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Henry County Sheriff Monte Belew said crews didn’t immediately find anything suspicious about the fire, calling it “a horrific, tragic accident.”
The Trump administration is blasting a Hawaii judge’s ruling blocking its revised travel ban in court documents asking a federal appeals court to overturn the decision.
In a filing with Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday, the Department of Justice says U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson second-guessed President Donald Trump’s national security judgment and wrongly relied on statements Trump made on the campaign trail to conclude the travel ban was motivated by religious discrimination.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that he has reached out to former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney about possibly running for the Senate — if a vacancy opens in Utah.
Kirkland operates a specialized housing unit for the state’s most dangerous inmates, an assessment and evaluation center for new inmates sentenced to more than three months, and a 24-bed infirmary.
The Justice Department had indicated that it intends to review all existing consent decrees to determine whether they will hinder efforts to fight violence crime.