“This is so cruel and pointless,” said one advocate. “Texas and other ‘pro-life’ states force women to carry doomed pregnancies for months… only to watch their babies die.” By taking away from Texas residents the option of terminating a pregnancy in the case of a fetal abnormality when they passed Senate Bill 8 in 2021, […]
“The only question left,” said Bill McKibben, “is whether our legal system will recognize these crimes—and this report shows there’s a good chance the answer could be yes.” A U.S.-based consumer watchdog unveiled a legal memo Wednesday detailing how local or state prosecutors could bring criminal charges against Big Oil for deaths from extreme heat made more likely by […]
At 4:03 pm on Friday, troopers received an SOS from a satellite communications device and State and Wildlife Troopers immediately responded to the location where the SOS signal was initiated along the Denali Highway. When they arrived, they discovered that 70-year-old Bend, Oregon resident Glenn Cantor, had suffered fatal injuries in a snowmobile collision. A […]
On Tuesday Alaska State Troopers were notified of a structure fire with a fatality in the community of Kasigluk. According to the AST report. 36-year-old Kyle V. White, a resident of that community had, because he was highly intoxicated, been taken into custody and placed in a holding cell. While in custody, a fire in […]