Minor criminal charges filed for speaking, kissing
Were racist remarks made against a former Bears tight end in a wealthy north suburb? Did the school file trumped-up charges against him?
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Texas H.S. football players assault ref
A viral video has landed 2 football players from a San Antonio, Texas, HS in hot water for assaulting a referee during a game.
Can you fly a drone over a school?
We wonder whether it would be allowed to fly a drone over a school. You can't fly them over airports, but we're not sure about schools.
Ky. clerk won’t issue same-sex marriage licenses
A court clerk in Kentucky says signing a same-sex marriage license would violate her Apostolic Christian conscience.
Should you take selfies in a ballot booth?
A law in N.H. seeks to protect people from having to prove they voted a certain way, but it may ban speech that should be protected.
Man arrested for sexual assault of 14-year-old girl
A man from an affluent suburb of Chicago has been charged with setting up a gang rape of a 14-year-old Chicago girl.
Mich. parent can carry handgun into school
A circuit court in Michigan is allowing a licensed owner of a handgun to carry it into an elementary school.
Disciplined N.J. student was not a bully
N.J. parents sued a school for labeling their son as a bully when all he did was identify a girl who had lice.
No change in NAEP 8th-grade social studies
NAEP has released data from the 2014 social studies examination for 8th graders in the US: no significant change from the results in 2010.
DNA can be used to investigate unrelated crimes
The 4th Amendment, protection against unreasonable searches, took center stage in a Md. case about police using DNA to solve unrelated crimes.