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Month: September 2023

Pentagon working to restore benefits to LGBTQ+ veterans forced out under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is beginning a new effort to contact former service members who may have been forced out of the military and deprived of years of benefits due to policies targeting their sexual orientation, starting with those targeted under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Under that

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Following 72-hour search, police find 3 missing foster children at grandma’s house

By HANNAH HILYARD Click here for updates on this story     MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WISN) — Criminal charges are being reviewed following the disappearance of three Milwaukee foster children as WISN 12 News has learned police found the kids Monday at their grandmother’s house. Milwaukee police first alerted the public to the disappearance of Cedrion, Mercedes and

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Connecticut agrees to a $25 million settlement in the Henry Lee evidence fabrication case

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s attorney general has agreed to a $25.2 million settlement with two men who spent decades in prison for murder, based partly on evidence presented by famed forensic scientist Henry Lee that a judge later found was fabricated. Ralph “Ricky” Birch and Shawn Henning were convicted

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