News of the day from across the nation, Aug. 13
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was one of a handful of local elected officials across the country that stopped issuing marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in June.
“Kids for cash”: A federal judge has approved a $4.75 million settlement between a businessman at the center of a Pennsylvania juvenile justice scandal and youths sent to his detention centers by a corrupt judge.
Robert Powell was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in the scandal that became known as “kids for cash,” a kickback scheme that led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to vacate the convictions of thousands of juveniles.
Powell testified he was forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to former Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella Jr. and Michael Conahan in return for their support of his two private juvenile facilities.
An ex-convict charged with fatally shooting a Memphis police officer during a struggle told a judge Wednesday that he is indigent and he was appointed a public defender.
Police said when Bolton interrupted a drug deal, Wilbourn took out a gun and shot him multiple times.
Texas inmate Daniel Lee Lopez got his wish Wednesday when he was executed for fatally striking a police lieutenant with an SUV during a chase in 2009.
The lethal injection at the Huntsville prison was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from Lopez’s attorneys, who disregarded his desire to die and disagreed with lower court rulings that found he was competent to make that decision.