Frank Mooney
May 7, 2025 — Millions of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries across the United States will receive two payments in May 2025, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA). The double payment is the result of a standard calendar adjustment, as June 1 falls on a Sunday this year. Under SSA policy, when the first … Read more
On Tuesday, Rodney Hinton Jr., who is accused of killing a Hamilton County sheriff’s officer on May 2, the day after his son was killed by Cincinnati police, showed up for a bond hearing in Ohio. There was a disturbance in the courtroom. Judge Tyrone Yates in Hamilton County said that Hinton, who is accused … Read more
At a petrol station near Clay Jackson’s home in Dallas last month, a worker asked him if he could help an immigrant family in the area with something legal. A family with a child who is a U.S. citizen wasn’t sure what to do after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid caught the father. Jackson … Read more
Officers’ actions at two houses in the San Fernando Valley are being looked into by the Los Angeles Police Department. The officers were investigating reports of violent assaults but did not find the victims because they did not go inside. In both cases, people who called 911 said they heard or saw a violent, ongoing … Read more
On Tuesday, a federal judge felt bad for the thousands of government workers who were fired by the Trump administration earlier this year. But he also wasn’t sure if putting them back to work was the right thing to do and asked what the courts could do in the end. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson said … Read more
After being held in a Cobb County jail for 45 days, Mahendra Patel was released on a $10,000 bond. He is facing attempted kidnapping and other charges after a mother said he tried to take her 2-year-old son from her at a Georgia Walmart. “I’m going to give this man a bond.” “He should be … Read more
WASHINGTON — A well-known lawyer in Washington, D.C., sued the Trump administration on Monday over the revocation of his security clearance. He said it was “improper political retribution” that makes it impossible for him to keep working as a lawyer for clients in secret national security cases. The case, which was filed in federal court … Read more
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. — A well-known civil rights lawyer, Ben Crump, says he will sue a former Florida sheriff’s deputy and others for the shooting death of U.S. Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, in May 2024. Eddie Duran, a former deputy sheriff for Okaloosa County, shot and killed Fortson at the door of his … Read more
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Supporters of progressive ideas have sued in federal court against new rules that make it harder for citizen-led proposals to get on the ballot in Florida. The court challenge is being brought by Florida Decides Healthcare, the group working to get a measure on the 2026 ballot that would expand Medicaid in … Read more
The black bear that killed a man and a dog in South Florida was being looked for by police on Monday. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a statement that the attack happened in the country east of Naples, just south of the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area. Wildlife police said the … Read more