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Lawmakers say they share parents' outrage over video showing 10,000 drivers illegally passing Bridgeport buses. Now, they want to change state laws so it's easier for cities and towns to crack down. “We want to make sure that no child’s life is lost,” Sen. Herron Gaston (D-Bridgeport) said. The bill would allow towns to pass their own rules against passing buses, which would make it a civil

An attorney and Indigenous rights advocate involved in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests says the American justice system simply isn’t equipped to uphold treaty law. That’s partially why the demonstrations were so important, he said. “We don’t like our chances in court,” said Chase Iron Eyes, director and lead counsel for the Lakota People’s Law Project. Iron Eyes was called as a witness for

A 49-year-old man in Wisconsin will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing his girlfriend and her best friend, stabbing them both to death in a jealous rage because he saw them being intimate and “snapped.” A jury in Brown County deliberated for about an hour before finding Richard Wendell Sotka guilty on two counts of first-degree murder with a dangerous weapon in the slayings of

BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington man was released from custody after police said he attacked a pregnant woman and kicked officers on Saturday. Andres G. Calderon, 30, is charged with aggravated battery, aggravated battery to a pregnant person and a misdemeanor domestic battery. Assistant State's Attorney David Fitt told the court Calderon repeatedly punched a woman's face and pushed down on her