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For many, living under the auspice of the Bible is not only seemingly impossible, but, perhaps, a ridiculous idea. You know the story, don’t you? A young Christian at college gets invited to a party and says, “I just can’t ...

ANDERSON, S.C. — A high school student was charged with assault and battery for throwing a paper airplane in class. If he is convicted of the charge, David Michael Elliott, 17, could be sentenced to 30 days in jail. Elliott ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An unidentified homeschool mother in Ohio faced up to 180 days in jail for not filing paperwork on time – even though she taught her child the entire time. The mother’s problems began when she withdrew her ...

  A judge sentenced a cancer patient to 90 days in jail for writing merely $200 worth of bad checks in what critics are calling an unconstitutional debtors prison. The man, Lee Robertson, was unable to pay the checks because ...

Alexander J. Bernstein spent 29 days in jail and lost everything because Pennsylvania state police could not tell the difference between homemade soap and cocaine. His friend, Anadel Cruz, had placed two large bars of homemade soap in the trunk ...

Two Minnesota men are facing more than a year in jail for selling a microbrew at a neighborhood bar. The two are facing felony charges for bootlegging (transporting alcohol without a license) by driving to Wisconsin to pick up 10 ...

More than 7,000 people may have been “disappeared,” held and interrogated in a secret and unconstitutional detention facility in the heart of America’s third-largest city. The Guardian newspaper is alleging that Chicago police operated a secret holding facility for more ...

An unpaid parking ticket proved fatal for Michigan resident David Stojcevski. A lawsuit alleges that Stojcevski was jailed after not paying a traffic ticket, and then died of drug withdrawal on the concrete floor of a cell at the Macomb ...

I told them [the Texas legislature] that the only answer to the crime problem is to take nonviolent criminals out of our prisons and make them pay back their victims with restitution. —Chuck Colson, Transforming Our World (1988) But modern ...

Trying to comply with the law apparently can land you in jail in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Becky Rehr went to the sheriff’s office to show authorities she had paid her dog license, but instead of being thanked for doing the right ...