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The Bow School District agreed to a judgment declaring it violated spectators' First Amendment rights by barring pink "XX" wristbands at a 2024 girls' soccer game, and to pay $275,000 in fees and costs.
A federal indictment accuses Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy Paul Jessen Jr. of conspiring to commit extortion by accepting goods and services from a defense attorney in exchange for compromising DWI cases.
The Justice Department says a VA Community Care Program employee and a clinic CEO, both of Orlando, were sentenced to prison for a kickback and bribery conspiracy that steered veterans to the CEO's clinic.
A construction executive who pleaded guilty to bribing a former Connecticut school construction official received probation, while the official was convicted on 21 felony counts and sentenced in absentia to seven years after fleeing to Greece.
A former Kokomo, Indiana, police officer was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of violating a minor's constitutional rights, lying to investigators and deleting a messaging app.
A former Jones County, Mississippi deputy chancery clerk pleaded guilty to three counts of alteration of records tied to $13,356.89 in public money the State Auditor's Office says she converted for personal use.
Suspended Midland County Judge Terry Johnson will resign and repay $50,000 in salary to settle a lawsuit seeking his removal over allegations he abused his office by sharing a political commentator's sensitive information.
A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the Clean Water Act and Administrative Procedure Act when it approved a Nevada company's gold dredging plan in Safety Sound and the Bonanza Channel, according to Courthouse News.
Records released in a FOIA settlement show the U.S. Postal Service's iCOP program monitored and circulated bulletins on planned protests in 2020 and 2021, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
A former IT contractor at the National Reconnaissance Office, State Department and Justice Department pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit national defense information to Ethiopia, the Justice Department says.
A Minnesota federal court granted a preliminary injunction ordering the government to return a Nicaraguan man ICE sent to the Central African Republic, finding officers likely lacked authority to detain or deport him.
The FHFA's inspector general alleges in a report to Congress that the agency led by Bill Pulte refused to provide records for congressionally mandated reviews and sharply cut the watchdog's funding, which the agency disputes.
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