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Lindsay Clancy trial spotlights psychiatric hospital stay before she killed her 3 children

Lindsay Clancy 's murder trial zeroed in Friday on the nearly five days that the Massachusetts mother spent in a psychiatric hospital a few weeks before she killed her three children. Her stay is a key chapter in both the prosecution and defense narratives about her mental state when she strangled the children in their suburban home and then jumped out a second-story window. In questioning one of her McLean Hospital psychiatrists on Friday, a prosecutor underscored that Clancy denied to hospital clinicians that she wanted to hurt anyone else or planned to kill herself. Clancy's lawyer, ...

Justice Samuel Alito confirms he’s staying on the Supreme Court for another term

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirmed Friday he's staying on the nation's highest court, weeks after a swell of speculation about a possible retirement. "Obviously, I'm here for another term," Alito, 76, said in an interview published in The Wall Street Journal's editorial section. Discussion of Alito's future hit a fever pitch in June, when a mistake by a veteran Supreme Court reporter at National Public Radio resulted in the erroneous publication of a previously prepared retirement story. The story was quickly retracted and the court confirmed it was ...

Remains of 56 people found improperly stored and decomposing at Chicago funeral home

CHICAGO (AP) — The remains of 56 people were found improperly stored and decomposing Thursday at a Chicago funeral home run by a couple who previously operated a crematory that was similarly shut down because of mishandled remains, authorities said. Illinois state officials, meanwhile, suspended the license of one of the funeral home's directors, alleging bodies were being kept in an unrefrigerated area in "deplorable conditions." The discovery came months after neighborhood residents began noticing a "stench" emanating from the funeral home, which led some to complain to the ...

Appeals court rules Trump can’t build White House ballroom without congressional approval

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must stop construction of the $400 million White House ballroom because Congress has not approved the project, a decision he blasted as "unjust" while vowing to appeal it to the nation's highest court. Trump doesn't have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom where the White House's East Wing stood before he ordered its demolition last fall, according to the decision by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

Ohio sees second week of ‘significant’ increases in cyclosporiasis cases

Ohio has seen its second straight week of “significant increases” in cases of cyclosporiasis, the parasite that has been connected to leafy greens, and to severe diarrhea throughout the U.S, according to the state’s health director. The Ohio Department of Health shows the state has seen nearly 4,000 cases since June 1. The highest numbers come out of Lucas County, which has 553 cases to date since the beginning of the summer. Cuyahoga County has a reported 457 cases, and Wood County comes in third with 446 cases since June 1. While Ohio hasn’t caught up to the numbers seen in ...

Trump was never funny

In a display of Stockholm Syndrome, the White House Correspondents' Association invited Donald Trump to be the keynote speaker at their annual festival of self-appreciation. Because he is who he is, he did not take the opportunity to do the kind of gentle press ribbing that past presidents have engaged in, and he certainly declined to engage in the self-deprecating humor that charmed audiences in the old days. Instead, he delivered a string of puerile insults that would be beneath a fifth grader. The tuxedo and ball gown-clad lads and ladies were forced to sit through meandering ...