So what does all this tell us about justice? “All this” meaning the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell got 20 years on Tuesday and the next day, R. Kelly got 30. It was, make no mistake, an indisputably good thing to see those punishments handed down. And it’s hard to blame anyone who found ...
A Marion County couple has filed a civil suit in Monongalia County Circuit Court against the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and two of the department’s employees for gross negligence and violations of statute or regulations. The couple, who are being ...
While the Catholic Church has spent much of the last three decades wrestling with deeply painful revelations of priestly sexual abuse and the bishops’ callous disregard for the people in their care, many American Protestant denominations self-righteously wagged fingers at the Catholic ...
In its May 7 cold opening, Saturday Night Live took a jab at Justice Samuel Alito’s reference to a Dark Ages legal treatise. Host Benedict Cumberbatch, playing a man of some authority with a Medieval bowl cut, proposed eliminating abortion. The chatter among the skit’s characters — ...
A Morgantown man accused of sexually assaulting a female victim while she slept was released after posting bond. The victim reported the assault, which hat she stated occurred at a Walnut Street apartment in Morgantown, to the Morgantown Police Department on April 24. According to the ...
by Robin Abcarian A couple of things unrelated to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine recently caught my eye, reminding me that while this conflict will eventually end, the violence visited upon women by loved ones is a war that endures. I say “women” knowing full well ...