"Defund the police" may be a rallying cry for some, but what's happened in real life? Just the opposite: The data for 2021-22 represents my best estimate put together from a variety of sources. The number of police officers does seem to have been cut back in 2021, but not because of George Floyd. It ...continue reading "Defund the police? Hardly."
Alex Newhook scored on his birthday for the second straight season, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the St. Louis Blues 4-2 on Saturday for their seventh win in eight games.
Television frontman Tom Verlaine has died at age 73, The New York Times reports. Jesse Paris Smith, daughter of Verlaine's contemporary and onetime partner Patti Smith, tells the Times that…
NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) -- A man who had gone missing was found dead near a creek area in Normal Friday night. At approximately 10 p.m. Friday, Normal police found the victim, 21-year-old Matthew Listman of Libertyville, IL., at the intersection of W. Summit and N. Main Streets in Normal. Listman was reported missing since Thursday [...]
Mass shootings have commanded public attention on a disturbingly frequent basis across the U.S. But rather than provoking a unified response from elected officials, each additional shooting seems to be widening the political divide on gun policy among states.