. Arkansas hasn’t executed an inmate since 2005, largely because of court challenges to its lethal injection law and…
NEW YORK (AP) – New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady can suit up for his team’s season opener after a judge erased his four-game suspension for “Deflategate.” The surprise ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman came Thursday after more than one month of failed settlement talks between the NFL and its players’ union. Many…
BALTIMORE (AP) – An attorney for a convicted killer at the center of the popular podcast “Serial” has filed a motion arguing that cell tower data placing the man near the murder scene was inaccurate and should not have been introduced at trial. Justin Brown, an attorney for Adnan Syed, who was convicted in 2000…
