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The phone call from my mother-in-law last week at first felt like another that had come from her on a summer morning seven years ago. That call in 2014 was the kind you pray you don't receive but know you eventually will, most likely more than once, because we all do in some form or another. It was the kind of call where the floor falls out from under you, where you feel the need to steady y...

Two days after David Neal Cox lay strapped to a gurney and was put to death by lethal injections last month, his lawyers hand-delivered a letter to the district attorney’s office in Tupelo, Miss., that could solve a 14-year-old cold case. Cox, 50, confessed to the 2007 slaying of his sister-in-law, Felicia Cox, and detailed where he buried her body, District Attorney John Weddle announced Mon...

Rohingya people wait in line for supplies at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Photographer: Ismail Ferdous/Bloomberg A handful of U.K. and U.S. law firms have taken roles to advise refugees of the Rohingya genocide in legal proceedings against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, in which the refugees accuse the social media giant of allowing the spread of ...

From left, Tonora Jones, whose daughter was the victim of random gun violence; Stephanie Shadden, director of photography and editor; Jessica Walden, producer and creative development; actor Julius Render; Judge Marc Treadwell, who serves the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia; actor Thomas Zachary Rutland; Karen Lambert, president of the Peyton Anderson Foundation; Middle...

Dear Prudence Read what Prudie had to say in Part 2 of this week’s live chat. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by master1305/iStock/Getty Images Plus and Ljupco/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Jenée Desmond-Harris is online weekly to chat live with readers. Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat. Q. I WILL be the one in white: I am getting married for the second time to a wonderfu...

Dick Costolo, former chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., arrives ahead of the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9, 2019. Scott Goldsmith left FisherBroyles for stealth security startup New GC previously led the TCPA practice at Dorsey & Whitney HiveWatch Inc., a physical security startup, has hired FisherBroyles commercial and privacy lit...

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South Unit of the Central Florida Reception Center in Orlando earlier this year. Life in prison should be reserved for the worst of the worst — murderers, chronic violent offenders and those who commit the most serious sex crimes. But Florida condemns people to life sentences for far lesser crimes and provides them no meaningful chance at ever getting out. The state’s so-called “two strikes” ...

Director Matthew Penn, of 'Law & Order' fame, finds his muse for his next film in Housatonic  Berkshire Eagle

GRAND HAVEN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – There are continued school closures in West Michigan due to copycat threats in the wake of the Oxford High School shootings last week. Grand Haven Area Public Schools and Zeeland Public Schools will be closed Tuesday as law enforcement investigate threats. Over 100 districts statewide, including several West Michigan districts, have had to close due to copycat t...