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Supreme Court Recertifies Summit County Specialized Docket
Summit County Common Pleas Court’s specialized docket for mental health recently met the standards to earn its final recertification from the Supreme Court of Ohio.
The HOPE Court specialized docket stands for healing, opportunity, progress, and empowerment. It was established in 2018 by Judge Alison M. Breaux. She still p ... (full story)
Man pleads guilty to plotting attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna
WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria (AP) — A man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago pleaded guilty as his trial began on April 28, his lawyer said.
The plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still ca ... (full story)
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Most sunscreens harm corals. Here's what you can do
Every time you go for a swim, some of your sunscreen gets left behind.
An estimated 25% of applied sunscreen washes off during recreational water activities, releasing some 5,000 tons annually in reef areas alone, according to a study in Environmental Health Perspectives. That’s equivalent to the weight of about 1,000 elep ... (full story)
Southern Poverty Law Center says its informant program was not kept secret from law enforcement
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center told a federal court on April 28 that law enforcement agencies have long known that the nonprofit paid informants to report on the movements of hate groups, rejecting assertions by the Trump administration that the nonprofit steered money to the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist ... (full story)
Inside the world’s largest art heist when over $500M of paintings were stolen from a Boston museum
BOSTON (AP) — For decades, the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — now valued at more than $500 million — has remained unsolved.
It remains the largest art theft in history — far surpassing more recent museum thefts, including a daylight heist at the Louvre involving far f ... (full story)