With Payments to College Athletes, Another Fight Looms for Women Despite gains, women still lag far behind men in the little-regulated industry of college sports. A proposed revenue-sharing deal could create new clashes over equality. 'Serial slingshot shooter’ found dead days after he’s arrested for terrorizing neighborhood An 81-year-old "serial slingshot shooter" from California who terrorized his neighborhood for ten years was found dead just days after his release from prison. Ex-prison guard tried to free a killer who saved his life. It didn’t work. Guy Wicklander was working as a corrections employee in 1999 when a prisoner attacked him. Peter Shoen, who had been convicted of beating his wife to death, intervened. |
Crime victims may get fewer services as federal aid drops. States weigh how to help Groups that assist crime victims across the United States are bracing for significant financial pain after the amount available from a major federal victim services fund plunged $700 million this year. 100 years ago, US citizenship for Native Americans came without voting rights in swing states An act of Congress a century ago guaranteed citizenship to wary Native Americans in an age of forced assimilation and marked the outset of a long, arduous journey to secure voting rights that were denied for several more decades |