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Money matters in candidates

It’s midterms crunch time, so we are hearing endless political promises from all candidates. My hope is that with so much talk about affordability and economic growth, a voter or two would raise their hand and ask about price controls and credit card caps. These might seem such minuscule topics to interrupt some political grandstanding and drama of the headlines, but Congress is having these discussions right now, and far too many of our elected representatives can’t bring themselves to understand that price controls hurt the middle class and hardworking people who live paycheck to ...

Lessons to be learned from Clancy case

The trial of Lindsay Clancy forces us to confront a tragedy almost beyond human comprehension: A mother killed her three young children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — inside their Massachusetts home. We must begin with those children. They were innocent, vulnerable and entitled to the protection of the person they trusted most. Their names and stolen futures must not disappear beneath arguments about psychiatric diagnoses, prescription drugs or criminal law. Whatever verdict the jury reaches, three beautiful young lives were taken, a father’s world ...

Clancy trial ends with no verdict again

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Thursday in a dramatic sixth day of deliberations, after the jury’s foreperson sent the judge a note saying a single juror won’t follow the court’s instructions about reasonable doubt. Details of the jury room conflict weren’t revealed by the judge and only briefly discussed in open court, but they raised the possibility that a single holdout was standing in the way of a verdict on whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three children. The jury ...

Mail-in voting limits appealed

BOSTON — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reject an order by a federal judge that halts it from implementing a new rule regulating mail ballots, hours after being unable to tell that judge whether the computer system that would govern the entire project was operational yet. The administration filed its appeal the afternoon before mail ballots were scheduled to be sent out by North Carolina, which on Friday kicks off a wave of states shipping ballots out for the rapidly approaching midterm election. Its appeal was part of a flurry of last-minute ...

Where is the gold?

ICE officer turns himself in to feds

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have charged a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown earlier this year, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Christian Castro, the officer who authorities say shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg in January, has been charged with making false statements to federal investigators, according to the person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation and spoke on ...