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Updates:
1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest
A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.
A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
R. Kelly is sentenced to 30 years in prison
SCOTUS:
Elections/Voting/Campaigning:
COVID-19/Covidiots:
“But, but kids don’t get COVID-19!,” said Joe, the illiterate, ignorant, malignant, racist MAGAt who helped get his White Supremacist BFF killed with all his COVID-19 fake cures and vaccine lies:
January 6, Updates:
Craven Assholes:
Today’s Craven Asshole Award Goes to This Guy:
12-Year-Old Incest Victims Should Birth Dad’s Child, House Speaker Gunn Says
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says abortion should be illegal even for a 12-year-old rape victim carrying her father or uncle’s child. He made the remark to reporters in the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, allowing state abortion bans to take effect.
State News:
Names, addresses of every CCW holder in California exposed, Sheriff’s Office confirms
The names, addresses, and license types of every CCW holder in California were exposed as part of a data breach suffered by the state Department of Justice, according to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office.
Stimulus Checks: Which States Are Sending Tax Rebates to Residents?
California, for one, is disbursing up to $1,050 in “inflation relief” payments to eligible taxpayers.
Ohio’s Finest:
Ohio Man Sentenced to Prison for Threatening Reproductive Health Services Facility and an Individual Patient
An Ohio man was sentenced in federal court today to one year and one day in prison and three years of supervised release for interstate threats; and concurrently to 10 months in prison and one year of supervised release for Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act charges, for threatening to bring a bomb to a local reproductive health services facility.
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Brime, 26, of Columbus, also threatened to kill a patient whom he believed was seeking reproductive health services, specifically an abortion, at the clinic.
