By William J. Ford
Criminal justice advocates welcomed a Senate bill that would sharply reduce the number of crimes for which a juvenile could be charged as an adult.
Senate Bill 422 by Sen. William C. Smith Jr. (D-Montgomery) would raise the age at which a juvenile would be tried as an adult from 14 in the current law, to 16. It would also eliminate a number of crimes for which 16-year-olds are currently made eligible to be charge as adults.
By Paige Gross
The city’s police department had sent images from the security footage at the Detroit watch store to Michigan State Police to run through its facial recognition technology. An expired driver’s license photo of Williams in the state police database was a possible match, the technology said.
COLUMBIA — Marion Bowman died Friday night by lethal injection in the country’s first execution this year.
His recorded time of death was 6:27 p.m.
The roughly 30 protesters outside the prison gates sang “Amazing Grace,” Bowman’s favorite hymn, after receiving confirmation of his fate.
By Sam Stockard
In one of the most hotly-contested questions in modern Tennessee political history, the legislature narrowly approved a $430 million private-school voucher program that critics say will grow quickly to $1 billion and endanger the state’s budget.
The House voted 54-44 in favor of Gov. Bill Lee’s voucher initiative, with 20 Republicans opposing the measure, only four more than required for passage.
President Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on Nov. 14, 2024. Kennedy, 71, ran for president last cycle, initially as a Democratic challenger to Joe Biden, but switched to run as an independent in October 2023. He suspended his campaign on Aug. 23, 2024, and endorsed Trump.
