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Manchester police chief resigns weeks after being placed on paid leave

10 months 1 week ago
The city of Manchester accepted the resignation of Police Chief Scott Will on Monday, weeks after he was placed on paid leave due to an ongoing investigation. Will was placed on administrative leave in July as part of an "ongoing independent investigation," but the city has not provided any information on why he was being investigated. When announcing his placement on leave last month, Manchester communications specialist Darin Wernig only said that the investigation did not concern unauthorized…
Sam Clancy

Lunchtime Photo

10 months 1 week ago
This is the shoe fence near Rice, California. It was initially a shoe tree of obscure origin, where travelers would hang pairs of shoes, but the tree burned down in 2003 and was replaced by a "shoe garden." It's a garden only in the loosest sense of the word: a bare patch of ground about ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
Kevin Drum

Federal appeals court declares Missouri’s ‘Second Amendment Preservation Act’ unconstitutional

10 months 1 week ago
A Missouri law declaring some federal gun regulations “invalid” is unconstitutional because it violates the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause, a federal appeals court in St. Louis unanimously ruled on Monday. A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a district court ruling from last year that blocked Missouri from enforcing the Second Amendment Preservation Act, a law passed in 2021 that penalizes police for enforcing certain federal gun laws. Among the law’s…
Jason Hancock

Judge Blocks Missouri AG’s Elon-Inspired Censorial Vindictive ‘Investigation’ Into Media Matters

10 months 1 week ago
Yet another federal judge has blocked a censorial, vindictive government “investigation” into Media Matters for having the temerity to report on seeing ads on ExTwitter showing up next to neo-Nazi content. To recap: in November, Media Matters released an article written by Eric Hananoki. The article detailed an investigation in which they found ads from […]
Mike Masnick

Federal appeals court declares Missouri’s ‘Second Amendment Preservation Act’ unconstitutional

10 months 1 week ago
A Missouri law declaring some federal gun regulations “invalid” is unconstitutional because it violates the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause, a federal appeals court in St. Louis unanimously ruled on Monday.  A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a district court ruling from last year that blocked Missouri from enforcing the […]
Jason Hancock