Robert Card, who officials believe to be responsible for the mass shooting in the northern U.S. state of Maine, has been found dead, state officials said Friday. Michael Sauschuk, the Maine commissioner of public safety, told a news conference that Card died from an “apparent, self-inflicted gunshot wound.” Governor Janet Mills said Card’s body was […]
“This is unacceptable,” said the gun control advocacy group Giffords in response to the massacre. “Our country is being held hostage by a gun lobby that makes record profits off record gun sales & gun violence. In yet the latest mass shooting involving a gunman and a military-style assault rifle in the United States, between […]
“We are witnessing one of the most extreme Supreme Courts in modern history rewrite the most basic social commitments of our society,” said the head of one of the nation’s largest teachers unions. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday warned that the court’s right-wing majority had further eroded the nation’s bedrock laws separating church […]
(Fairbanks, AK) – A Fairbanks jury Thursday convicted a Maine man for killing and sexually assaulting 20-year-old Sophie Sergie in a dormitory on the University of Alaska at Fairbanks campus in April 1993. Jurors deliberated for three days before finding Steven Downs, 47, guilty of Murder in the First Degree and Sexual Assault. Downs is being […]