Gerardo Gutierrez, 70, repeatedly and unsuccessfully pleaded with his supervisors to be allowed to wear a mask while working at a Publix Super Market deli in Florida. He died in April, just a month after a co-worker exposed him to the coronavirus. The family of…
Lisa Marie Montgomery is 52 and mentally ill, living on a cocktail of psychotropic drugs that only occasionally help her recognize the reality of her federal prison cell. She is also the only woman — the first in nearly 70 years — to face an…
Fights over beach access rights are nothing new. These battles usually take place in the courtroom, but sometimes can become physical. This summer, a dispute between two New Jersey beachgoers erupted into a physical altercation with one man stabbing the other. At issue was whether…
UPDATE (Dec. 8, 2020): As the Trump campaign continues to lose in court, its efforts to change the election results are shifting to pressuring state legislators and top state officials to change their presidential slate of electors to pro-Trump members. President Donald J. Trump is…
President Donald J. Trump’s musing this month that he might “leave the country” if he loses his reelection bid mirrors the real actions thousands of people took after he was elected in 2016. Although Trump says he was joking, the country’s bitter political divide is…
COVID-19 infection and mortality rates in prisons are much higher than in the general population, according to a national study, as crowded environments act like a petri dish for exponential growth of the coronavirus. “Because prisons have more people incarcerated than they were designed to…