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Eight police officers surrounded a couple’s home and took their seven-year-old son away because of a disagreement with school officials over ADHD and mental health, the parents say. Christian and Katie Maple lost custody of seven-year-old Camden because they disagreed ...

HEFLIN, Ala. — A couple is charging that social workers took their newborn the day after he was born because of their alternative lifestyle and religious beliefs. “They said our view was dangerous,” Christian Holm said of social workers for ...

  Innocent citizens whose property is seized by police in Michigan have to pay cash for the chance to get it back. Even worse, there’s no guarantee that those who pay the cash will get their belongings returned. Homeowners whose ...

It is possible to fight the Internal Revenue Service and its forfeiture rules — and win. The agency has agreed to return $153,907.99 it seized from North Carolina convenience store owner Khalid Quran in June 2014. The IRS took the ...

Can the federal government take all of your money for no reason and then refuse to give all of it back when they realize they made a mistake? If a new case out of North Carolina is any indication, the ...

Read the original story here. The off-grid parents of the children known as the “Kentucky 10” did not receive the news they had hoped to hear at a Monday hearing and won’t be getting their children back this week. Joe ...

To read the initial story about the family, click here.  The off-grid, homeschool mother of the 10 children who were seized has spoken out on Facebook in defense of her family’s self-sufficient life – and she’s receiving plenty of support. ...

Federal agents seized all of the money in an organic farmer’s bank account even though he and his family were never charged with a crime – and simply because they made an innocent mistake in depositing their money. Randy and ...

Two young homeschooled children were taken from their mother because of a social worker’s improper reading of a blood test – and then kept in state custody for weeks even though the state’s own doctors said the children were perfectly ...

An Iowa widow faces criminal charges and saw $19,000 seized from her bank account by the IRS simply because she deposited her husband’s legally earned money in a way that allegedly avoided federal reporting requirements. Federal prosecutors filed charges against ...