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The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission has found that two Detroit judges, Demetria Brue and Debra Nance, violated judicial ethics when they used their positions to try to get a discount on bicycle rentals during a conference on Mackinac Island, threatened to accuse the owner of assault when he refused, and…

Michael Markellos and his mother own a 10-unit apartment complex in Chicago. He said his tax bill last year for all 10 units combined was $23,674. This year, the bill is $128,282 dollars, up 440 percent. "I was outraged. These are basically simple one-bedroom units for college graduates who work…

Rhode Island state Sen. Sam Bell has introduced a bill that would require all unvaccinated residents of the state pay a $50-a-month fine. The fine would apply to everyone eligible for the vaccine. Bell's bill would also force unvaccinated Rhode Islanders to pay double their state income taxes.

The Charlotte, North Carolina, Citizens Review Board has agreed to review Police Chief Johnny Jennings' decision not to punish officers who handcuffed a teacher at gunpoint. The officers were looking for the suspect in a stabbing, a woman the victim identified as Jaselyn Horne. The teacher's name is Jasmine Horne,…

A California law mandating that grocery stores and restaurants donate unused food to food banks took effect in January, and the state has already received more than 500 requests for waivers from rural towns and counties. Some local officials in rural areas said that they do not have the infrastructure…

A federal court has awarded Ju'Zema Goldring $1.5 million in a lawsuit Goldring brought against the city of Atlanta and police officers Vladimir Henry and Juan Restrepo. The two stopped Goldring for jaywalking, then arrested her on drug charges in 2015, claiming that the contents of a stress ball Goldring…

The Kansas City, Missouri, police department has agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Tyree Bell, who was 15, in 2016 when he was detained for three weeks for a crime he did not commit. Cops had responded to a call claiming three black males were on…

Lee County, Florida, Sheriff's Deputy Niko Irizarry has been charged with felony official misconduct after the sheriff's office said he conspired with two other men to plant drugs on a fourth individual. The two men planted drugs in the victim's car, then alerted Irizarry where the victim was driving so…

A Redmond, Washington, police officer who fatally shot Andrea Churna in 2020 while she was unarmed and lying on the floor of a hallway outside her apartment had been fired from the Whatcom County sheriff's office just a month before being hired in Redmond and about a year before shooting…