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Ex-Democratic Party Chair Sentenced for Child Sex Abuse

Former Erie County Democratic Chairman Steven Pigeon was sentenced to 364 days imprisonment Friday over charges of first-degree sexual assault against a child. The upstate New York Democrat will also be required to register as a sex offender as part of a plea agreement, The Buffalo News reported. The sentencing came a month after Pigeon […]

Judge Makes Shock Ruling Over Ban on Prayer and Bibles

The U.K. High Court upheld a special order that criminalizes prayer and Scripture reading in front of an abortion clinic in Bournemouth, England, according to court documents. According to the BBC, Christian campaigners lost a legal challenge regarding the enforcement of a Public Spaces Protection Order banning prayers outside the abortion clinic. The local governing […]

Landlord Sentenced to Life in Prison for What He Did to Two of His Tenants

On Dec. 8, convicted murderer Chad Allen Reed, 56, of Battle Creek, Michigan, learned his fate. According to WXMI in West Michigan, Reed received two life sentences for the October 2020 slayings of his tenants, 34-year-old Joseph Soule and Soule’s girlfriend, 31-year-old Jaclyn Lepird. Trinity McAllister, Lepird’s sister, applauded the judge’s sentence, which included life […]