Category: Social

High school sweethearts Barbara Cotton and Curtis Brewer, in their 70s, tied the knot in Milwaukee, Wis., after having lost contact with each other for more than 50 years. During that time, the pair lived in different states and embarked on “separate life journeys,” a GoFundMe page reads. However, their happily ever after was coming. […]

Dozens of inmates convicted of terrorism-related crimes will be released from prison over the next five years, and lawmakers in several states think local law enforcement have the right to know if they’re moving into their neighborhood. That’s why officials are pushing for a new kind of registry, modeled after sex-offender registries that exist in most […]

SALT LAKE CITY — A woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart is living several blocks from a Salt Lake City elementary school following her release from prison in September, according to Utah’s sex-offender registry. Wanda Barzee, 73, is listed in the registry as living in an apartment near the school after her initial placement in […]

A 17-year-old illegal immigrant — behind bars on a murder charge — was released from a local North Carolina jail that just pulled out of an immigration screening program with Immigration Customs and Enforcement. Sergio Coello-Perez, a Mexican national, was released from the Mecklenburg County Jail Thursday after seven months in custody with a written […]

A transgender woman serving a 10-year sentence in Illinois for burglary was granted permission to move from a men’s to a women’s prison in a rare decision by state authorities, her lawyers said Thursday. Deon “Strawberry” Hampton, 27, was moved after a yearlong battle with the Illinois Department of Corrections. In multiple lawsuits, Hampton claimed she […]

The widow of a Philadelphia police officer who was gunned down 37 years ago in the line of duty is “outraged” over a judge’s decision last week to grant her husband’s killer a chance to appeal his conviction. On Thursday, Judge Leon Tucker granted Mumia Abu-Jamal another opportunity to appeal his 1981 conviction in the death of […]

A Florida boy penned a touching letter of condolence this week to the deputy who lost his K9 during a Christmas Eve shootout when the heroic dog died while saving two deputies’ lives — and officials have shared the note online. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office posted the letter from the boy, identified only […]

The illegal immigrant fugitive wanted in the murder of a California police officer is in custody Friday after being on the run for more than two days, Fox News confirms. Police arrested the man near Bakersfield, about 280 miles southeast of Newman, where Police Cpl. Ronil Singh was gunned down early Wednesday. The arrest was confirmed by […]

California authorities on Thursday revealed that the suspect in the fatal police officer shooting that occurred during a traffic stop earlier this week is in the U.S. illegally. The unidentified man allegedly behind the slaying of Newman police Cpl. Ronil Singh, 33, “is considered armed and dangerous,” Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said during a […]

Michelle Obama was voted America’s most admired woman in a Gallup poll, ousting Hillary Clinton from the top spot for the first time in 17 years. Since 1946, Gallup has been asking random survey participants to “name the man and woman living anywhere in the world today whom they admire most.” This year, 15 percent […]

The battle over border wall funding just went viral as one GoFundMe account is trying to raise money for President Trump’s controversial barrier, while another is looking for funds for ladders to scale the wall. Last week, conservative activist Brian Kolfage set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise private funds to pay for Trump’s border […]

A new investigation by the Illinois attorney general’s office has identified 500 priests and clergy members with credible claims of sexual abuse against them, all of whom have not been previously identified by church officials and some of whom are still active within the church. On Wednesday, outgoing Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan released the […]