In the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday, President Obama announced the plan to draw down the military forces in Afghanistan to 9,800 from its current level of 32,000 by the beginning of 2015. The president continued saying, “By the end of 2015 we will have reduced that presence by roughly half, and will have consolidated our […]
As the drugs used for lethal injection becomes scarcer and scarcer with the advent of European-led boycotts of drug sales for that purpose, Tennessee’s governor Bill Haslam signed legislation in that state to bring back executions via the electric chair. The electric chair measure, sponsored by State Sen. Ken Yager, that sailed through both the […]
California man, 41-year-old Isidro Garcia, has been charged with one felony count of forcible rape, three felony counts of lewd acts on a minor, and one felony count of kidnapping to commit a sexual offense after being arrested during a traffic stop on Wednesday. His arrest on those charges came after the daughter of his former […]
Authorities have released documents pertaining to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, including notes that Tsarnaev jotted down while hiding in a boat in Watertown as the massive manhunt took place all around him. Court documents were filed by United States attorney’s office on Wednesday that included those notes. Tsarnaev you wrote while in hiding, “I’m jealous […]