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Fallout from Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force scandal continues. In this iteration, a man pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a gun that was…

Midwesterners love to debate what is in the Midwest, including whether and which Plains states are Midwestern. While Midwest purists and maximalists may disagree about where Nebraska fits, they would all agree that the Cornhusker State is definitely not on the West Coast. So why is this former…

Cop in Frederick, Okla. (pop. 4k) arrests man for lightly tapping him on the cheek. Though the cop knows the man's mother lives three blocks away, he insists on towing the man's vehicle (a tow truck). Yikes! An inventory search of the truck yields an M-16 rifle that the man, a felon, is not…

The beleaguered D.C. crime lab has regained partial accreditation after nearly three years of being unable to process evidence fully (access full article).

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences’…

Muslim man in Ohio prison alleges that prison officials failed to accommodate his observance of Ramadan while making comparable accommodations for Christians and Jews, and that officials retaliated against him when he exercised his First Amendment rights to complain about them by threatening to…

Pennsylvania man gets pulled over and scarfs down a bag of cocaine and fentanyl to hide it from police. Police—unconvinced by the man's claim that the powdery substance around his mouth was left over from a candy cigarette—detain him. Ignoring the obvious danger to the man's health and in…

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Joe Biden's…

Today, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is granting clemency to 11 individuals who are serving long sentences for non-violent drug offenses (DOJ press release available…

Pennsylvania police officer stops a black man for minor traffic violations. The cop first does a routine warrant check, which turns up nothing, but then spends an additional couple of minutes on a criminal-history check on the driver and passenger, discovering both have criminal histories. He…

Jones County, Iowa man—who is suspected of fencing stolen property—is using a trailer on the north side of the road. Defendant is another man living in a house on the south side of the road. Police have no evidence the two even know each other, let alone that stolen property is being stored in…